Passing the IELTS - Self Review

hey guys welcome back to my channel this is little fella Explorer and today I will talk about passing the IELTS exam using self review me only me myself and I studied so hard if you're about to take IELTS exam anytime soon this is the right video for you so keep on watching this video I also insist of four sections listening reading writing and speaking the high score is nine and for us Filipino nurses we need to at least hit seven on all section example writing writing a six point five so for those who are not very confident on how to go about this even after watching this vlog I suggest that you go for a review center because they have all the resources that you need but for those who are confident and if you think you can do it on your own if you have all the motivation and the willingness to learn then you can do self review and that will save you money as well you think that it's the most difficult one but actually you will realize that it is the easiest you just need to keep on practicing I printed out the sample questionnaires I downloaded the recordings there would be different kinds of questioning type fill-in-the-blanks matching tie multiple-choice and I'll give you the techniques that I did as well so this is the easy fill in the blank questions you just have to listen attentively and write the answers on the blank fields while listening to the audio clip so usually the first part of the listening is just a simple easy type and as you move forward it gets more difficult another example is this one it's a type of filling the blank questions but sometimes confuse me so I used this method where I say blank in every blank space while reading the phrase or the line it actually works it works for me make it a habit to read and follow the instructions carefully before answering because even though you put the right answers but if you put more words than what it wants then it will not be correct so before the start of the listening proper you'll be given 20 seconds to look at the questions first and if you see this make sure to be familiar with the directions north east and west the recording goes like there's a lake in the northwest of the park with the bird hide to the west of it at the end of the path so that gives you the answer eight for number seventeen the method that I used here is to keep writing on the map while listening and following the directions based on the recording this one is probably the most difficult part of the listening question because it needs multitasking you have to listen attentively and understand the questions and the answers at the same time the questions are actually just easy but the audio clip will not be waiting for you to finish analyzing before moving on to the next question the method I use is just to focus on the questions and not really looking at the choices first and keep on writing the answers at the side while listening to the audio play then later on and compare the choices with my written answer and I will be able to find the correct answer now take note that you can mess around on the questionnaire you can write anything so keep on writing you will have a separate sheet for your final answers and you will be given ten minutes time to check everything and to transfer all your answers to the answer sheet my advice for you is just to keep on practicing in about one to two weeks time you'll be able to hit a score of 35 and up and you can move on to the next part whenever you try to do it avoid any distractions do it in a silent room follow the recording don't cheat anyway the recording will guide you it will tell you you have 20 seconds to look at the questions and it will actually count 20 seconds it will say on the recording about the ten minutes but that is after all of the recordings being played and I think there would be three or four unlike the listening part it will not give you ten minutes extra time extra time so make sure that you write down your answer right away on the answer sheet it consists of three passages each passage has 20 questions you will have a total of one hour to answer everything and make sure that you use the time properly because one hour and three passages or three boring articles and 40 questions to answer is not enough I would usually look at the questions first then I will decide what kind of technique I will be using let's go through some example the most common is the true/false are not given questions the tricky part here is our tendency to overthink a lot of people are confused with not given and false we'll go through some examples and hopefully you will be able to understand for this first example the answer here is false because it was not Michael Faraday but Thomas Hall who was the first person to recognize hurricanes ability they actually mentioned it but it gave the wrong information so it's a false notice that they are using synonyms they use perceived in the passage but on the question they use recognized so it's also important to look at words that you don't know and you have to make sure that you actually know the meaning of these words so for question number two it's saying Michael Faraday suggested Perkins should enroll in the Royal College of chemistry the answer here is not given because no one told perking to enroll in the Royal College of chemistry's but just notice that Michael Faraday and Royal College of chemistry was mentioned on that sentence so that's the time that you will be confused if it's false or not given but it is basically not given because nobody suggested make it simple make it straightforward if it's not given not given another example is choosing the correct heading read every paragraph by heart and use all your brain cells to analyze what is it really talking about one thing that helped me as well with the reading is whenever I read articles from formal writers I will sometimes find words that I don't know the meaning I would take note of it and check online what's the meaning of that word like for example there's this word ramification that was used in the passage and I actually don't know what's the meaning of ramification at the time this basically means it's the result of an action and on the question they use the result of an action instead of the word ramification if you don't know what ramification is then you might get the wrong answer keep on practicing one hour for three passages you need to be time conscious a lot of us would fail on the writing test because it's so difficult there are two parts first part is the 150 word essay for you to describe a growl illustration table statistics and all those and the second part is the 250 word essay asking about your opinion on a certain global topic you just need to make sure that you deliver your essay on a more structured kind of writing you have to stick with the number of words so if it's 150 it should be 150 and above I would usually do my by 2 first because that's the one with the higher impact one thing that helped me with the writing is by reading articles from professional writers online so I was using a lot of websites the website that I use very often is global issues dot org whenever I read this articles I would write down sentences or phrases that sounds so nice if you know what I mean is like a well structure in English phrase for example from the article I saw this the lack of drinking water created severe problems for local residents I would translate it to my own words my version for this is having not enough water to drink has cost very big problems for the people they just have the same meaning but the other version from the articles is well-structured so I collected as many phrases as I could I would sometimes try to memorize this phrases like I would cover the formal side and read my own version and I would like try to translate it to how the professional writes it and another thing look for synonyms online for basic words like good bad big small and so on my advice don't try to impress the writer with your highfalutin words or flowery words because if you're not very consistent with it they will know that you're just faking it those formal articles really helped me a lot and if it worked for me it could work for you and I suggest that you give it a try you might have it before your exam or after your written exam they will ask a question that will need you to express your opinion and it's very difficult for me to express my opinion even in my own language how much more in English so I just prayed so hard for me speaking be more confident smile there are a lot of YouTube videos that you can watch for you to learn more about speaking and also on the cram bridge practice test there would be sample questions that you can read and try to answer those questions you can also record yourself I think it's good to evaluate yourself as well at the end of it don't focus too much about your accent I think they will focus more on how structured your sentences are it's just like writing but on a less formal way or like a casual kind of way try not to speak too fast because if you're speaking a little bit slower it will help you like compose your thoughts and give you the right sentence structure that's it I hope you have learned a lot on this video if not a lot then probably some and I hope you subscribe to my channel down below and I have a blog as well if you really want to focus and if you're very serious about this if you think my techniques are good you can read my blog the link is down below say hi to my kitty this is my kitty Bay okay bye bye [Laughter] [Music]

Channel: Little Pinay Explorer

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Keywords: ielts, how to pass ielts, english test, ukrn filipino, ofw in uk, OET, pass ielts writing, self review

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Length: 10min 28sec (628 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020