Okay so what's the best way to prepare for your IELTS test well the first thing
that you need to do is you need to establish the specific reasons why you
are not getting the score that you need there will be very very specific things
related to grammar vocabulary task achievement coherence and cohesion
fluency pronunciation depending on what part of the test you need to work on
there will be very specific things that are causing you to get a lower score
than you're hoping for so what you need to do is you need to figure out exactly
which areas are causing you to get that lower score so for the reading and
listening tests that will mean doing practice tests looking at your own
mistakes and figuring out things yourself. For the speaking and writing
parts you'll need to get a really good teacher to look at your writing, listen
to your speaking and they will be able to tell you the very specific things
that are causing you to get 6, 6.5 and the things that you need to do in order to
move to a 7 but that's just the first stage the second stage is you need
to learn how to do those things so if you need a band 7 you need to
learn how to do band 7 things. So identify your weaknesses and then learn
how to turn those into strengths but that's just the second stage the third
stage is you need to do those things so many of you will learn what to do but
you'll never actually do those things for example you might watch a video on
how to paraphrase but you'll never actually practice paraphrasing so
identify your weaknesses first stage, second stage learn what to do, third
stage do that thing. But that's just the third stage the fourth stage is you need
feedback on doing that thing so for example you might identify the
paraphrasing is an issue you learn how to do that you try a few paraphrases
and then you get a teacher to look at your paraphrasing and give you feedback
on your work because if you don't follow that crucial step then you're not going
to know if you've learnt how to do it properly or not you're not going to know
if you have made lots of mistakes or everything's good
so that is the second final stage the final stage is improve. Take action on
the feedback that your teacher gives you and improve it and learn how to do that
thing properly. So it goes around in a circle find out what your your
weaknesses are learn how to turn those into strengths do those things get
feedback and improve and then if you apply that strategy to every part of
your IELTS preparation you're going to see massive improvement. I hope that helps you out.
Take action and keep it simple. Thank you