Ielts

[anj1976]

Heylos alls..

i am so excited.. just got the ielts result.. My husband scored 8 and i managed 7.5

i feel great. this was so important for us, though i do not doubt my english speaking or writing or listening abilities, but we needed a 6.5 minimum, and here we are,, with two and half points/score extra.. wish i could give it to someone else who needed it so desperately.

anyway... now the application will be filed in a weeks or two. we need the result of ielts in hard copy.

Thanks everyone for everything.. the support, the silly questions, the informative posts, the important questions, the replies to all my posts.. on n forth

anyone need to ask anything on ielts, pls feel free, i think now that i got a good score, i can help people with pride

love
anj

[kaz101]

CONGRATULATIONS ANJ

both to you and your husband!

One step closer!

Big hug,
Karen

[anj1976]

Originally Posted by kaz101

CONGRATULATIONS ANJ

both to you and your husband!

One step closer!

Big hug,
Karen

thanks karen.. i behave like a baby at times.. i mean, the way i show my excitement, it is so funny. hehe

and i loved your new avatar.. dont panic.. suits all of us here so well.

[SNH]

Congratulations!!

I cannot imagine having to go through all these things just to move to Australia - it seems crazy!!

[anj1976]

hahahaha.. yeah it is crazy, the kind of people who were there for the test were not even 20% as good as me, if at all you call my english good . So you can imagine.. me and my OH came out of the hall and we both were laughing just looking at each other, it was a piece of cake, and those guys were out with faces hanging, and saying SHI* it was so difficult.. there are all kinds of people, wanting to apply, the only way would be to test them all. and we come from India which is not completely english speaking country, you would know.

[Robogirl]

Congrats to you, that is SO great

I remember when we waited for ours, I only had 6.5 and my husband was 7.5, he is talking about taking it again, if he has 8 I think we will get 10 more points (we are going for 175)

Hugs Mette

[anj1976]

Originally Posted by Robogirl

Congrats to you, that is SO great

I remember when we waited for ours, I only had 6.5 and my husband was 7.5, he is talking about taking it again, if he has 8 I think we will get 10 more points (we are going for 175)

Hugs Mette

Our average is more than 7.5.. it comes to 7.75 which will be more like 8. our agent told us we needed atleast 6, if not 7.. so lets see how it goes. wish you luck with the entire process. its such a torture at times

[abhiria]

Hi Anj,
I got my ACS RPL skill assessment positive and i am plannin for the IELTS on 27th Sep .Just wanted to know from you that how tough is it to score 7 .Do u have any Tips or Tricks which u can share it with me ?? Thanks

Abhijeet

[anj1976]

Originally Posted by abhiria

Hi Anj,
I got my ACS RPL skill assessment positive and i am plannin for the IELTS on 27th Sep .Just wanted to know from you that how tough is it to score 7 .Do u have any Tips or Tricks which u can share it with me ?? Thanks

Abhijeet

Hi Abhijeet
It isnt tough to score a 7, as you can see, my english isnt great, and off late it had started becoming crazy, there were so many spell errors that I was a worried lot, but I tried not to make silly txt mistakes. I was trying to talk to everyone around me in English. I come from an english medium school, did english elective in my high school and of-course we have english as a subsi in college, so it wasnt a big issue. But with time we tend to loose touch with the language part of it. thanks to the computers, we do not write much these days, so that bit too was an issue, not with me though but my husband was concerned about his speed etc.

ok back to ielts, they give you the study material, go through it nicely, make yourself comfortable with the format and different task. I dont know how comfortable you are with brit accent, though the listening part isnt difficult but u have to be used to the format. They play the recording just once and the answers have to be managed there and then, they do give you time in between.

no tricks as such. practise speaking test, take cue from the study material available. and ofcourse go through the reading module too. It is a piece of cake for those who use english everyday and come from english speaking soceity.

another thing, remember, they are taking your test not to check your IQ level or your knowledge base on current issues, they just want to check how comfortable you are with english and your usage.

I went through the book for not more than 4 days, giving about an hour or so each day or maybe two hours and my husband read through the book for an hour or so for two days, but he is a fast learner

anything u want to ask, just shoot your questions. its damn easy, atleast for us it was.

[anj1976]

i can tell you about the speaking test.

the moment i went to the room, they greet you and ask if you are comfortable, should we start the test now, they they put the recorder on, and do the introduction bit again, asking for your verification, then you introduce yourself, answer as they ask, after the intro she said,

now we will talk about gardens, how many people do gardening these days
do you do gardening
how does it help?
then she asked about what work i do
then she asked me to talk about a gift that i had given to someone, she handed me a paper which had what we can talk about in those two minutes (wom it was given to, the occasion, what was in the gift), they give a pencil and paper to make notes,
next was, should schools give appreciation to kids in form of certificates etc, and why
then there were a couple of questions more. very very general things and they basically want you to talk

for the listening i goofed up in onesection, my husband wasnt well that day and he was coughing a lot, we gave the test together, so everytime he was coughing, my attention was on him. so i missed a part. thts why the 7.5 for me, else i would have managed 8.

for the writing we had to write about advertising affecting the youth these days, how they are forced to buy products that are advertising, how it affects them. we had to write more than 250 words on this and coming from advertising background i could not stop writing :P

in the letter we had to write a letter to the tourism officer who has interview a friend and i had to give her reference to him, 150 words letter with how i knew her and how the company will benefit having her as an employee

hope this helps
as i remember, i will come back and post here :P