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Hey! Congratulations. Can you please share any strategy to score well in writing and speaking? And how many days did it took for preparation?
Writing
Learning structure for both task 1 and task 2 tests was not so hard for me, I mostly struggled with spelling, grammar, and vocabulary so these were the areas where I mostly focused on.
For grammar, I used complex/compound sent.s, inversion, relative clauses, and so on.
For spelling, whenever I was practicing for essays by writing them in the end I would check them for grammar and vocabulary mistakes through Grammarly, and I would just note my mistakes and try to not repeat them at my next practices.
And for vocabulary, I can just dm you some vocabulary I memorized from different sources which I don't even remember where I got them from for (mostly writing task 1) essays.
Speaking
Part 1 - tbh I did not study for this part, I would just watch some band 9 speaking mock tests from youtube, pause whenever a question was asked, answer them, and listen to the given answer.
Part 2 - I have personal beef with this section since I'm 100% sure this is why I did not reach band 7 from speaking because of repetition. I used to just google "IELTS speaking part 2 questions", tried to speak for 2 minutes, and would record my voice so I could take notes from my mistakes which I tried to avoid in my later practices (Did the same for part 3 btw). My weakest point was repetition since It was kinda hard to come up with something I could talk about given the stress I experienced on the exam.
Part 3 - Although I struggled most with grammar in writing, I was doing just fine for some reason in speaking which made me just mostly focus on showcasing my vocabulary.
If I remember correctly, the examiner asked me about what changes should be made to my hometown.
And I replied with "The exterior design of the buildings is mesmerizing, though pretty mundane since the applied design is pretty much the same for each building, so I would like the diversification of the overall architecture".
For vocabulary I used this channel which significantly helped me. I also used anki for memorization of these words.
I'm incredibly lazy and inconsistent so I would say that in a total of 2 weeks, I studied 30 hours at most.
It’s not half bad. Should be good for most applications.
Could you kindly send me your study plan& resources my ielts test is in 4 days😢 a band 7 is a dream to me