WHY A HIGH BAND IN IELTS, OET & PTE IS VERY IMPORTANT?
All job aspirants who aspire to go to progressive nations to study, work or to migrate should aim at a high score in these mandatory Global English exams. Of course, youtube channel players occasionally celebrate breaking news just for their financial gains: NO IELTS REQUIRED ONLY 5.5 BAND IS ENOUGH CBSE/ICSE CERTIFICATES ARE ENOUGH. All these are only partial truth. I have been teaching all these exams for 26 years and have been dealing with many consultancies who facilitate students and migrants in reaching their dream destinations. Many occasions in the past, I could read these baseless news and experienced that only when students get a high band can succeed in getting admission in the college of their preference and succeed in getting visa to these rich nations. As such, I earnestly request you to separate wheat from chaff and learn the truth. Consult sensible experts who are in this field at least for a few years and then you take your own decisions. Now we have a good number of candidates from abroad taking online training from us on IELTS, OET, PTE & TOEFL. Please note that there are only very few training centres in these developed nations and they charge huge sums of money for training candidates for a few hours on certain days. Their priority is not your success but what they get in financial terms. Media in general, social media in particular, seem to be not taking any responsibility if anything goes wrong in your life when you reach abroad because of their baseless news. Unfortunately, in the midst of explosion of information and when the truth is available at your fingertip, please find the the truth from any official website and consultancies with some credibility. Taking these exams before you fly from here would be better because : 1. A high band in these exams will help you get your visa easily. 2. A good score will help you get admission in prestigious institutions. 3. Once you complete your education, of all your certificates the most valuable one will be your IELTS or an equal certificate in global exams. 4. During the time of getting a rewarding part time jobs or when attempting for promotion your high band will have a great impact in moulding your future.
WHY A HIGH BAND IN IELTS/ PTE or TOEFL WOULD BE A GREAT HELP FOR A CANDIDATE WHEN THEY MOVE TOWARDS A PROGRESSIVE NATION SUCH AS THE UK, CANADA OR AUSTRALIA?
THERE ARE 8 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SCORE HIGH IN ONE OF THESE GLOBAL EXAMS: 1. Whatever certificates you have, more weightage will be given for your IELTS /PTE/TOEFL certificate. Because it is from one of the three most reputed Assessment Agencies of the world. In addition, these exams are designed to assess your ability to think objectively, to establish your viewpoint and to assess your 4 different skills (LSRW) in English communication. 2. To get your visa processed fast, a high band in one these exams will be of great help. 3. A good score in the above exams will help you get a rewarding part-time job in a rich nation. 4. When you face job interviews abroad, this genuine certificate will work wonders. 5. When you apply for a promotion this certificate will help you a lot in standing out among your colleagues. 6. When you apply for Permanent Residence in a rich nation, a high band in IELTS/PTE/TOEFL will certainly help you achieve it. 7. Since communication in English is the most sought after quality of an employ overseas, commendable score in one of these exams would give them a cutting edge. 8. When get a good score in one of these global exams, your confidence enhances, the most important single factor to compete with the rest of best of the world.
EASY STEPS TO SCORE A HIGH BAND IN IELTS, OET, PTE & TOEFL SPEAKING.
Globalisation is not a topic to discuss now as it has already become a reality. You should aim at getting a high score in one of these global English exams if you intend to study abroad or to migrate to any of the progressive nations such as the UK or the US. In a globalised world it is quite natural for smart people to seek greener pastures in today’s wide open world of opportunities. In all these global English Exams, in the Speaking Module, your fluency, coherence in expressing your ideas, the use of topic related vocabulary and intelligibility (=whether your English is understandable to others) are being assessed. Pronunciation attracts 25 % of marks in Speaking. Pronunciation comprises stress, diction & intonation. Stress and diction must be learnt thoroughly. Intonation is the rise and fall of pronunciation of a sentence. In addition, your proficiency in English will also be assessed. Especially your ability to produce grammatically correct English. Moreover, your ability to produce range of sentence structures and the grammatical correctness of your sentences also will be evaluated. Last but not least, in all these exams, your skills in communicating effectively in English with confidence is of vital important. There is no room for diffidence. There is nothing called overnight success. As such, study studiously, paying attention to the minute details of words to be used, their correct pronunciation and ensure that you do not deviate from your question. To help you do that you must find time to listen to as many Ted Talks, documentaries of BBC, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and DISCOVERY. Listening to Tracks of these exams is also will be a great help. Also you should find time to listen to great speeches and conversations readily and freely available in the internet in excellent quality.
WHY CANDIDATES SCORE LESS IN WRITING IN IELTS?
First of all, the Writing Module is divided into two parts Task 1 & Task 2. Maximum 6 bands can be expected in writing an essay, and only 3 bands for writing a letter or graph. Most candidates generally don’t write anything in their life. That is the main reason they score less in writing. In IELTS the candidate’s handwriting should be legible, spelling mistakes should be avoided, sentences should be grammatically correct and punctuation should be followed. It is said that time management is self management. But unfortunately most students don’t practise writing on a time bound basis. In the exam hall there will be a quite a few distractions which disturb your mind and deviate your attention. Unless the candidate answers to the questions objectively, and topic related vocabulary is used, collocation & impressive phrases are written, how can they expect a good score in the writing module? Practice makes perfect. Unless you improve your command of English, good at developing your ideas legibly in a global perspective, and only if your answers are well organised in paragraphs. Then only you can dream of getting a 7 band. At B-GHUD Academy, we make it a practise to instruct our IELTS students using these techniques. As a result, we continuously have a high success rate and maintain our position as Kerala’s Best IELTS Coaching Centre.
WHY A HIGH BAND IN IELTS, OET & PTE ARE VERY IMPORTANT
All job aspirants who aspire to go to progressive nations to study, work, or to migrate should aim for a high score in these mandatory Global English exams. Of course, YouTube channel players occasionally celebrate breaking news just for their financial gains: NO IELTS REQUIRED ONLY 5.5 BAND IS ENOUGH CBSE/ICSE CERTIFICATES ARE ENOUGH. All these are only partial truths. I have been teaching all these exams for 26 years and have been dealing with many consultancies that facilitate students and migrants in reaching their dream destinations. On many occasions in the past, I could read this baseless news and experienced that only when students get a high band can succeed in getting admission to the college of their preference and succeed in getting a visa to these rich nations. As such, I earnestly request you to separate the wheat from the chaff and learn the truth. Consult sensible experts who are in this field at least for a few years and then you take your own decisions. Now we have a good number of candidates from abroad taking online training from us on IELTS, OET, PTE & TOEFL. Please note that there are only very few training centres in these developed nations and they charge huge sums of money for training candidates for a few hours on certain days. Their priority is not your success but what they get in financial terms. Media in general, social media in particular, seem to be not taking any responsibility if anything goes wrong in your life when you reach abroad because of their baseless news. Unfortunately, amid the explosion of information and when the truth is available at your fingertip, please find the truth from any official website and consultancies with some credibility. Taking these exams before you fly from here would be better because : 1. A high band in these exams will help you get your visa easily. 2. A good score will help you get admission to prestigious institutions. 3. Once you complete your education, of all your certificates the most valuable one will be your IELTS or an equal certificate in global exams. 4. During the time of getting a rewarding part-time job or when attempting for promotion your high band will have a great impact in molding your future.
CLARITY IS KEY IN IELTS
CLARITY IS KEY IN IELTS There seems to be a wrong notion embedded in the minds of IELTS test takers that it is mandatory to write or speak high-sounding words in the IELTS exam. Using bombastic words need not attract a high band in IELTS. Topic related vocabulary or reasonably uncommon WORDS, but with contextual relevance, are expected in IELTS Writing & Speaking for a score 6.5 or above. High end words in IELTS do not mean that certain high- sounding memorised words or some confusing and misleading phrases. What the IELTS exam conductors mean is that if you are smart enough to use the right collocations and right words which are suitable for the topic discussing, you can attract a score above 6.5 band or more. However, in reading your familiarity with many uncommon words, understanding of the meaning certain uncommon words and their contextual use might be useful. It is because some reading passages appear to be difficult as there may be quite a few difficult lexical resource, especially in the 3rd passage. Suffice to say that having a good command of vocabulary is required, but not the use of any misleading words or phrases to impress the examiner. It is worth to note that examiners are trained to identify the use of unnecessary and bombastic or declaratory words or phrases. B-GHUD ACADEMY Mavelikara & Kochi
TIPS FOR IELTS TEST PREPARATION
IELTS is an international English language proficiency test and it has been designed in such a way that all the skills necessary to have a good standard in the language are tested. There are certain important matters that an IELTS aspirant should essentially know to be able to face the test confidently. Know first of all that passing IELTS is no child’s play, but neither is it a very difficult task. If you know what to do and prepare yourself accordingly, you can easily become an IELTS holder. Here, B-GHUD Academy, the best IELTS coaching Centre in Kerala, shares their 26 years of experience in the field to help students. The IELTS test format It is extremely important that you know the IELTS test format. The key to your success in IELTS is a sound familiarity with the test pattern and format. B-GHUD has published one of the bestselling books in India on IELTS, “IELTS & TOEFL Made Easy,” which contains exhaustive information on each and every aspect of the test. It will give you all the information, tips and lessons that you will need to face IELTS with a smile. IELTS Listening Module IELTS listening module is demanding. You have to provide answers to 40 questions during 4 recordings. The recordings will be played only once. Typical questions include sentence completion, summary completion, form completion and multiple choices. It is possible for you to get lost during a conversation, but you need to recover fast or you will miss all the questions of that task afterwards. This would be a disaster. As such, it is essential to understand how to follow a conversation, even if you miss something and how you can recover to continue answering the next questions. You are also expected to understand what type of information to supply depending on the question type – a number, a name, an address etc. The Speaking Module This test is less than 15 minutes long and is split into three parts. The first 5 minutes are reserved for introduction and general topics between the test taker and the examiner. The second part assesses the test taker’s ability to speak about a random topic given on a cue card. The last part merely adds complexity to the second. At this stage, the examiner will also pay attention to pronunciation, lexical resources and fluency. Practising each part under exam conditions is essential to your test preparation and you will also get used to the pressure you will have during the test. You need to be able to write down notes that will help you to talk for two minutes during the second part of the test. You should also practice answering questions when you don’t really know the answer. Remember that your knowledge is not assessed but your English language proficiency is. IELTS Reading Module The IELTS reading module tests a wide range of reading skills such as reading for gist, reading for main ideas, reading for detail, skimming, understanding logical argument and recognising writers’ opinions, attitudes and purpose. Test takers have to provide short answers, match information, complete sentences, match headings or complete diagram labels. It is essential, therefore, to practise includes a wide variety of questions so that you become accustomed to each type. As such, developing a wide range of reading skills is essential. Timing is of vital importance in the reading module. You will not have the time to go through the texts several times. There are strategies to help you to avoid this situation, for example, how to skim the text and what kind of information you need to focus on. The Writing Module It is found that the writing module is the most difficult of all. Both tasks in the academic training must be written in a formal style. Task 1 requires that you interpret a graph/chart/table etc., which requires significant practice in English. Task 2 is writing an essay on a given topic and presents a number of challenges. Often, the topic given can be hard to develop if you are not familiar with it. In addition, the essay must have a proper structure. For Task 2 requires that you write different types of essays such as Agree or Disagree, Discuss two Opposing Opinions, Advantages and Disadvantages, Problems and Solutions, Causes and Solutions, Causes and Effects. You have to familiarise yourself with the structure of an essay, how to develop it, how to write the introduction and the conclusion. You must be able to connect your ideas using cohesion and coherence. Tips in general Take a practice test. Understand the test format. Be aware of the exam time constraints. One of the biggest mistakes students make is to forget to improve their English. Start preparing for your test well in time. We recommend finding an institution which will help you with English development and IELTS strategies. Listen to native speakers talking to one another and if possible join in. Bear in mind that self-learning is possible as long as you are committed. Above all, to make things really easy for you, why not join B-GHUD Academy, the leaders in the field and the top training Centre for IELTS in Kerala, India?
BEST IELTS WRITING STRATEGIES IN 2023
To live up to its reputation of being the best IELTS training Centre in Kerala, B-GHUD Academy keeps striving to provide its IELTS students with whatever guidelines are necessary. Here are the IELTS writing strategies IELTS students should be equipped with to enable them to do commendably well in the IELTS tests. 1. IELTS writing is for 60 minutes. Task 2 (Essay) is longer than Task 1 (Graph/Letter) and it also fetches double the marks. It is, therefore, important that students wisely divide the time for each task. Spend 20 minutes on Task 1 so that they can take 40 minutes to attempt the essay comfortably. 2. IELTS students should essentially read and understand the topic thoroughly well. It is because an IELTS essay should address the different parts of the topic relevantly. Otherwise, the task would not be achieved and the IELTS student will lose marks. 3. While writing the introduction, every IELTS student should make sure that they use their own words. Copying the topic as it is to write the introduction will be penalised – copied material will not be counted and your total word count would come down. Make sure that you rephrase the topic for your introduction. 4. After having thoroughly understood the different aspects of the topic – that is, after ensuring exactly what points in the essay are to be dealt with – make a plan mentally on how to approach the essay, what to write and how. You may use rough paper to jot down the points. 5. Divide the main body of your essay into paragraphs. You may write two or three body paragraphs depending on the topic. It is in these paragraphs that you present your main ideas. You should write these ideas clearly and support them with examples. If your ideas are clear and well-supported, you will get more marks. 6. While writing the main paragraphs, ensure that they are linked together using “coherence.” Your writing becomes exceptionally impressive if you use apt words or phrases for coherence. An example of good coherence is given below. a. Body paragraph 1 begins: “On the one hand….” b. Body paragraph 2 begins: “On the other hand….” The coherence used above clearly shows that your ideas are contrasting. All essays in B-GHUD books, “IELTS & TOEFL Made Easy” and “IELTS Writing Made Easy” (there are nearly 500 of them!) use an extensive range of coherence for the IELTS students to master prompt use of them. 7. You should write your essay in a discursive style. It means that the sentences you write in a paragraph should be linked together using connective words. It is known as “cohesion.” Cohesion ensures attractive writing. An example of cohesion is given below. “Space research is of great benefit to a nation. However, it is extremely expensive.” This sentence means that “although space research is beneficial, it is very expensive.” See how well the word, ‘however,’ connects the two sentences! Similar to coherence, our books, “IELTS & TOEFL Made Easy” and “IELTS Writing Made Easy” use countless examples of cohesion in their essays for the IELTS students to have a good grasp of them. 8. Lexical resources are another important factor in writing good IELTS essays. The test taker should try to use his own words. Remember, also, to use topic-related words. Topic-related words are those words that are closely related to the topic in question and are usually used frequently while writing or speaking about the subject. For example, if the topic is “pollution,” the related words are waste disposal, waste management, pollution control, effluent treatment, carbon emission, carbon footprint, global warming, environmental problems, greenhouse effect, climate change, deforestation, afforestation and so on. All IELTS essays in our books, “IELTS & TOEFL Made Easy” and “IELTS Writing made Easy” invariably use topic-related words, phrases and terms to benefit IELTS trainees. B-GHUD maintains its position as the top IELTS Coaching Centre in Kerala by ensuring that its students are provided with the best guidance. 9. GRA (Grammatical Range and Accuracy) is one of the main criteria for the evaluation of IELTS essays. Grammatical range means that the IELTS test takers should write a variety of sentence structures in their IELTS essays. B-GHUD book, “IELTS & TOEFL Made Easy,” caters to an extensive range of attractive structures (see pages 108, 109, 187, 239, 240, 300) for IELTS students to imbibe, so that they can write the impressive language. Grammatical accuracy generally means that the IELTS test takers should use the correct tenses in their IELTS essays. There are any number of interesting and intelligent exercises in our book, “IELTS & TOEFL Made Easy,” for the IELTS students to get adept at the use of the right tenses (“Syntax”) in their IELTS writing. 10. Writing the concluding paragraph is yet another important area where that IELTS students should be careful about. Since the conclusion is the last part of your essay, it creates a lasting impression on the evaluator. IELTS students should, therefore, try to make it striking. Your conclusion should not only be logical, but it also should not vary from the thesis sentence you have already written in the introduction. Consistency of your view is what the examiner looks for. 11. Last but not least, your word count should be sufficient (not less than 250 words.) Keep check of your word count from time to time while writing, so that your essay is neither short of the requisite word count nor too long. Whereas short answers will be penalised, you get no extra marks for long essays. Check your essay for grammar, spelling and punctuation errors before turning in your answer paper. We at B-GHUD Academy make it customary to train our IELTS students in line with these strategies. It is thus that we consistently achieve a high success rate and keep being the No.1 IELTS coaching centre in Kerala.
HOW DOES B-GHUD ACADEMY STILL EXIST?
B-GHUD has survived many challenges during the last 26 years and emerged victorious in the rat race of mushrooming institutes only because it has been producing excellent results since its inception in 1996. Of all the institutes of IELTS and TOEFL which started during that period, many of them could not survive because of fierce competition in the field, inability to be adaptable to the paradigm shifts in the fields, unprofessional management, the absence of futuristic vision and the inability to move with the times. Positive word of mouth, it is generally said, is the most reliable marketing strategy. B-GHUD ACADEMY has been abundantly blessed with it for valid reasons. Beyond all these B-GHUD could help a huge number of successful candidates score a high band in the global English exams required for studying abroad and migrating to progressive nations. In addition, the consistency in generating commendable results has enabled this institute to fetch students and job aspirants from the length and width of India. It is worth mentioning that B-GHUD ACADEMY is the only institute in South India which published 8 comprehensive best-selling books on IELTS, OET and global exams on nursing. These books certainly have facilitated a good number of students in India and the Gulf to reach their dream universities and helped numerous job aspirants settle in knowledge-based economies such as the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada Malta, Germany and the four Scandinavian countries. As there is hardly any gap between what B-GHUD promises and what they deliver, students from different parts of India still come to this remote town called Mavelikara for intensive training. Since the student-teacher ratio is one of the best in the industry, B-GHUD ACADEMY could deliver quality in all these years. It is worth mentioning that most of the senior trainers of B-GHUD ACADEMY were trained by the British Council and IDP. The legacy of these 26 years is being endorsed by the number of students who studied here and their results. Today most of our students are either the relatives of our successful candidates or their friends. Happy customers fetch new customers. The OET section of B-GHUD ACADEMY has been producing excellent results since OET was introduced in India 4 years ago. B-GHUD has written three books on OET alone. (OET AT 1ST ATTEMPT, OET SPEAKING MADE EASY & OET WRITING MADE EASY). Regular mock tests, in-depth analysis of grammar, ample opportunities to practise role-plays with our experts and intensive training on the Reading and Writing modules have helped our students score the required band score to settle in their dream destinations. As per the demand for intensive training in Kochi, B-GHUD ACADEMY has opened its branch in Kochi 3 years ago. There also we impart qualified training on IELTS, OET, PTE & German. We start our OFFLINE TRAINING at 9 am and end at 7.30 pm. Our ONLINE TRAINING commences at 7 am and ends at 10 pm. Students can choose either online or offline. Last but not least, when other institutes have been charging exorbitant fees for these courses, B-GHUD has been charging the lowest fee in the field. As we never compromise on quality, you can join our courses with confidence. It is better to learn from the authors of 8 books which are being taught and sought after by most institutes in India. We look forward to teaching you one of these global exams.
BEST WAYS TO SCORE A HIGHER BAND IN IELTS WRITING
Anybody who has taken the IELTS writing does know that it is a hard row to hoe. Most candidates find the writing task the most challenging out of the four in the IELTS exam. But with B-GHUD Academy, it is quite easier to score higher as B-GHUD Academy is the best IELTS training institute in Kerala with more than 25 years of outstanding results in the field.Before we get into the tips, let us make an idea of the writing task of IELTS. Needless to say, IELTS writing contains two tasks to be completed. Task 1 of Academic IELTS is Graph writing while it is Letter writing for General IELTS. Anyhow, task 2 for both IELTS exams is the same, which is essay writing. The total time for completing the task is 01 hour which must be properly utilized by the candidate. Do you wonder from where you would have the best training for IELTS writing? Don’t be anxious because B-GHUD academy is the No. 1 institute in India that provides excellent online as well as offline training for aspirants. To know more about the Top IELTS Coaching Centre in Kerala Now let us find the criteria by which the candidate would be marked for IELTS writing. The examiner assesses the candidate’s writing task in:● Task Response● Coherence and Cohesion● Lexical Resources ( Vocabulary)● Grammatical Range &Accuracy. Gaining good scores in each of these would help to gain higher scores in the IELTS writing task. Now let’s find out how would you master each of these to get higher scores in the Writing task. ● Time Management is essential : The candidates need to complete the two tasks in 60 minutes. When divided, for completion of task-1, the candidate needs to take 20 minutes while 40 minutes for task-2. Also, the candidate must manage to have proofreading and careful reading of the question. This could be made into practice only through regular training. At B-GHUD Academy, candidates are provided with mock exams in which they would be asked to write within the time limit. For writing practice, B-GHUD Academy is the best in India where they train you to write within the limit.● Be accurate in Punctuation : Candidates are often perplexed by the usage of punctuation. A comma, colon coulddeliver the idea better. But if you mistake it, the examiner might not get the idea you try to convey. So, you must always be careful of punctuation marks. ● Grammar plays the game: Expertise in grammatical accuracy is crucial in writing tasks. Subject-verb agreement, prepositions, tenses, article usage and so on form a major part of the IELTS essay. B-GHUD academy along with the writing training provides the best grammar classes to students. B-GHUD Academy is the No. 1 institute for IELTS coaching. Also, B-GHUD Academy is the best for English Grammar classes. Herein attached are some of the important videos on Grammar by expert faculty of B-GHUD Academy:- ● Keep an eye on the word count You have to write a minimum of 150 words for task 1 and 250 words for task 2. Any word less than the required word count would be penalized in marks. Therefore, you must not take the risk of losing marks. At the end of the test, candidates are supposed to recheck the word count. B-GHUD provides the best training for the IELTS test-takers as B-GHUD Academy is the top IELTS training institute in India. ● Avoid monotonous sentence structures The test-takers must also be proficient in the construction of different sentence structures for the IELTS Writing task. The complex and compound structures could help the test-takers to gain higher band scores in writing tasks. B-GHUD academy has published specialised books for IELTS and IELTS writing tasks in particular. The test-takers could purchase them from the below links: Well, these are some tips for the students to give their best for the exam. Suffice to say, test-takers can take the help of experts to qualify the test with flying colours. You just have to give a call to B-GHUD Academy which is the top institute in India. Happy Learning! Further Reading: https://bghud.com/ielts-vs-pte-which-test-would-be-easier/