Wednesday 15 September 2010

Common mistake in the IELTS Listening module – watch out!

Within a few day’s moment in time lots of you may be sitting IELTS exams and I assumed this would be an excellent time to let you know concerning one common mistake that has been hurting the scores of other test takers.

As you know the Listening test consists of 4 sections. Before each section you will hear some instructions and there will be some point in time to look at the questions. Then the recording begins playing and you need to listen and write down your answers. you'll be writing the solutions right inside the Listening booklet, next to the questions they belong to.

As you furthermore mght know, at the end from the Listening examination the answers must exist printed on the Answer Sheet. And here is the part you need to pay attention to: some people mistakenly choose to copy the solutions to the Answer Sheet during the point in time they are given before each section begins. This is a BIG mistake, because that time is for you to concentrate on reading the questions concerning the new section (that is regarding to begin), it is the moment in time to try and understand what’s coming - not for looking back and not for copying questions.

After the examination you may be given 10 whole minutes to copy all your solutions to the Answer Sheet and only then you need to be doing that. Any point in time spent on copying during the actual test is WASTED, it’s not doing you any good - in fact it distracts you and therefore harms your score.

Good luck with your exams, everybody!

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