 Hey everyone Chris here from IELTS Advantage and in today's lesson we're going to look at IELTS preparation how to get the score that you need in the fastest possible time. Everybody wants a certain IELTS score and nobody has time these days so what we're going to show you in this video is how to avoid spending a lot of time failing the test over and over and over again and get the score that you need in the shortest possible amount of time. So if we look here this is most students all right most students doing the test are sad because they try and do the test and fail and then they fail again and then they fail again and they fail again and then they fail again and let's say that this is over like a like a six month period which takes you know extremely long time just failing over and over and over and over again but what we do with our students is we show them exactly what to do and then they get the score next time so why are our students getting the score that they need and most students are failing continuously that's what we're going to show you in this lesson so we're going to show you how to avoid these things and get the score that you need in record time so let's have a little look at number one so most students why they fail the first time is they rely on tips and tricks and shortcuts like if tips and tricks and shortcuts worked then I would just give you tips and tricks and shortcuts that's what I would give to my students unfortunately they don't work the students who get the score that they need first time they do something called deep learning they learn things properly they're not looking for shortcuts and hacks and tips they actually look at things in detail and learn them properly because you can't cheat the test with these tips and tricks let me show you an example let's say that somebody wants to improve their vocabulary well if you go onto youtube the most popular video on aisles vocabulary teaches you five words that will get you a band nine now this video is nonsense it is designed to get clicks it is designed to get subscribers it's to improve somebody's youtube channel they don't care about your score there is no way that you can learn five words and then get a band nine it's just nonsense what our students would do is we would learn ten words a day by reading every single day reading english every day and then noting down new words and all the information that they need to remember them and use them in the test and then reviewing them regularly so this requires five minutes and this requires probably 30 minutes a day for a couple of months but this works this is going to get you the score that you need this is going to cause you to fail and we'll end up taking a lot longer because as we've seen before most students take months and months and months and months because they fail over and over and over again and the second reason is the students who fail are the ones that do things like i'm going to follow a general course or i'm going to learn some structures or read lots of band nine essays so why are you going to a general course when you are an individual you have individual strengths and weaknesses why are you going to a course that is teaching you about listening and reading when you've no problems with listening and reading learn some structures structures are important we teach our students structures but they are a tiny percentage of your overall mark and just relying on structures doesn't teach you anything about vocabulary which is 25 percent grammar which is 25 percent coherence and cohesion task achievement these things that actually matter doesn't teach you anything about those things or just reading lots of band nine essays i can't watch Ronaldo and Messi play football and then become a better footballer you can't read lots of band nine essays and then magically be able to write in the real test it's just not going to happen whereas our students what they would do is find out the exact reasons why i'm not at my required level yet and focus solely on those areas for most of you the reason why you are failing is just maybe a small handful of areas maybe three or four things that you need to work on and until you fix those things by getting feedback on your work and understanding what those things are nothing else is going to help you so getting the help that you need and getting the feedback on your writing on your speaking your reading your listening and then just like taking your car to a mechanic or going to a doctor when you feel ill they are going to fix the exact thing that's wrong with you not give you a general course the next thing that these students don't do or what they do is they rely on the wrong sources of information so they ask other students to help them with their work they look at youtube and they look for the cheapest teachers that they can find so other students would you go into a hospital and ask the sick people in the hospital to treat you no so why are you asking people who have got five point five six six point five to tell you whether your essay is a band eight or a band nine level that's just not going to work or going on to youtube look at the most popular youtube videos for isles they're teaching you tips and tricks and hacks things that you want to hear things that are popular but not things that actually get you the score that you need and finding the cheapest teacher that you can find trying by the cheapest house you can find or the cheapest car you can find or the cheapest pair of shoes that you can find is that going to be a good product or service you know that yourself what the answer is students who get the score that they need in the fastest possible time they're looking at the official marking criteria so we released a video recently where we were doing a mock speaking test with a student and people were criticizing the student based on things that they had heard from other students and seen on youtube channels and my response was always well where does it say anything about that in the official marking criteria that is what the examiners are using to assess your speaking to assess your writing so you need to know those inside out and a teacher with a long track record of helping people get high scores you should be asking your teachers you should be asking your schools what are your your past results like can we see some success stories if they give you a bad answer to that question then you shouldn't really go with them because again it's going to cause you to fail these students they rely on hope and luck i hope that i get the score next time that's not going to help you maybe i'll be lucky next time you won't whereas students who don't believe in hope and luck get the score that they need in the fastest possible time they get feedback on their work to understand what their strengths and weaknesses are and then they take action to turn those weaknesses into strengths to get to the score that they need and those are the students they get the score they need in the fastest possible time so again if you're trying tips and tricks and relying on unreliable information and hoping that you'll be lucky next time you're just going to fail over and over and over and over again and it's going to take you an incredibly long time whereas our students get the score that they need the next time they do the test because they prepare properly so by doing things properly you are accelerating your preparation time so just to summarize if you want to get the score that you need in the fastest possible time avoid shortcuts avoid tips and tricks and hacks and all of those things ask yourself what is my current level where am i right now what are the exact reasons why i'm at that level so if you're at 6.5 for writing instead of doing the test over and over and over and over again or trying some you know youtube video that teaches you the secrets to getting a band nine or some nonsense like that just show it to someone who knows what they're talking about and they will tell you the exact reasons why you're not getting a score that you need number three what do i need to do to move to the next level so if somebody tells you you need to work on a b and c work on a b and c a good teacher should be able to teach you that it is not that complicated it's really really simple once you know how number four make a plan of action get your calendar out or get it on on your ipad or whatever it is and just divide it into squares for each day and put the things that you need to do and do them and that's the point number five take action actually do the things people who rely on things like shortcuts and hope and luck the reason they fail is they take no action and number six do the test when you're ready don't book the test until you know you're ready to do the test you're not going to get lucky next time but many of you will be thinking right now but getting a good teacher is so expensive and i can't afford that i totally disagree with that and not because i'm a teacher not because i want your money not getting a teacher is truly expensive it is really really expensive let me convince you of that so this student let's say they spend fifty dollars on a really really cheap teacher or a cheap course and their test fee is like two hundred dollars and travel fees say they they spend about three hundred dollars each time they fail the test this is not unusual for someone to spend over a thousand dollars some students spend thousands and thousands of dollars failing the test over and over and over again so going for that you know scam youtube video or scam school or cheap teacher is costing you a huge amount of money whereas let's say this student instead of wasting all of this money they invested it in a good teacher or a good school and let's say they're down a thousand dollars but they end up going to canada or australia or america and they get a job like a fifty thousand dollars or something like that they are up forty nine thousand dollars that's the way you have to think about it because the people who are thinking this way and they don't understand the cost of free and the cost of cheap and the cost of believing in things that don't actually help them whereas our students they invest money our course is way below a thousand dollars by the way and then they get the score they need and they move to the country of their dreams get the job of their dreams and get the course or get the salary that they deserve so thank you very much for watching hope that you enjoyed that to help you out a little bit what I'd like to do is give you a free course it's our fundamentals course which will teach you the absolute essential principles of aisles writing speaking reading and listening it's totally free just click below to get that and you can get instant access if you need anything feel free to get in touch with us and my ipad is dropped so let's check if that has broken or not because that will cost me a lot of money thank you very much guys see you soon bye bye