 Hi everyone Chris here from IELTS Advantage with another success story. So today we have Ashok from our VIP course Ashok, can you introduce yourself to everyone? My name is Ashok Ghabi. I'm a dental surgeon and I am from India Great. And can you tell everyone a little bit about your experience with IELTS and What did how many times did you do the test? What scores did you get? What did you struggle with things like that? Chris it was basically a long journey. It took around one and a half year to reach this score You don't believe My first score was 5.5 and or but I Just wanted to achieve my score at any cost because I wanted to move to Canada so that is why I worked hard and right now my Score is 18 listening 18 reading 7 in speaking and 7 in writing. So from 5.5 overall to 7.5 overall Yes, that's amazing. That is a huge jump even in a in a year and a half That requires a huge amount of work and efforts. So, you know, congratulations on that and so can you and Share your journey with people a little bit like to go from 5.5 to 7.5 in a year and a half is a massive achievement So how did you do it? Share that with people initially? I didn't know anything about IELTS about About this what what's this? I My friends told me that it's just English test. So every time I read English, that's enough And I also read so initially I also read some simple essays But I never practiced means I never wrote essays and I never practiced a lot. So Initially, I also took up some Local training course from India, but he didn't work after that I got 6.5. So one of my friend He is also dentistry. He's also your he's also a member of pale Academy. Do you know month and solanki? He is also my friend. So we both decided to to control your course So after that, you don't believe I go three times seven and seven point five events in writing So it was the writing was the big hurdle for me initially because I didn't know anything about writing I didn't know the different parts of the different types of the essays. So it was the basic It was the main hurdle for me. So after that what I did I strongly followed your advice Two main ideas then explanation then example What initially what I did before enrolling your course before taking your course, I mostly started writing whenever I Got my question. So I started writing immediately without planning my essay But when you told me strong when you told me that I had to Plan essays before I write before starting writing. So after that I plan I gave at least five minutes for writing Planning essays and then after I start my writing essays Secondly, you always told that read as read Newspapers, so I was I also prefer to read newspapers. So what happened, you know after reading newspapers It becomes very easy. It became very easy for me to write down the example So I didn't have to think about the examples at the time of writing apart from this It also benefited me in speaking portion because in type three in principle part three question part three is speaking part It's quite the typical questions they are the examiner asked some typical questions So it became very easy for me to answer all these Part three questions. So that is why I mostly concerted on reading newspapers So I downloaded the the Guardian the Hindu. So at least I gave One and a one hand one and a half over to read the newspapers every day and Every day Wow, and you and you don't believe rich. I wrote more than 300 essays That's a lot. Yes, I didn't correct And and and I also advise each and every members of the pale Academy as well as other students that Never miss Mondays as well as when is this essay classes? I I I cancel my appointments for Wednesday and I strongly read different students essays so it helped me to Get all these ideas of different students. So at the time of exam, I didn't have to worry about the ideas I didn't have to worry about the examples. I didn't have to worry about the explanations So all these things there's just stuck in my head So it became very easy for me to write essays particularly on exam So there is no there was no room for nervousness Yeah, so when you when you were sitting down on Test day, how did you feel compared to the first time and the last time? How was there a big difference in how you felt first time? I didn't know anything about essays different structures of the essays But after enrolling your course It became very easy for me. Initially what happened, you know, our local trainer always told me advised me to Write down heavy vocabulary so-called heavy advanced vocabulary so many ideas without explanation So that is why I got around six and six point five But after with with with local trainers. Some of them are really good. Most of them aren't you know, so It's the same. Yes so initially I also believed that I had to use heavy vocabularies and I had to use so many ideas without any explanation without providing Examples, but all these things are very necessary if you want to if you want to get a seven or seven four More than seven bags and secondly Newspapers also, I forgot one thing that newspapers also play a very important role to To learn grammar because you know grammar is a really boring portion, but if you really for me, it's a quite boring whenever I Even though I created a whole grammar course like that. Yeah, I didn't enjoy it So when I read newspaper, so I was familiar. I was familiar with the prepositions and articles. So if anyone Know about the anyone knows about the prepositions and article, then they will definitely win this game Because you don't have to write down heavy, you know Active a passive voice is all conditional sentences in this particular exam It the the main aim of this exam is that how you convey how you can convey your message in English in simple way so keep it simple read newspaper and And third most important thing I would like to share with you is that If if you have a good friend who is also preparing for us then discuss with your friend Yeah, it's not help to it is it will not help you to improve your English, but it also help you to provide so many Ideas relate to SS as well as your speaking portion and last And last thing is that Many time people always advise that watch BBC, but I mostly prefer I mostly advise students to watch Discovery as well as National Geographic channels because in reading and listening portion you will get same topic in your last sessions So it become very easy for you to predict the answer. That's excellent advice It's just yes, you seem to have just surrounded yourself with English and with yes for a long time of work. Yes It's great to hear that because you are an example of someone who has followed the system that I That I encourage everyone to to follow which is not very complicated. I mean, it's find out what your weaknesses are Yes, those weaknesses into strengths, you know surround yourself with English practice every day Yes work hard, you know these things anyone can do these things And it's great to see someone a shining example of someone who just followed that system blindly and got the scores that they need Yes, sir Sometimes you you do you sometimes what I During Venice days you many times scolded me because I mostly prefer to do some experiments with my essays particularly in your class Because there is no room in exams. So I mostly preferred you you advise me very well I really followed your advice and I during this time I You hear me. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Oh good. Oh good. Yeah, keep going. Oh So looks like Ashok has hit the wrong button and Ended our success story a little bit early and but that's all right. And he pretty much said everything that he needed to say and Maybe he lost power or maybe lost the internet or something like that and but Now that you have me alone and if you look at all of our success stories all the students who were on the VIP course And they pretty much followed the exact same formula and you'll hear all of them talking about you know You're keeping it simple simplifying everything using grammar vocabulary in a way that helps you convey your message and clearly communicate with the reader Surrounding yourself with English practicing your vocabulary of improving your vocabulary every day and Reading every day listening every day to English and planning out your answer Following a certain structure that we use on the VIP course and all of them Get the scores they need if they follow that system. It's really really simple and it's not simple as in You know ABC one two three You do have to do a certain amount of work But if you're prepared to do the work and get the scores you you will get the scores you need So that's pretty much it. I'm talking to myself instead of Normally speaking to a student, but that's it. Thanks guys. Bye. Bye