Find the IELTS letters you are missing with our Learner Academic System Report, and study exactly what you need – not the whole alphabet.
Studying IELTS letters you don't need
Years of experience in IELTS and training teachers has taught us that many students are confused about they need to learn, and wind up studying everything, and not concentrating on what they need to learn.
These students will do many practice tests (and many answer checks) and hope that the volume of work they do will produce the band score they are looking for.
They also believe that Cambridge and IDP have designed an IELTS test that can be hacked by studying previous tests. They hope that Cambridge and IDP are slow and foolish enough to not know students try to hack the test.
These will be guided by various centers and schools to study courses designed for all students though we know that a) they don’t work very well, and b) they waste a lot of time studying the alphabet when most students need to study different letters.
Experts on the IELTS letters you need
When you have written books on IELTS (like we have); written an academic paper on how to teach IELTS (like we have); developed a refined awareness of individual learning needs (like we have); and have a exceptionally detailed understanding of how to identify your precise needs (like we have), you can say with confidence that learning with MyIT we give you the letters you need – and you won’t waste your time on the rest of the alphabet.
Let’s look, for example, at the skills you may need to get your band score, and check: which of these do you need? How are these skills inter-related so when you study one you may not need to study others?
Ask yourself about this list, and read on, at the end of the blog.
What do IELTS skills do you actually need?
Check out our blog on listening skills here
Listening Sub-skills for IELTS
· Understanding different question types
· Predicting content, vocabulary and answers
· Listening for gist
· Listening for specific information
· Deducing meaning from word form, grammar and context
· Decoding phonological features
· Understanding grammatical structures and syntactical relationships
· Distinguishing between language form and language function
· Understanding cohesive devices and discourse markers
· Distinguishing main points from supporting information
· Making inferences
Reading Sub-skills for IELTS
· Understanding different question types
· Predicting content, vocabulary and answers
· Recognising genre from format and layout
· Navigating titles, subtitles, index, etc.
· Skimming
· Scanning
· Intensive/extensive reading
· Deducing meaning from word form, grammar and context
· Decoding spelling
· Understanding grammatical structures and syntactical relationships
· Distinguishing between language form and language function
· Understanding cohesive devices and discourse markers
· Distinguishing main points from supporting information
· Making inferences
Speaking Sub-skills for IELTS
· Understanding different question types
· Producing phonemes and features of connected speech
· Producing appropriate word- and sentence-stress patterns
· Producing appropriate intonation patterns
· Using appropriate grammatical structures with accuracy
· Applying syntactical rules correctly
· Selecting vocabulary and lexical chunks to express language function
· Expressing cohesion
· Using discourse markers appropriately
· Selecting appropriate level of formality
· Making appropriate use of paralinguistic devices
Writing Sub-skills for IELTS
· Understanding different question types
· Forming characters accurately
· Using spelling and punctuation accurately
· Using appropriate grammatical structures
· Applying syntactical rules correctly
· Selecting vocabulary and lexical chunks to express language functions
· Expressing cohesion
· Using discourse markers appropriately
· Selecting appropriate level of formality
· Organising information logically and in a format appropriate to the genre
· Drafting and editing
That was a challenging list, and don’t worry, we don’t expect you to be able to answer all the questions you have about them.
That’s our job – we find the letters you are missing with our Learner Academic System Report, and you study exactly what you need – not the whole alphabet.
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