5 Tips and Tricks to increase any IELTS English Test Score

If you're one of the people reading this post, then hooray you're in luck because this post has FIVE very important tips to help you enhance your grades in any English language test such as the IELTS, OET, PTE. These tips mainly will help you get that extra mark or so in your modules, and they don't have anything to do with your language.

1. Give them what they want:

Which means that you don’t have to prove your excellence in English nor your dialog abilities or try to oversell your ideas while writing, No, granted the test is hard and so are the questions, but that doesn’t mean you should improvise too much.

Ex. If you find a question about fast food, and it's dangers on health, you go straight for the answer danger no.1 then 2 then 3 and so on, don’t discuss the demographics that buy it nor the pros of healthy food on the human body nor why people buy fast food in the first place.

Your points have to be simple and precise, a "bull's eye" as people say, no indirect statements.

2. Imagine the situation:

You have to use your imagination accurately, so you can deal with any weird questions easily. The simplest way to do so is to imagine yourself talking to a friend; what would you tell him about this situation you're writing about? Meaning, imagine every question as a personal experience that happened to you because all your answers need to be spontaneous so that you could put all your thought into perfecting your pronunciation and grammar.

3. General Knowledge:

It's no secret that when you're entering an English language test you have to consider yourself a sophisticated human who is up to date with everything. Just think of it as entering a trivia game show, meaning you have to know (something about everything), so yeah expect that when you're in the test you will be asked about A.I (artificial intelligence), the benefits of eating chocolate, microwaves or the pros of solar energy. So that goes for showing that you have to be up to date with some information about everything, not just be flaunt in English. You can do that by making a habit of reading English newspapers.

4. Sleep well:

The IELTS exam, in particular, takes 6 hours of your time, including the fact that you could spend from 2 to 3 hours waiting for the exam to actually start. On top of all that, the hardest part of the test (writing) is placed in the end intentionally so that by the time you reach it you're already beat. So the most important thing you need to do is... you guessed it... sleep well, but all jokes aside, it is considered quite hard to sleep before such an exam, so you have to be already physically predisposed to sleeping 8 hours a day early at least a week before the exam day.

5.Know when to remark:

Demand to remark when you have passed your designated grade, in three branches, with half a mark or more. Don’t expect anything to happen if your grades are low in speaking and you failed writing, on the contrary, they could fail you in speaking and raise your marks so you could pass writing. So let's imagine you want four 7s, to make it simpler, if you got (8,8,7,6.5) don’t do a remark. Even if you got (8,8,6.5,6.5) don’t do a remark either, meaning you should do a remark if you got (8,8,7.5,6.5). Also you need to know that it takes 2 months for the remark to be determined so you have to be certain that the grade you previously got before was unfair and it goes without saying that you don’t do remarks in reading or listening because their answers are highly unlikely to have any mistakes in its calculation, but the problem regarding speaking and writing is that they are prone to personal preferences, so choose the right remark at the right time and determine would you rather take a chance with the remark and wait 2 months or take the next exam.

Thank you for reading, if you liked this article, be sure to check out this one on how to get IELTS writing band 7 and higher.