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Simone Braverman

Simone Braverman is the founder of IELTS-Blog.com and the author of several renowned IELTS preparation books, including Ace the IELTS, Target Band 7, the High Scorer's Choice practice test series, and IELTS Success Formula. Since 2005, Simone has been committed to making IELTS preparation accessible and effective through her books and online resources. Her work has helped 100,000's of students worldwide achieve their target scores and live their dream lives. When Simone isn't working on her next IELTS book, video lesson, or coaching, she enjoys playing the guitar or rollerblading.

IELTS Results competition winners for April

Later than usual this month (but better late than never) I had a chance to check all the submitted IELTS test reports. This month we have 3 winners, two in Academic and one in General Training Module. The GT winner got an amazing result of 9.0, as if he was a native English speaker!

And the winners are

Joana Leonte from Romania, Band 8.0 (Academic)

Sheikh Manish Ali from India, Band 8.0 (Academic)

Luna Pezo Javier from Peru, Band 9.0 (General)

Congratulations guys, you are right on top of our winners page!

There are special certificates on their way to your emails, so that your score could be remembered. I hope you find some time to share with the rest of us your best tips for getting a high score.

I invite everyone to join the competition and show off your IELTS victory. To become our next winner, click here.

IELTS exam in Australia – April 2009 (General Training)

Thanks to E, IELTS candidate from Australia, we know this much about the topics and the questions:

Listening test

Section 1: Complete forms & M.C. about cleaning services and areas to clean.
Section 2: A professor was talking about the school assignment’s structure and the due day.
Section 3: Something about a special center of some sort.
Section 4: About the waste of water and how to reuse water, the questions were gap-fills.

Reading test

Passage 1: There were 5 walking tours in the pictures and we had to match what activities are included
and what views can be seen during the tour to the pictures.

Passage 2: A text about people that have driving licenses in their own countries, whether they need to take a driving test test during their stay in Britain.

Passage 3: Passage about the facilities offered at school, how to enroll and the procedures.

Passage 4: Passage about the progressing of costumes in the ancient Egypt and 4 other
different periods, and about the development of cotton and linen.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (letter)

A woman left some important item on a plane, write about:
– what was her destination,
– what kind of item she lost,
– why it is important.

Writing task 2 (essay)
Some countries’ schools open at before or after the normal class sessions when parents are working. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages.

Speaking test

Interview
– Do you study or work?
– What do you study?
– Do you think it is better to study with a group of students or individually?
– Do you like to travel?
– When and where did you travel last time?
– Why did you like the place?

Cue card
Describe the music that you learned in your childhood and remember until now.
– What music was that?
– Why it left such an impression on you?

Discussion
– Do you think people of different age will like different music in your country?
– What are the different music kinds and what are the age of these people?
– Do you think music has a good effect on children, why?
– Why people like music?
– Can music have a bad effect on people?

By the way, today one of my colleagues was asked to describe a cultural costume of a special event in his country, which was a bit hard.