Voxcel has busted all the IELTS Myths in the students’ minds so far. Yet, something new always comes up and students keep making an excuse for the failure or blame the complexity of the exam instead of their laziness and unproductivity.
Our years of IELTS training experience have helped us cement our place as the best IELTS institute in Ludhiana, and students look up to us for hope and positivity.
When the myths are broken, the sun’s rays are visible. You get to see the destination.
We have helped students who were stuck with the exam for years but cleared it on their first attempt. The thing that stopped them earlier? The myths that they believed. We helped them to unlearn those negative things and then accept the truth as it is.
Let’s see what are the most common IELTS myths that students usually carry unless they meet us or someone like us (there are some great IELTS teachers out there).
- Location
Exam location doesn’t matter. The exam in India for the same test date is the same. IDP is doing a favour to students by opening more test centres near them to save their travel time and harassment.
Since we operate from Ludhiana, Punjab for the offline IELTS Classes, we can vouch for that. A lot of students in Ludhiana carry the myth that taking the IELTS exam in the Moga City of Punjab will help them score good band.
When we ask why they think so, they usually tell us how someone who was weak in English and didn’t study IELTS scored good bands from Moga but failed badly when he/she took the exam in Ludhiana or any other city.
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- Repeated Results
Many students arrogantly blame the IELTS organization for repeating their results with little to no change in their bands.
The allegations are baseless as the human life on the sun. IELTS is an international organization and is owned by the University of Cambridge, which consistently ranks in the Top 10 best educational institutions in the world.
IELTS is fair in its marking. If you feel you have been scored unfairly, you can take legal action. Who stops you? But you won’t, you know why? You will have some extraordinary excuse and the list never ends. May the universe have an end, but not your excuses.
Sometimes, students see band improvement in their EOR, however, it doesn’t mean they repeat the same result. When IELTS do the band increase in EOR, they refund all the money to the student. So tell me, how it’s a scam?
- Booking the IELTS AC (Academic) EXAM With the IELTS GT (General Training) Exam
This is one of the lamest excuses and frankly, this excuse is not dying. Possibly, this has a sheath of immortality. Even the universe doesn’t boggle the mind that much more than this excuse.
Probably some genius (Ahem-Ahem) gave this excuse and then the sheep followed them after their failures.
Honestly speaking, there’s no truth to the claims that giving the AC exam with the GT exam is better or that writing the AC exam when the GT exam is not conducted is better. These are excuses for non-performing students. Nothing else!
The guys at the IELTS are clueless and amazed by the level of excuses the lazy students carry with them. They relieve them from this burden when such students fail in both ways. How? well, they don’t study.
- Cramming
Believe it or not, but a lot of lazy students cram as many cue cards (Speaking Part #2) and writing task 1 and writing task 2 samples. They will do anything in the world but study.
IELTS examiners are highly trained to see what you are up to. For example, a lot of IELTS centres give fancy word lists to students to cram. They force them to use it in writing and more often than not, these reflect easily in their writings, when they struggle to even form a simple sentence without any errors, yet are writing vocab of Shakespearean level.
Similarly in Speaking Part #1, the first topic they usually ask is from home town, Home, or Work/Study. Most students do a lot of practice of these so that when the examiner moves the speaking ahead, he gets the idea of your English proficiency.
CRAMMING DOESN’T WORK. LEAVE IT.
Cramming won’t help you in the IELTS exam. Instead, you can be penalized for doing so. Good language skills don’t need cramming. Be natural!
- Accent matters
A lot of IELTS students are wannabe Brits, Americans, Australians and whatnot. They carry myths about accents and are too stubborn to face reality. They keep on listening to this from their circle or are so brainwashed by their previous IELTS institutions that they only milk them for money.
They are told that accent matters because it’s an English language exam. Thus, students keep speaking in their broken English and fake accents.
However, in the Public IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors by IELTS have no information on the accent. The speaking is divided into 4 parts: Fluency & Coherence, Pronunciation, Lexical Resource and Grammar Range & Accuracy.
Students believe that having a British accent is important to score good bands in the IELTS Speaking exam. However, in reality, accent doesn’t matter at all, unless and until it affects your pronunciation.
- Truth
All these myths originate in a lazy student’s mind who wants shortcuts and is devoid of the truth. Accept the reality. IELTS will look easy this way.
most students who repeatedly fail their IELTS exam or fail to achieve the required bands are devoid of truths.
Only Truth Sets Us Free
Even if someone tells them, they shun the person and keep believing in their Utopia that doesn’t exist. Don’t believe in rumours. Be a logician!
Note: Voxcel also provides Online IELTS Coaching in India and has helped many students in securing CLB 9 and some even have scored CLB 10 with us.
Nonetheless, we are working day and night to create a platform to teach the truths of the IELTS exam, so students don’t waste their hard-earned money and do the immigration as soon as possible.
Voxcel aims to impart not only world-class IELTS coaching but also we look forward to develop the overall personality of our students.