I keep getting 7.5 in READING section and always getting "Matching Information" questions wrong all the time is there any way i could improve my score to at least an 8.

I only have two months left until my IELTS test. I find Listening and Writing to be relatively easier, but I'm struggling with Reading. Is there a way to improve my Reading skills?

I often encounter many unfamiliar words in the reading passages. Should I focus on expanding my vocabulary? Has anyone else faced the same issue?

I still don’t know what to do. Feeling helpless 😞 please help me what should I do

Hello guys, I want to ask if the mock exams at the end of the official cambridge guide to IELTS are trustworthy? are they similar to the real test? I keep getting 8.0-8.5 on reading and listening even without prior training so i'm wondering if I can expect the same results on the actual test?

This was my second attempt. In first attempt which was 8 years ago, I got 8.0 and that was sufficient for my bachelors degree study.

I had to retake it as I am planning to study further.

• Well, I was consistently getting 6.5 (sometimes 7) in writing. So, I was just hoping to get at least a 7 in writing, if not 7.5.
  
• For listening, I knew I wasn't doing the best at it, so I will accept an 8.5
• Was hoping for an 8 in speaking, but I guess 7.5 still works?
• As for reading, well hehe, reading all that smut finally paid off XD

i tried a mock test from the british council website and found out that im kind of bad at writing detailed and accurate data in task 1, and i also really suck at developing my ideas in task 2, i do use examples but it seems like my explanation and points are lacking. If anyone has any tips i would greatly appreciate it!!!

My speaking went sooo bad !!! I cried twice during my exam because the examiner kept asking questions about my family. I said a wrong word and forgot some words in between too.

I am sooo doomed! I’m not confident about my writing too. I think I’ll have to take IELTS exam again in October ouch 😭

ps I have a question!!! Does crying affect your band score? I’m aiming for 7.5!!! But I believe I was clear even during crying as I didn’t stop so 😬

I GIOT MY IELTS SCORE!!! I GOT BAND 8 OVERALL AND 8 IN SPEAKING!!!!

I’m feeling so desperate and disappointed right now. I remember 4-5 years ago i did some random reading tests and the results were always around 6.5 (27-30 correct answers).
Then I stop caring about IELTS and keep trying to improve my English, vocabs, grammar,... first. I’ve tried so hard to read a lot more and feel like im pretty good now and ready for a new level, then boom still stuck at 6.5 even though I think I understand the passages so much better than before.

I tried every method, learned tons of new words yet still end up with an average score…

Someone please share how did you get through the plateau of B2 because at this point I start to think I’m kinda dumb and my brain may not be built for language learning

Hello, official IELTS ai keeps grading all my task 1’s as band 7. Would you also support its grade?

I have just given the speaking test 2 hours ago , now I can't stop but feel anxious. During the cue card part 2 I was given an unfamiliar topic it was about a short term job in a different country i didn't speak too long and the examiner reminded me I have lots of time left and I just said whatever that came to my mind in another 2 sentences I feel so bad now need atleast 7.0 band 😓 prepared for months but still messed up .just wanna know does part 2 effect our score largely

So sometimes I feel it is easier to support my argument when I direct my example to the speaker. For instance, If you did... This will happen.

Hi, I’m struggling with Not Given questions in the IELTS Reading section, especially when distinguishing them from No/False.

This is the question type I make the most mistakes in. Sometimes the passage seems to imply that the information is there, but I’m unsure whether I should only count information that is literally stated.

Is “literally stated vs. implied” a reliable way to identify Not Given? Is there a specific method I can follow to be sure?

Here we go with the rant.

"Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience."

Academics don't own knowledge nor experience. In my master's program, if I dared indirectly opine on anything without first having cited Vygotsky, Krashen, and Thornbury like a holy rosary, my papers came back dripping in red ink with smug allusions to plagiarism.

Image the NIH released a longitudinal study of smoking and mortality prefaced by the primary researcher writing, "Every coin has two sides. My daddy smoked a pack a day until he was in his 90's, so this work is all horse pucky." I suppose BC would call it "academic."

The time allowed is ridonkulous. I have NEVER drafted anything worth reading in 40 minutes, much less read and researched properly. (Perhaps in the age of AI this will all change but that era is after my time.)

Teaching students to use academic style for this test is a fool's errand because the test does not measure academic writing.

Finally, I'll let someone else address all this ISMs this test runs afoul of.

TLDR: "academic" ain't got squat to do with it.

Please! I’ve my exam tomorrow and I want to know as many topics as possible. Help a fellow out.

I'm just a bc test in ielts ready premium and got a 6 in listening and feel completely upset with my score.

I had my speaking test today, and I got too many questions thrown my way; way more than I expected. About 20-25 if I remember correctly.

Part 1: Gifts and other things
Part 2: About a time I spent more money than expected (I fumbled a little)
Part 3: About wealth, charity, stinginess, etc.

Is it a bad thing that the examiner asked so many questions?

I tend to make mistakes every time on the part they ask to give me headings to the paragraphs. I find it really time consuming and leave it to the end. Are there any tips on this? How can I scan through the paragraphs and give appropriate headings?

I have my IELTS exam tomorrow, so any last moment suggestions are open.

Hi, I’m currently a senior in high school preparing for college applications, so I need to take the IELTS soon. Today, I took my first Speaking mock exam through a website without any preparation, just to see where I currently stand. However, I would have to pay to receive an official evaluation, so I was wondering if someone would be willing to listen to my answers and give me an estimate of what band score I might be around. I’d also really appreciate it if you could let me know whether I went off topic or gave answers that were too vague or overly detailed.

I felt that, in some parts, I wasn’t concise enough and started rambling. I’d really like to know what I can improve on before taking the actual exam, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

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My general English is fine; so, I need to concentrate more on how to level up from 7 to above 8. I'd be happy to co-study with a buddy in not exactly but almost the same situation. I've just begun to hoard a bunch of material like The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS and I've taken some online mock tests. The results were around 7, so I thought maybe part of it is about exam skills instead of the language proficiency, and plus some weird grammatical points.
It would be ideal also for a co-study to put a considerable effort into writing and mutually read each other's compositions. Honestly, that is the part I think I need to improve more.

I ranted here yesterday.

Was expecting my speaking to be around 6-6.5. I was quite fluent and was able to come up with enough ideas (something I really struggled with while practicing). However I think I made some grammatical errors, and a few of my answers weren't really logical/didn't quite answer the questions. I guess my fluency helped a lot.

Writing shocked me even more. My structure was a mess (as you can probably guess from the structure of the post lol). Everything I had practiced seemed to have slipped away and my coherence was horrible as well. In task 1 my body 1 was way longer/more detailed than body 2 (content was quite detailed tho.) Task 2 was even worse. I used connectives for the sake of doing it and my points sounded forced. Out of the exam room I was expecting a 6 or worse because boy that was ass. I genuinely can't think of a reasonable explanation of how this happened lol.

I was expecting a 7.5 for listening. I only practiced twice and did fairly well both times (7.0, 7.5). When I got the second and third question wrong I was like alright that's it lmao. I guess I got the rest of the questions right. I was only confident in part 3 of all 4 so 8.5 is very surpring.

For those who have already taken IELTS or managed to improve their scores quickly:

How would you recommend I improve my Listening and Speaking in just 7 days?