How To Get 9 Bands In Listening - IELTS Listening 8 Tips

Let me quickly tell you about the test format and then we dive into tips. So IELTS listening is the same in both academic and general training exams. It lasts for 30 minutes and includes 40 questions which are split into four sections.  As you progress through the test, questions get harder. You need to answer 30 questions correctly to get 7 Bands or 35 questions to get an 8 Bands.

• I would say the main difficulty of IELTS listening is the lack of time. So I'm gonna focus on how you can manage your time more effectively during this test in order to answer more questions. 

• If you take a paper-based exam you're gonna get question sheets and an answer sheet so while you're listening to the recording. You mark your answers on question sheets and then the event you're gonna get extra ten minutes to transfer your answers. That's more than enough time.

• If you take a computer-based exam you answer directly on the screen. So you don't need those ten minutes and they're only gonna give you two minutes. Basically, that's enough to check your answers. You may only need to check those where you write down type words and check your spelling. You may need to think about how to spell a certain word. That's it two minutes are enough for you.

•  A big advantage of a computer-based test is that you always get earphones and you can hear everything clearly in a paper-based exam you may get earphones in some of the centers. 

8 Tips for Listening

Tip: 1

You need to listen, read, and write almost at the same time. It's a test of your concentration and ability to manage your time, your seconds in a very precise way. 

Basically, I know that if I put myself in a situation where I read the question for the first time while listening to the recording, I'm unlikely to find out. So I'm just gonna miss it. So I need to read questions before I listen to the recording and let the idea in the test. Because when it starts they give you a few seconds to read questions and you really need to use that time to the maximum so as soon as you see the task.

Tip: 2

Like, don't read all the questions from all sections. Don't think about anything. Try to read all the questions in this section (that you doing that time ) and before the recording starts to come back and look at the first and second questions to know what you're expecting.

Then you listen to the first recording and they tell you that you have some time to revise your answers Don't do that immediately go to coming questions and keep on reading and memorizing them. That's the biggest tip. I think the biggest thing you can do in order to improve your skull and I would say always try to keep an eye on two questions and the next you'll see questions where the question itself is.

Tip: 3

Before the recording starts to try to pay attention to keywords in each of them or in each option. Because when you listen to the recording you'll be able to make-- them more easily.

Let's say four options and they're going to talk about each of them in the recording and most likely they're gonna say something like initially. But you think, it would be this one but then it turned out to be wrong.

They use Frog- March trick here. They're going to mention all of them and their opinion will be changing as soon as you hear. My tip is as you listen to options, just cross it out the wrong option straight away. It really helps in a paper-based exam. In a computer-based exam, unfortunately. You don't have such an option so you have to pay even closer attention to keywords.

Tip: 4

Now let me talk you through some of the most difficulties.

When you need to fill a gap: and you will be asked to fill not more than one word or a number, no more than three words and a number. What you can do here is you can read your question, your sentence, and think what kind of word can go there. Predict the answer, would it be a noun a verb or an adjective? What kind of information are you expecting? Would it be a street name, or maybe color? 

Try to guess what kind of answer you might get an event. It will be much easier for you to recognize the word when you hear it pay attention to singular and plural nouns. It matches and how you can sometimes check yourself just read the whole sentence and see if it's grammatically correct. Once you write down those words your sentence has to be grammatically correct. 

Let me write an example for you. Let's say our sentences and the company is looking to recruit University and then we either need to write graduate or graduates. Here, we need an indefinite article which should go in front of the word University. The university graduate but we don't have a tribe's so it has to be plural. The company is looking to recruit University graduates. That's how you can check yourself. 

Tip 5

Remember spelling matters a lot. You have to spell the word correctly in order to get a point for your answer but it doesn't matter whether you spell words using the British or American spelling in a test. You will always have to write something down. It may be a surname or a name of the street. In this case, usually, they pronounce the word first and then they spell it out. 

But the spelling will be really weird. For example, someone may say all my Sanam is brown and you think of the word brown. Then they're spoiling. It's gonna be absolutely different like much longer. and not what you expect.

Tip 6

Where you need to read a lot of the first one, is multiple-choice questions. That's where you have a question and four options. Sometimes, options are a bit long or you may have a four-question or six options. Then you need to choose to you which is correct so here the main difficulty is to read everything before the recording starts.

So, try to put as much time as you can into reading, identify keywords in each option. If you take a paper-based exam you can highlight keywords.

For example, in my one of Student's exam, these were roses, chocolate, candles, and then as soon as he hears is something about roses. He knows which option they're talking about and then he can check if what they say and what's written in this option are the same things. Here, you can cross it out straight away the probably wrong option. It helps a lot if you have to choose between fewer options.

In the computer-based exam, you can't cross out incorrect answers and you have to concentrate on keywords and just memorize which answers are wrong. So it's a bit more challenging. I find that multiple options type question tasks are easier in a paper-based exam. 

Tip: 7

Sometimes you get a map. It can be a map from a building. Let's say a library or a map of a town and then you need to find where some objects things are located. So always remember about directions gnosis and the top south is at the bottom is West like on any map. It's important because you will hear things like you need to go to the north or to the south. So you should know which way you need to go and always make sure you find the starting point before the recording starts. Only then you can follow where you need to go. 

Tip 8

Once you reach the end of the test in a paper-based exam. You'll have ten minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. In the computer-based exam, you have two minutes to check your answers basically check that all the words you ride out are spelled correctly and also try to read whole sentences to see if the sentence is grammatically correct. That's the best thing you can do in those two minutes. Don't leave any questions unanswered if you don't know what the answer is just making a guess.