How to prepare for IELTS?

How to prepare for IELTS?

Understand the IELTS test format

• Study the test format to make sure that you know what to expect.
• Look carefully at the content of each part of the IELTS test: listening, reading, writing and speaking.
• Get to know the different types of questions that you may be asked in each part.

Once you are familiar with the IELTS test format, you will need to undertake a number of focused preparation activities.

Recommended preparation activities

• Examine our IELTS practice test papers and answers
• Take practice tests under timed conditions.
• Practise with the British Council's IELTS online preparation resources, available free when you book your test with the British Council.
• Buy IELTS self-study books and materials.

You will find a list of titles, which are all readily available from bookshops, as well as samples of the different parts of the test on   http://www.ielts.org.