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Did my speaking just now in Ibadan, I was the first person and I hope I did well. Saw the examiner write 2/8/14 in that part 1 box. But he didnt write the rest....What does that mean?

Are we using pencil or Biro for the writing test?

Any tip on writing please? And who else is having his/her exam in Ibadan on the 19th?

nairalandnairan:
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I'm glad to share the IELTS books I used to get Band 8.5 for IELTS ( For these following books, you can leave your email here so that I can send directly to you or you can access one of my favorite IELTS blog named ieltsmaterial.com to download)

For improving my vocabulary, I chose English Vocabulary in Use (upper-intermediate), English Collocations in Use. [/b]These books are great and help me improve my style of written and spoken English to get fluent and natural-sounding English.

For Grammar, I learnt a lot from this excellent book: [b]English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy, Advanced Grammar in Use

For Reading, I polished up my Reading skills by reading articles on the world-wide famous website named economist.com and learnt from Improve Your IELTS Reading Skills by Sam McCarter (best-selling IELTS writer), and practicing IELTS Reading Recent Actual Test Vol 1, 2

For Listening, I chose IELTS Listening Recent Actual Tests Vol 1,2

For Writing, I'm a fan of these books: Improve Your IELTS Writing Skills [/b]by Sam McCarter, [b]Write Right, Visuals [/b]by Gabi Duigu.
I also learnt a lot from this blog: ieltsmaterial.com for IELTS Writing Task 2 (& I got 8.0 for Writing)

For Practice Tests, the following books reflect the actual IELTS: [b]Cambridge IELTS Practice Test Series 1 - 10, The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS, and Barron's IELTS Practices Exams

For IELTS tips, strategies and guides, I highly recommend IELTS Target Band 7: How to maximise your score and The official cambridge guide to IELTS , new insight into IELTS

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Hope my sharing can help you somehow Good luck, guys

Damy2050@gmail.com. I have the speaking on Wednesday 16th and the rest on the 19th pls kindly send for crash reading.

To me, reading section 3 is the easiest. I miss answers less there than in section 1 of paragraph headings or T/F/NG or yes/No/NG

Pls I have a problem! I saw in many places online that you must not read the passages from start to finish but I noticed it makes finding answers hard. On the other hand no matter how long the passage is, I can read it in 5 minutes and have the remaining 15 mins to answer the questions. Those that have don't their exam pls what do you recommend as the best method?

I'm having average of 30 in my reading....pls what band score is that?

For the speaking test I notice that talkative extroverts are opportune to do well than those of us who are introverts and rarely talk.

Now that I heard there is only a Nigeria interviewer in Ibadan, does that affect the speaking in any way? Is there any tip I should know

Is there anybody in Ibadan taking the exam on March 19? Don't mind having a study partner before the time atleast for the speaking practise.

Solitin40:
drop ur email address

Damy2050@gmail.com

Solitin40:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-ikaTdt2XnEY3ZmTGNUTzIxbVE&usp=sharing&tidikaTdt2XnEXzhWLXJhYWR5OHM

not 4 but 9 pages

Bro thanks bit its saying error.

Solitin40:
check the previous page the link to download the material is there

Goodluck

Thanks bro. Downloaded it. Contains just 4 tests.

Also I timed my reading of the acamic texts and I can read them in 5minutes, even the third section. And I do answer the questions withing 20minutes tho there are mistakes sometimes of omission and not understanding or interpreting well. Is there a better tip for the reading?

Painpill:
Congrats bro, so finally Ielts didn't eat us

Just checked mine:

L:8.5
R: 8.0
W:8.0
S:8.0
Ov: 8.0

Next year when I'm done with it I'll appeal my reading something is fishy

You Na brain box o....pls how did you prepare and what did you use. I need your kind of mark.

Congrats to y'all that just saw your result. Pray I get 8.0 overall too. OK so I downloaded the Cambridge ietls 8 PDF and in the listening practise of 4 tests I had average of 35 but in reading I had 30. No way to know speaking and writing tho but for those that have done their exam what's my prospect for the exam looking at my practise scores.

Pls I'm taking my exam in Ibadan on March 19. Where did you people get practise materials so I can know my score over 40. My email is damy2050@gmail.com for materials pls.