Hello Members,

I have scored 8.0 bands in IELTS. I have shared some relevant information over the past couple of
months about IELTS. Today I am going to talk about IELTS, PR application, agents, and scams.

1. You need L8 R7 W7 S7 scores in IELTS. Some people think they can get 8 in any particular module, and
7 in others will do. I met a few such people who didn’t know that they specifically needed to score an 8
in Listening and 7 in other modules.

2. Without 8777, you will not get a minimum required CRS that is needed. However, this also depends
on your age, education, and work experience. You can search and go to the CIC website to understand a
rough CRS score that you will get with 8777, work exp, age, and education.

3. Your IELTS coach is the most important person as compared to your agent, who is putting up your file.
Having an IELTS coach with 8+ band improvises your chance of scoring 8777. Whether you get PR or not,
your agent will charge you his set of fees and your PR application is solely dependent on other factors.

4. Agents will be optimistic about your filing. Even if you lack in English or you do not have sufficient
education or work exp. You will be encouraged to put up a file. You need to do a little research
individually to see whether or not you are having a good CRS score if you get 8777 and if you are capable
of reaching 8777. If you are severely unclear in English, you have to make a long run to get to 8777
benchmark.

5. With this post, you will see many people commenting about getting an IELTS certificate without
examination. These are scams that aspirants should not buy. IELTS certificate will be verified by
authorities while assessing your application. If you are found with illegitimate IELTS certificate, you can
be blacklisted.

6. I get a lot of people asking me how to score 7 in writing/Reading/Speaking and an 8 in Listening. Well,
this is not a one-line answer. I had to find a coach with 8+ bands and write 40+ essays and letters to
come to my current scores. So the key to good bands depends on the right guidance and hard work.

7. Free tips are helpful but we need to understand who is giving these tips and tips will not help you
identify your errors. I see people feeling as if they are an expert after watching some videos and gaining
a few suggestions. I can just relate myself to them because I thought the same. However, after 2 failed
attempts, I learned my lesson. Either you learn from your predecessors’ mistakes or you learn it the hard
way.

8. Even after you pass IELTS with 8777 and put up your PR application, you need to make sure you have
sufficient funds in your bank balance and other documentation ready to submit when you get an ITA. If
you do not have this, then you may not get a chance to go abroad. I get to see people who mention they
have financial difficulties in buying material or hiring a coach. Well, if you can’t spend some money on
good things, how will you show the required bank balance? Don't ask me how much balance you need
to show; you need to ask this question to your agent who is keeping your file

9. If you are not clear with basic English, if you cant spend some money on a good coach and materials
for preparation, if you are not dedicated and hardworking, and if you have insufficient funds then IELTS
is not for you.
10. Understand your current abilities and figure out what you need to do to begin working towards your
goals.

A word of caution, do not do anything illegal. You will lose your money, time, and peace of mind.

P.S.:

Please see my past posts for more information.

My IELTS scores

1st attempt L7.5 R7.5 W6.0 S7.0, (on my own)

2nd attempt L8.0, R8.5 W6.5 S7.0, (on my own)

3rd attempt L8.5, R8.0, W7.5, S7.5 (with a coach)

For those who wish to practice on their own, they can try these tips. Others who can invest in a qualified
tutor should try to seek a coach who has got 8+ in IELTS, get a right PR agent who is up to date with
latest changes and can effectively put your file to increase your chances for PR. If you have any legit
questions that I can answer in 1/2 line, I would be happy to answer them, and you can DM me. Good
luck

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Hunt and Lipo’s vision, therefore, is one of an island populated by peaceful and ingenious moai builders
and careful stewards of the land, rather than by reckless destroyers ruining their own environment and
society.

‘Rather than a case of abject failure, Rapu Nui is an unlikely story of success’, they claim.

Whichever is the case, there are surely some valuable lessons which the world at large can learn from
the story of Rapa Nui.

A. Of all mankind’s manifold creations, language must take pride of place. Other inventions -the
wheel, agriculture, sliced bread - may have transformed our material existence, but the advent
of language is what made us human.
Compared to language, all other inventions pale in significance, since everything we have ever
achieved depends on language and originates from it.
Without language, we could never have embarked on our ascent to unparalleled power over all
other animals, and even over nature itself.
But language is foremost not just because it came first.

In its own right it is a tool of extraordinary sophistication, yet based on an idea of ingenious
simplicity: ‘this marvelous invention of composing out of twenty-five or thirty sounds that
infinite variety of expressions which,
whilst having in themselves no likeness to what is in our mind, allow us to disclose to others its
whole secret,
and to make known to those who cannot penetrate it all that we imagine,
and all the various stirrings of our soul’ This was how, in 1660, the renowned French
grammarians of the Port-Royal abbey near Versailles distilled the essence of language,
and no one since has celebrated more eloquently the magnitude of its achievement.

Even so, there is just one flaw in all these hymns of praise, for the homage to languages unique
accomplishment conceals a simple yet critical incongruity.
Language is mankind s greatest invention - except, of course, that it was never invented. This
apparent paradox is at the core of our fascination with language, and it holds many of its
secrets.

C. Language often seems so skillfully drafted that one can hardly imagine it as anything other than the
perfected handiwork of a master craftsman.

How else could this instrument make so much out of barely three dozen measly morsels of sound? In
themselves, these configurations of mouth p, f, b, v, t, d, k, g, sh, a, e and so on - amount to nothing
more than a few haphazard spits and splutters, random noises with no meaning, no ability to express, no
power to explain.

But run them through the cogs and wheels of the language machine, let it arrange them in some very
special orders, and there is nothing that these meaningless streams of air cannot do: from signing the
interminable boredom of existence to unravelling the fundamental order of the universe.

D. the most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn’t have to be a genius to set
its wheels in motion.

The language machine allows just about everybody from pre-modern foragers in the subtropical
savannah, to post-modern philosophers in the suburban sprawl - to tie these meaningless sounds
together into an infinite variety of subtle senses, and all apparently without the slightest exertion. Yet it
is precisely this deceptive ease which makes language a victim of its own success, since in everyday life
its triumphs are usually taken for granted.

The wheels of language run so smoothly that one rarely bothers to stop and think about all the
resourcefulness and expertise that must have gone into making it tick. Language conceals art.
E. Often, it is only the estrangement of foreign tongues, with their many exotic and outlandish features,
that brings home the wonder of languages design.

One of the showiest stunts that some languages can pull off is an ability to build up words of breath-
breaking length, and thus express in one word what English takes a whole sentence to say. The Turkish
word çehirliliçtiremediklerimizdensiniz, to take one example, means nothing less than ‘you are one of
those whom we can’t turn into a town-dweller’.

(In case you were wondering, this monstrosity really is one word, not merely many different words
squashed together - most of its components cannot even stand up on their own.)

F. And if that sounds like some one-off freak, then consider Sumerian, the language spoken on the banks
of the Euphrates some 5,000 years ago by the people who invented writing and thus enabled the
documentation of history.

A Sumerian word like munintuma'a (‘when he had made it suitable for her’) might seem rather trim
compared to the Turkish colossus above.

What is so impressive about it, however, is not its lengthiness but rather the reverse - the thrifty
compactness of its construction.

The word is made up of different slots, each corresponding to a particular portion of meaning.

This sleek design allows single sounds to convey useful information, and in fact, even the absence of a
sound has been enlisted to express something specific.

If you were to ask which bit in the Sumerian word corresponds to the pronoun ‘it’ in the English
translation ‘when he had made it suitable for her’, then the answer would have to be nothing.

Mind you, a very particular kind of nothing: the nothing that stands in the empty slot in the middle.

The technology is so fine-tuned then that even a non-sound, when carefully placed in a particular
position, has been invested with a specific function. Who could possibly have come up with such a nifty
contraption?