 Is it possible to get a high IELTS score without hiring an expensive teacher? Now the answer to that question is very simple. Imagine you want to travel from India to the UK. You're currently earning $10,000 a year in your job in India, but you could earn $50,000 in the UK. Now the most obvious answer to this question is spend the $500 that it takes to get a plane to take you from here to here. But many people don't want to do that because they don't want to spend the money. Now you could walk from India to the UK, but that is going to take you an extremely long time and you might not even get there. But it is free. You can prepare for the IELTS test yourself, but it probably will take you very long time and it will end up costing you a lot more in the long run because every day you're not working in that dream country, you are losing money. So it's your choice. Pay more money up front today and get where you want to go quickly, or pay no money today and get where you want to go very slowly.