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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.

A new way of improving your IELTS score

I’ve got some very exciting news for you today. On top of all the free IELTS tips for your exam preparation we have created another way to help you. We are going to do something that has never been done before. What could it be?

I’m glad you asked.

The good news is that soon we will open an online course to help people improve their score. And guess what, it will be absolutely free and everyone’s invited to participate.

Here is how this course will help you achieve a higher score: we all know how important it is to influence your examiner in a positive way, to make a good impression, to help them appreciate your work. In other words, your score largely depends on your image in the assessor’s eyes.

This course will reveal the secret, show you how your assessors are thinking, what they are looking at, and how you can build a positive image of yourself in their minds.

There will be 6 lessons prepared by Donna Millen especially for the readers of IELTS-Blog.com. The lessons are brilliant and will do amazing things for your IELTS score if you study and implement them.

I will let you know when the course begins. See you there!

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IELTS exam in Australia – January 2009 (General Training)

This update arrived from Australia where our friend S had his General IELTS exam. Thanks, pal!

Reading test

My performance in the Reading test was affected by the fact that all of the questions were of either one of these two types:

1) True/False/Not given type – they were very tricky

2) This task I have seen for the first time, there were 22 sentences given and we had to find them in the text. The sentences were written in such an odd way that I couldn’t get them done easily.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (letter)
You have to leave your current job. Write a letter to your manager explaining your reasons for leaving and what did you like about this job.

Writing task 2 (essay)
Some schools prefer to have uniforms for there students, however the students prefer to not have a dressing code. Discuss, what is your opinion?

Speaking test

The interview was as usual – general questions, the cue card was about different phases of life and which I enjoyed the most, and then there was a discussion of the same matter.