Can I prepare for the IELTS test at home?
There are many aspirants who don’t want to visit any institute or go for online classes but they want to prepare for IELTS at home but they don’t know how to do it. Today we will discuss about a frequently asked question i.e. Can I prepare for the IELTS test at home?
The answer to this question is yes you can prepare it at home. If you are person who feel comfortable studying alone and have IELTS practice materials you can surely prepare IELTS exam at home. If you seek and benefit from professional help the expert can help you to prepare for the IELTS by:
– identifying your strengths
– working on skills and strategies to best use your strengths
– working on skills and strategies that will eradicate your weaknesses
Now let’s discuss about how you can prepare yourself at home. For this we have some tips for you which are given below:
Study tips
– Make a daily routine with your study plan and sticks to it don’t skip it.
– This means take your time of the day which suit’s you the best. If you feel that you can concentrate more in the evening or night choose that period for your study.
– Make a detailed plan with a daily and hourly breakdown of your schedule. For example: Speaking practice: I have to record my IELTS speaking Part 2 (cue card) topic for 2 minutes. Give 1 minute for preparation. After completion check the recorder and note down the identified errors. Compare with model answers provided by an IELTS expert. Repeat task and re-check.
– Identify your weak points and work on them. Keep a record of your result and loom for your improvement. For example, you wrote Writing Tasks 1 and get it checked by a teacher or any expert. Write a detailed feedback on your progress over time.
– Try to do more complicated tasks in the starting. For instance, listening part 3 in which several speakers are discussing a topic and you find difficult to understand, and then work on that area first.
– Move step-by-step. Through self-assessment and feedback from professionals, check your progress constantly. If you are told to re-.write any task by including any special elements to improve it, do it. This will improve you more than simply moving on to do a new task. Quantity is important but quality is even more important.
– Where ever you get a chance to read, write, listen to and speak English don’t let it go just grab it. Immerse yourself in the language as much as possible.
– Yes, keep checking your progress by taking mock IELTS tests under exam conditions.
Many of the IELTS aspirants are too calculative and they ask that to achieve 7 bands or desired scores how many hours a day, a week I have to study? Well the internet is flooded with variety of answers for this particular question. Let’s be honest it is true that you have to devote plenty of time to score good in IELTS exam but what is more important is how you turn those hours into quality time. For this you have to work on language skills and exam skills and follow the tips given by the experts. In other words, we can say that if you carefully plan your study and follow the tips you will easily achieve your desired band scores.
Hope! This segment will help you in at home preparation of IELTS exam and you will be able to crack the exam easily. Please give your views and suggestions in the comment section.
