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IELTS Results competition winners in October 2017

Today is a great day, because we get to congratulate 10 winners on their IELTS success. All those nights spent going through the books, doing practice tests and working on grammar and vocabulary are finally over; now a much more exciting chapter in their lives begins! The majority of our October winners come from India (what’s up with the rest of the world?), and their scores range from the near-perfect IELTS Band 8.5 to a very honorable Band 7.5.

Congratulations to:

Academic Module – 1st placeBand 9 in IELTS

  • Sushruti Verma from India, Band 8.5
  • Rajatha Rao from India, Band 8.5
  • Stanislav Boyko from Uzbekistan, Band 8.5

Academic Module – 2nd place

  • Teerth Dhudshia from India, Band 8
  • Shirin Fateh from Iran, Band 8
  • Shreyas Koushik from India, Band 8

Academic Module – 3rd place

  • Mehak Saleem from Pakistan, Band 7.5
  • Sourav Behera from India, Band 7.5
  • Saksham Mahajan from India, Band 7.5

General Training Module – 1st place

  • Chetan Yograj Soni from India, Band 8

Well done guys, we’re applauding you! As a token of our appreciation we are sending your certificates of achievement to your emails. Winning IELTS results will be displayed in the IELTS-Blog hall of fame – so if you won, please feel free to show them off to your friends!

So, how does a person get a high score in IELTS? What does it actually take? All we know at the moment is that Chetan Soni (Band 8) used our website to get the most recent IELTS questions. He also told us how he prepared, and we will share his advice with you later this week. But there must be so much more information our winners can contribute!

We hope to hear from the winners the stories of how they prepared and studied, and what helped them achieve success in IELTS. Anything they wish to share will be posted on IELTS-Blog without delay, so everyone can use the same technique and get a better score in their own exam this month.

P.S. IELTS results competition runs every month, and everyone is welcome to participate. Learn how to enroll here.

IELTS prep tips from Band 8 candidate, competition winner

This post is dedicated to the success of Surendran, our IELTS results competition winner who scored Band 8. Surendran lives in India, he took the General Training IELTS test after preparing on his own. His Overall Band Score was 8.0 with the highest individual scores being Band 8.5 in Listening and Band 9 in Reading!

Band 9 in IELTS
Here are some tips he shared that can help you do better in the exam:

“Listening:
Only practice helps here, take a lot of listening tests with clock timer set up. Mark the words that are important and when audio plays note down the answers directly.

Reading:
Read the questions carefully and highlight words that are important, then read quickly through the paragraph. With practice you can skim and quickly complete paragraphs. Take close to 20 tests. I used IELTS Cambridge books 8,9,10 and 11 and they really helped me.

Writing:
I read through internet topics on a lot of questions that were asked in the last year. Got questions from IELTS-Blog.com daily emails, and IELTS Books. It would be good if you had a tutor to correct your work, which I didn’t have – so could only manage to get 7 in Writing.

Speaking:
Use timer and practice speaking aloud in your room, for the cue card task 3-minute timers are useful. For the first minute note down points to talk about, and after that timer beeps start talking answering all question until the 2nd (2-minute) timer.

This helped me mentally prepare to extend my ability to speak at length, as I wasn’t able to go over 1.5 minutes initially. A lot of topics are available on IELTS-blog.com, the last 6 months should give a good idea on how the test questions will come up.”