Self-preparation or working to prepare for the IELTS exam at home is now in demand. This includes online IELTS classes, which give you the flexibility to learn from anywhere and receive personalized feedback on your performance.
Some students don’t have the money or resources to hire a personal IELTS instructor, so they can still find a way to do IELTS exam preparation at home and save their time and money. Thousands of web pages and blogs offer “Free Advice” and “Pro Tips-and-Tricks.”
to pass the exam. The students who find IELTS boring usually fall into those tricks and waste their time and money on IELTS exam fees.
Preparing for the IELTS exam at home is not an easy feat. It comes with its own set of challenges. Only determined students can overcome these. Firstly, the challenge is to find a proper website that offers pure advice without offering or selling anything under the garb of compassion. Many websites are guilty of doing this, while many offer proper advice without asking for money.
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A student has to find it after weighing everything and look for the places that tell the truth, whether you want to hear it or not.
At Voxcel, we also do the same and care for the students. They may hate us at first for telling them the truth, but with time, they start giving us the respect we could ever give to someone for showing them the reality, thus saving their time and effort. In our 7 years of experience and having an Academy in Ludhiana, Punjab, we met many students who were using the wrong material and thus had an impression of fake information that never worked.
They came to us after taking many repeated IELTS exams and claiming that IELTS is a fraud organization. When we worked with them and told them to unlearn all the information they knew, it was very difficult for them at first, but with time and effort, they did and gained real knowledge about the IELTS exam. We are proud to tell you that almost all cleared their IELTS exam on their first attempt afterwards.
That time, we realized that many students prepare for the IELTS exam at home worldwide and need proper material to practice. We started building this website to help such students. On this website, you will find all band 9 writing samples for Task 1 and Task 2 (Academic Writing Task 2 and General Training, aka GT Writing Task 2). All the samples are questions taken from official IELTS Cambridge Books, which will help you tremendously to maintain a rhythm in practice.
The writing band samples are coherent and follow a certain structure, which covers all 4 writing parameters of the IELTS exam. When you go through them, you will have an ocean of real content written to help every test taker score a minimum band 7 in writing.
You will also find all the IELTS Listening and IELTS Reading modules of all the Cambridge Books on our website. Let us see how to prepare section for the IELTS exam at home for free;
Listening
- Watch English movies and TV shows. Watch classic Hollywood movies and TV series and use subtitles with them. Not only will you enjoy the content, but you will also improve your reading speed by reading the subtitles as the film advances. Nonetheless, you will also improve your speaking skills by naturally learning pronunciation, intonation, stress and chunking.
- Listen to news, podcasts, and audiobooks. Refer to the BBC website for the podcasts. They offer great content to improve listening skills.
- Listen to Video Songs with Subtitles on. Try listening to every genre of music, including rap, to become habitual in listening to speed talks used in the 4th IELTS listening section. It boosts understanding immensely; students usually score a perfect Band 9 on the exam.
- Practice with official IELTS listening tests. Refer to the Cambridge, British Council, and Burlington materials only.
Reading
- Develop a habit of reading English newspapers, magazines, and books. Do read every kind of genre. It will also help you to improve ideas for writing and speaking. Reading is a food for the mind, so feed your mind with proper content. Read local and foreign English content.
- Master different reading techniques like skimming, scanning, and in-depth reading. It will not be an easy thing to do, but with practice, you can do it. IELTS reading modules are to understand the exam format, and doing them repeatedly will not help until you don’t do what is needed. Reading extensively also improves your spelling and indirectly feeds your mind to improve grammar and sentence structuring.
- Understand various text formats, such as academic and general writing. You can do both for practice since both readings have the same question types. For the GT students, if you are scoring low on the IELTS exam, do the Academic reading as the 3rd section of GT reading is scientific content, which is Academic reading content.
Writing
- Practice regularly by writing different types of essays, graphs and letters. The only way you become good at writing is by doing it regularly. It may seem boring initially, but trust us, you will enjoy the process. If you can, find a teacher or a friend who can find errors in your essay and help you avoid mistakes.
- Master essay structure, grammar, and vocabulary. All band 9 writing samples on the Voxcel website have a unique and easy structure. Work on those samples and practice like them.
- Seek feedback on your writing from native speakers or experienced teachers. Do it when you are prepared. If you feel like taking feedback from an expert, hire them or enrol for a month of classes to get feedback on all types of essays and Task 1. We also give IELTS coaching online monthly and essay correction services.
Speaking
- Practice speaking English frequently with friends or family. Speak in English as much as you can. The only way to improve speaking, whether preparing for IELTS at home or joining any IELTS classes, is to speak it every time. Even when you are thinking, think in English. There’s no alternative. We never learn car driving or swimming by just watching their videos; we learn them by doing them. Similarly, we become fluent in the speaking module by doing it every day. Practice makes the man perfect.
- Record yourself to identify areas for improvement. Do it every day. Speaking has three parts. Do it for every part. It will help you understand repeated mistakes, such as mistakes in Simple Present Tenses and Simple Past Tenses.
- Build confidence by practising fluency and pronunciation in front of a mirror. If you feel hesitant about looking at yourself in the mirror, focus on the part between the forehead known as the glabella. This will help you focus on your words rather than the surroundings.
- As mentioned earlier in the listening module, watch English movies and TV shows and listen to music videos and podcasts. Do this every day. Remember that IELTS modules are interlinked.
Conclusion—IELTS isn’t easy or difficult; it requires practice and the right mindset. Many students prepare for the IELTS exam at home without any instructor. It’s not impossible! Do it, sail the skies, and live a king-size life.
Voxcel aims to impart not only world-class IELTS coaching but also we look forward to develop the overall personality of our students.