hi there it's Asiya and today I want to share my tips on IELTS listening which
I've accumulated by taking the exam myself and also helping to prepare my
students who come to study in UK universities seven years ago that was
before I came to London I've got 9.0 in IELTS listening even though my
overall score was 7.5 and I think that's a great section where you
also can get ahead okay let's get started
the questions become more difficult closer to the end of the listening
section so don't panic if you don't understand something or you miss an
answer the thing is here you only need to answer 23 questions out of 40 to get
been 6 and 30 questions out of 40 to get been 7 so the reason margin for error
keep instructions in your head for example right now more than three words
or choose the correct letter it may seem easy but during the exam it's easy to
forget what the task was your options may look like that and if you write the
word bread instead of a letter a it will be marked as an incorrect answer
IELTS is tough so keep concentrated there is a task where you need to write no more
than three words or it may be no more than two words make sure you remember
how many words you can write in the listening section don't write your
answers on the answer sheet straightaway you will have 10 minutes at the end of
the task to transfer your answers so work on the question sheet and cross out
any incorrect options straightaway spelling counts when you're transferring
your answers to the answer sheet make sure you write them down carefully and
it's easy to understand preferable in capital letters here you need to pay
attention to singular and plural form of nouns for example cat or cats? these are two
different words also pay attention to prepositions if you have a sentence with
missing words then when you find those missing words the sentence should become
grammatically correct for example what is the answer at the museum or just
museum in our example it will be at the Museum what about British and American
spelling in IELTS both are fine as long as your answers
correct during the listening section there will be several shot breaks
use those breaks to look through the coming questions and try to memorize as
many questions as you can on the current page don't go to the next page
once the recording starts it will be easier for you to recognize answers when
you already know your questions try to predict answers what are you looking for
is it a noun a name of a place a number or maybe a verb if you can imagine what
an answer would look like it will be easier for you to hear it even when you
don't understand some of the words in the recording the questions might be
tricky because the information is presented in a misleading way let me
give you an example you are looking for a place of a meeting and you hear a
conversation between two people shall we meet at the library okay we'll be there
ah even the library closed today okay see
you in the coffee shop instead you see first you could think it's a library but
it turned out to be a coffee shop make sure you listen till the end try to keep
an eye on two questions of the current question and the next one sometimes you
may miss an answer and you should be able to quickly recognize it and switch
to the next question on time if you don't know an answer make your best
guess sometimes you can guess right and there are no penalties for incorrect
answers when preparing for IELTS listen to British Canadian and Australian
accents those are quite different and all are used in IELTS listening now I have
a question for you what do you find most challenging in IELTS listening let me
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