Best Tips to improve your IELTS Listening score - flow charts.

Today's best IELTS tip is about how to tackle flow chart completion in the listening test.

One of the possible question task types in the IELTS Listening Test is flow chart completion.  Here are a few tips to help you deal with this task type successfully:

• Study the words and phrases in the chart
• Look at how the chart is organised.  Look at any boxes and arrows on the chart and ask yourself what they represent
• The structure of the chart will also gives you clues about the information you are going to hear.
• When describing a process (so that you can fill in the flow chart), the speaker will use various sequencing words such as; 'first of all', 'then', 'after x has been done', 'finally' etc.
• The verb tenses usually used are present/present perfect simple when describing a process and verbs are often used in the passive voice.
• Flow charts follow the organisation of the recording you hear.  This means that the answers you have to write are in the same order as the information on the recording.

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Tips for the Table Completion Task Type in the IELTS Reading Test.

Today's best IELTS tip is about the table completion task in the IELTS Reading Test.

In the IELTS Reading Test, you may have to complete a table with information from a text in note form.  Here are a few tips on how to approach this task type:

• Study the layout of tables carefully.  You should especially take note of the organising features, for example headings at the top of the columns.  Look carefully at the rows and columns to see what you need to write where.
  

• Look at the headings and key words in the table and scan the text for them..Then read that part of the text carefully.

• This kind of task type usually has a word limit e.g.  NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.  Make sure you take note of that instuction; I have seen too many students make the mistake of writing too many words in practice tests in class.

• Make sure your answer makes sense and is gramatically correct.

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Alanna