DESI

IELTS
PREPARATION
GUIDE
TIPS AND TRICKS

BY
ENGR. AMMAR HAIDER
 INTRODUCTION
Recently, I took my IELTS Exam and by the Mercy of Allah I scored an
8 average band. I posted on my Linkedin and got a massive response
in the form of DMs and comments.
So I came to know that there is a immediate need to help my fellow
brothers and sisters to score good in their IELTS Exams.

I didn’t do anything special, I just followed a simple learning strategy

and in 1 month I pepared for the test.

GENERAL MISTAKES
- Dont use online mocktest webiste to prepare for your exam. These website
These website exams are really easy. They create false hope that the
original exam might be easy too.
- Don’t start preparing for IELTS Exam as your Board Exams. You can’t
memorize (ratta) answers as you did in your previous exams
- Don’t Get stressed about the exam, the exam is neither too difficult nor a
piece of cake. Stressing out will always result in bad scores.
- Remember this is a language test, they are not testing how intelligent
or sharp you are. They are trying to test your language skills. They don’t
want to get the right answers from you (in writing and speaking), in most
of the cases they just want to know whether you can have a conversation
or whether you can write some formal emails.
- Don’t use ball points or pointers to solve your IELTS Exam, Always use a lead
pencil so that you can erase and change the answers if you want to.
-

YOUTUBE RESOURCES
Asad Yaqub IELTS
Fastrack IELTS
Raman IELTS
You should use even more youtube channels and learn from everyone.
Every Channel gives you a different technique. Combine all techniques
to make a best technique for yourself.
These Youtube Channels are just the one that came to my mind.
LETS START PREPARING
Download IELTS CAMBRIDGE Books from version 17-11. This is the only
material we will be using to study for the exam.
Search IELTS CAMBRIDGE BOOK 17 PDF on Google and you will be easily able
to download the pdf file.
Use Youtube Channels only to get an understanding of the
QUESTION TYPES in every module.

Remember, the more you practive, the more you are going to score.
You can be bad with english but with practice, I assure you that you too
can sore good.

GENERAL PLAN FOR PREPARATION

Considering that you have one month for your IELTS Exam, I will be dividing
the time to reach the max scores.

There are two modules that everyone can score high in

- Listening
- Reading

Some people say they find getting good scores in listening difficult and
many find reading difficult.
But these two modules are of the core importance.

1 MONTH

WEEK 1 AND 2 WEEK 3 AND 4

Listening Writing

Reading Speaking

This way we will be covering each module. You can shorten or lengthen
the time span according to the time avaialable to you.
LISTENING
Each IELTS CAMBRIDGE BOOK has 4 exams. Each exam has 4 modules
The best way to prepare for a listening exam is to open the book as
PDF on your laptop. Start from the first exam, open the first section
LISTENING. Lets say you start with IELTS CAMRIDGE BOOK 17.
This would look like this

Now Go to Youtube and Search

IELTS CAMBRIDGE 17 LISTENING TEST 1
Now you will be seeing something like this
These Audios are on the same pattern as the official IELTS Exam.
It has the same pauses and breaks. Start the audio from here and
Use the PDF to solve the given blanks on a rough register.
Write Numbers from 1-40 on the register and write your answers in
front of the numbers.
There are total of 40 Questions so try to answer all of them as there
is no negative marking for a wrong answer.

You will get bad scores generally when you start. They might be as
low as 15/40, 18/40. Don’t worry. Everyone was at this same place and
point. You can only improve through practice, practice and practice!

You should get the guidance on question types from youtube channels
For Example
- Fill in the blank
- Match the Heading
- Multiple Choice
- Etc
You will get bad scores generally when you start. They might be as
low as 15/40, 18/40. Don’t worry. Everyone was at this same place and
point. You can only improve through practice, practice and practice!
Only play the audio once even if you miss some answers as the audio
will be played only once in the exam centre.
You have to make sure that you get the first 10 and the last 10 questions
always right. As they are fill in the blanks and easy to answer as
compared to other parts of the test
READING
The Reading module has 3 passage in total. In my experience I found
reading the most tiring and time taking. The passages get harder and
harder as you move up the list. You will have to dedicate exactly a
complete 1 hour for your reading session.
Most of us aren’t fond of reading thus have limited reading skills.
You have to make sure that you set a timer on your mobile and keep track
of your time.

Again Use Youtube to get some idea of the question types

For Example
- Fill in the blanks
- Complete the summary below
- TRUE, FALSE, NOT GIVEN
Etc
If I cover how to handle each question it would take a month. I will be
uploading seperate pdfs for that when I get some time to write for you
guys.

TIPS AND TRICKS

- Don’t skim through the test. As in my experience you will always have to
read the whole text from start to end, to answer the questions.
- Use the questions to your advantage as the answer of a question is
always in an order.
- Try to complete your reading tests under 50 mins as you will be stressed
in the exam hall and would probably take more time there. So be
prepared ahead of time
 TIPS AND TRICKS
- Give reading module the most time out of the 4 modules as it is
generally difficult for everyone
- Dedicate the whole 1 hour to reading and note your completion time.
Keep improving your time untill you get to around 50min
- Divide the time you will be spending on each passage
e.g 15min on first, 15 on second and 15 on third and then try to get
the passages done in even lesser time
- If you don’t find an answer to a question for more than 2 min, skip it for
the end or you’ll miss other answers as well. Mark the missing question
to get back to it at the end
- Note that you will get 10 min extra time after listening test to transfer your
answers to the answer sheet. But You won’t get any extra time to transfer
your answers in the reading module so Transfer the answers as you solve
them

- This Document is not complete. I will be adding in more details and

tricks as I get some leisure time. Meanwhile you can take help from
this and start practicing