How to Achieve Higher Bands in IELTS Speaking and Reading

We know how frustrating and tough that can be, which is why our IELTS Blog is here to help 

you achieve that goal.

Many of you has questions and always wonder 

“What Should You Read?”

So here is the answer: 

Reading Passage in the Past IELTS Tests Came from the Following Sources

Below are top 9 resources to get the quality information pertaining to achieve 7+ Bands in your IELTS Reading Section. It is important that you must prepare your reading through our Blog and various other websites. In all of these websites and our Blog there are plenty of articles, tips and tricks to practice better and achieve higher bands.

• The Economist – a weekly newspaper publishing international business and political news and opinion. 

• The Economist Technology Quarterly – A technological side of The Economist, covering latest and future technology news.

• New Scientist – Weekly magazine publishing news pertaining to science and technology, considered as world’s best source of getting information, with diverse subject matter.

• American Scientist – an excellent and illustrative bi-monthly science and technology magazine. 

• The Geographical Journal – publishing quality and latest research and scholarships in physical and human geography. 

• Interscience – An online edition focusing entirely on medical, technological and scientific journals. 

• Australian Geographic – an excellent resource to get quality information regarding Australia; and things happening in Australian Society. 

• The British Museum – This is just a wonderful resource to access the latest and key online publications. 

• Illustrated London News – An excellent graphical and pictorial historic social record of world events and British Society up to the present day.

Although, speaking sections lasts for few minutes, but this section is important and students shouldn't underestimate its importance. If IELTS candidates focus slightly more on this section then it is obvious that they will attain relatively good score in their IELTS Test. Below are some useful tips that will surely help you to enhance your Band Score in your final Speaking Test.

• You need to be confident always as it is the first thing that should be developed in your personality.

• You must have an appropriate eye contact with the examiner and let examiner believe that you are an excellent communicator. 

• You must look at your grammar and sentence structure while speaking. Also, your tenses should be based on the subject matter and the questions of speaking.

 

• You must develop a routine, in which you need to extend your responses. Don’t response simply YES or NO in your IELTS Part 1 and Part 3 sections. 

• You must realize that if you are unable to understand the question, there is a freedom to ask question again. 

• You must have a decent range of vocabulary, as a powerful vocabulary will ultimately fetch you a great band score.

 

• You must not take long pauses while speaking. If you think you are not able to complete the sentence, don’t wait and simply move forward.

• You need to complete your speaking in the cue car part for complete 2 minutes. You need to practice for this. If you are speaking correct with right grammar and excellent vocabulary, but you end before 2 minutes, surely you will be penalized for this. 

• You must understand that even you’re speaking wrong; the examiner will not correct you, as he is not allowed to interrupt you in this section to give you suggestions.

 

• You must also understand that IELTS Speaking entirely focuses on the accurate pronunciation of the words. Therefore, a wrong pronunciation of the word may result in losing your marks.