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Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:10 pm**

Dear Ryan,

My name is Teachy from Thailand. I intend to get overall band 7 to apply scholarships but I growth up in not English native speaking country, so it's very hard for me to get that score.

In the last 3 months, I did IELTS exam and I got 5.5 in all aspects and overall as 5.5, but this point still not enough for the scholarships request. So I plan to test IELTS again in the next two months, around beginning of April, and hopefully you will give me somes advice to improve my English skills ^^

Thank you
Teachy

Posted: **Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:48 pm**

Hi Teachy,

I'm sorry to hear you haven't hit your goal yet. Regarding reading and listening, you should be practicing your exam skills until you are consistently hitting the marks you need. There are many strategies you can follow for these parts of the exam, so I suggest experimenting until you find a pattern that works for you. To hear what other successful candidates did in these sections, listen to the interviews at IELTSCast.com.

Speaking will require you find practice partners. Providing full answers and exhibiting fluency are key. IELTS.org has a public description of how the examiner will gauge your performance (download it here: https://www.ielts.org/PDF/UOBDs_SpeakingFinal.pdf). I'd suggest you start by becoming acquainted with that. You may find the patterns in this video helpful, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f41QJAsFG18

If your writing is at 5.5 and you require band 7, you may need to find yourself a coach that knows the exam well and can tell you specifically how to improve your mark.

Good luck,
Ryan

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Hope to get band 7 in all sections , Thailand :)

Hope to get band 7 in all sections , Thailand :)

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