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Most IELTS students spend months practising without ever properly reading the band descriptors. That’s a bit like training for a race without knowing the route. You might finish, but you’ll almost certainly take a few wrong turns. The band descriptors are the official scoring criteria that examiners use. They exist for every skill: Reading, Listening, […]
Paraphrasing is one of those skills examiners specifically look for, and one of the things most test-takers do badly. Not because they don’t understand it, but because they’ve been taught it wrong. Let’s fix that. What Paraphrasing Actually Means Paraphrasing means expressing someone else’s idea using different words, while keeping the meaning intact. It is […]
Sometimes the fine people at IELTS like to through more infrequent, abstract, or odd questions at you. This series will help you prepare for those. Each lesson will introduce some vocabulary, broken down on a task-by-task basis, to help you prepare. Keep reading further and you will find IELTS mock exam questions to practice, followed […]
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