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Tips dan Trik Mengerjakan Soal-soal IELTS

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Sebagai salah satu jenis tes yang menguji pengetahuan dan kemampuan kita berbahasa Inggris, IELTS sering menjadi penentu kesuksesan kita melamar beasiswa dan mendaftar di kampus impian. Namun demikian, tidak bisa dipungkiri bahwa tes IELTS kadang juga menjadi penghalang bagi mereka yang belum bisa memenuhi standard yang ditetapkan oleh kampus atau pemberi beasiswa. Tingkat kesulitan tes IELTS yang memang tidak main-main ini sering menimbulkan keluhan. Misal, audio Listening Section terlalu cepat sehingga banyak soal terlewat. Saat Reading Section, banyak yang mengeluhkan kurangnya waktu pengerjaan serta bacaan yang sangat rumit dan panjang. Belum lagi soal-soal jebakan yang sering bergentayangan dan selalu menghantui peserta tes yang kurang persiapan. Listening dan Reading Section bukan satu-satunya part yang merisaukan. Writing dan Speaking pun tak kalah sulitnya, apalagi jika kita lebih sering belajar Bahasa Inggris pada tataran teori, namun masih lemah dalam hal praktek. Jika sepert...

IELTS Listening And Its Most Common Vocabulary

Many test takers are having a problem related to the lack of vocabulary, especially when doing the Listening Section. The problem is due to the fact that not knowing what words are spoken in the audio often means not knowing what word(s) to write on the answer sheet. Some test takers prepare themselves by doing an extensive reading. They start trying to find a motivation to read newspaper, online article, listen to songs in English, and watching movies without subtitle. This is good for improving our vocabulary range, but it is not effective. English is an ever growing language, and is believed to be one of many languages with the most words and dictionary entries, and these are some of the reasons why: a. English is originated from the Germanic language brought by the Angles Saxons and Jutes, so it shares many grammar and basic vocabularies with Dutch and German. In 1066, Duke William of Normandy II or commonly referred as William The Conqueror invaded Britain. He later brought a lot ...

IELTS READING EXPLAINED : DEALING WITH LIST OF HEADING TYPES OF QUESTIONS

"In IELTS Reading Section, there will be different types of questions we are going to have. Each type of question has its own challenge and thus require different methods. One of the most challenging type of question in IELTS Reading section is List of Headings" Challenge in List of Headings This kind of questions will require you to have extremely good method of keywording and paraphrasing, since the questions are not well structured as the  passage   and the information contained by the  paragraphs are jumbled.  So, you may have to start from the middle of a passage, initial paragraph, or even last paragraph when doing the first number. Some test takers have a real serious problem when they cannot grasp the general idea of a paragraph and end up reading the whole passage (while it is actually not necessary) or even worst, read and re-read the whole passage from top to bottom back to top to bottom (which is highly not recommended since it is such a waste of time and...