IELTS students usually have SOME PRACTICE OR UNDERSTANDING of the test. It is important, but not in the way you think! The speakers will talk and you will hear the answer for the example – then the conversation will be repeated from the beginning. The Example AnswerĪt the beginning of ONLY section one there will be an example answer. I have seen the rare multiple choice questions combined with gap fill in section one before but not often. In my experience, 80 to 90% of section one is ‘gap fill’ – meaning all 10 questions require you to write down your answers. Additionally, information includes locations, objects and interests. (I have seen the occasional section that is a conversation between friends before).Īdditionally, there is a lot of ‘question and answer’ sort of dialog occurring, with names, dates and numbers being spoken. Section one is always a conversation between two people, with one person requesting information and the other providing. Hello, may I help you? What’s your name/address? What day is the tour available? Practicing as MANY TESTS as you can helps you get a feel for the format of the test and skilled students who have put in the time will be able to ANTICIPATE how the test is going to try to deceive them. How does it do this? By using distractions, false-positives and multiple answers. In fact the test goes to great lengths to make sure that students skilled only in dictation can not simple get all the answers right. tion – the action of saying words aloud to be typed, written down, or recorded on tape.”the dictation of letters”.Section 1 often tries to ‘deceive’ the student!ĭic In my personal experience, new students doing the test for the first time usually get MORE wrong on section one than section two! the sometimes unfamiliar accents/vocabulary.It should be the easiest, however it can be difficult due to: In my opinion, this is the most important section to practice.

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