For all prospective IELTS candidates in Melbourne, Australia:
Any candidate who wishes to take the IELTS test in RMIT University, the applications now MUST made online. Any candidate who wishes to take the IELTS test in Deakin University in 2014, the applications can now be made online.
You will need:
Don’t forget to check your watch, because you only have one hour to complete this Reading Sub-test. In this time all answers must have been transcribed on to a computer sheet.
Remember this Reading Sub-test is not just a test of comprehension. Rather the purpose of this test is to determine your ability to carry out further study/research; therefore detailed, or particularly precise/most precise responses, are required.
Remember this is not a multiple-question type examination paper. The question asked is: “which answer best fits the question asked?” It means “Which is the best or the most appropriate answer?”
My general advice this:
What style of writing should an academic essay be? A lot of candidates, even some teachers think that IELTS Writing Task 2 is a very formal essay, but actually it’s not that formal. It's somewhere between normal spoken English, formal English and scientific, analytic English. Although many people know that we should avoid contractions (For example, instead of using “can’t”, you should write “cannot”), this is not a big issue that all candidates should focus on.
Some candidates write in an unsuitably formal style and often this kind of candidate makes many mistakes because he or she is writing above their natural sentence-making ability – that makes your essay sound really “forced”. Task 2 should not be written in the highest level of formality because, after all, candidates are encouraged to include examples from their own experience. This element of "writing personally" cannot be done at a high level of formality because writing at a high level of formality is impersonal in style. Therefore, you should not attempt to write your essay at the very highest level of formality.
Many students ask me how to do "True/False/Not-Given" or "Yes/No/Not-Given" questions. The reason why this type of question is hard for many candidates is that it tests your understanding or certain information rather than just finding key words. Here are some advices about doing this type of question. Click here.
Here is an easy practice. Try to finish all questions within 8 minutes.
ROADS—THE FACTS
• In 1994 the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution described "the unrelenting growth of transport "as" possibly the greatest environmental threat facing the UK".
• The Department of Transport predicts a doubling of traffic on 1988 levels by the years 2025. The Countryside • Commission has warned that traffic through country areas may treble by then.
• Vehicle exhaust is the major cause of urban air pollution. World Health Organization limits are regularly exceeded in most UK cities.
• 1 in 7 children suffers from asthma, thought to be exacerbated by traffic fumes.
• Over 1500 wildlife sites including ancient woodlands and sites of special scientific interest are still threatened by road building.
• Four times as many junior-age children are driven to school in Britain as in Germany, because of road dangers. In Holland 60 per cent of children cycle to school—compared with only 2 per cent here.
Here are some useful verbs for IELTS test. Please listen to the follow audio script and try to write those "IELTS Vocabulary" down. Press "pause" if it is necessary.
