Get Band 9 After Using These Reading Tips – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.you just find The Ultimate Guide to IELTS reading this is the longest most detailed most comprehensive guide to IELTS reading you'll find anywhere on the Internet it's going to help you understand things about the format of the test tips and strategies that only band nine students really understand we're also going to give you a strategy that is going to help you constantly improve the thousands of my students have used to get a band 9

2.not only that we're also going to give you two of our VIP step-by-step strategies for true false not given and matching headings and at the end I'm going to give you one of our VIP practice tests for free and show you exactly how to get 40 out of 40 by giving you a complete step-by-step walkthrough demo of the practice test so sit back relax and get ready to improve your IELTS reading score so let's start off by talking about the IELTS reading format one thing that IELTS band 9 students who get about nine in Reading understand is that General training and academic are the same but different what does that mean so one of the key differences is that on the academic test you will get academic texts these will be the kind of text that you would find in a university textbook and general training students don't have academic texts they have General text these could be any text that you find in everyday life but what is exactly the same is the types of questions that you will get and the strategies that you will use for those questions so on both academic and general training you'll get multiple choice you'll get true false not given you will get matching headings and you should approach them in exactly the same way so what about nine students normally do is they will practice using both academic tests on General training tests because they understand that it is exactly the same strategy and types of questions and band 9 students also understand that General training and academic are the same difficulty that is because for General training you need a score of 40 out of 40 to get about nine but for academic you can get one wrong you can get 39 out of 40 and still get about nine and to be honest the only people who think that General training is much easier than academic or people who do the academic test and fail to get the score that they need it's just a way of making themselves feel better by breaking other people down to their level the second big thing the band 9 students understand about the reading test format is that there are three sections and it gets progressively more difficult as you go through the three sections so section one is the easiest section section two gets a little bit more difficult and sections 3 is the most difficult now why is this why do they do this well Band 3 really separates out about seven band eight and band 9

3.if you think about it they ask you the more difficult questions at the end so that someone who maybe has full marks but is really at about eight level they'll get the last couple of questions wrong and that brings them down to the real level which is about eight well that's the theory anyway but generally it works quite well that way so band 9 students don't just start practicing and automatically get about nine normally the students that we work with that eventually get about nine start off and get a 7.5 or an 8 or an 8.5 and when they get those scores they don't panic they understand that they need to focus in on those questions that they get in section three those questions that they get Incorrect and figure out why they got those Incorrect and we'll talk a lot more about that in the rest of this video the other significant thing related to this point is that by nine students tend to spend a lot less time on Section 1 compared to section two and section three because band line students think strategically about time what a band-9 student doesn't do is spend an equal amount of time on each question that is just a bad system a bad strategy because what that does is you'll spend too much time on the easier questions and not enough time on the more difficult questions online students spend very little time on the first part and most of their time in the middle and towards the end and we'll talk a lot more about strategy in terms of time management later on in this video we'll show you how to get everything done on time and what band 9 students do very very differently when it comes to time management than all the other students the third big big thing and this is probably the biggest thing when it comes to the difference between band 9 students and you know band six and seven students is the band 9 students understand that there are many many different types of questions that you might get you might get true false not given multiple choice labeling questions and short answer questions matching headings questions and on and on and on and on my band 9 students understand why IELTS ask you all of these different questions what they're doing is they're testing a range of different reading skills and sub skills in different orders therefore crucially what bar 9 students do is they have a separate strategy for each of the different types of question that might come up bonds six and seven students what they generally do is they will have one strategy for all of the different types of questions I've never met a bandine student that did that every band 9 student that I have worked with has consistently showed me that they have a separate strategy for all of the different types of of questions it takes more work to learn that but did you really think the band 9 students worked less than band five and band Six students and don't worry we'll show you how to use those strategies and give you some of those strategies later on in the video now let's talk about computer-based versus paper-based are there any Trends do by nine students do paper more than computer-based the short answer is no there's no real connection between a Bandai student and like if they go and do it on the computer that they will generally get a much much higher score remember they are testing your ability to read in English they're not testing your ability to read on paper or read on a screen however a lot of students have commented that doing it on a computer is less stressful and more convenient it does not boost your marks but it does reduce stress and it's just easier to do for example if it is a multiple choice question you can just click it on the screen a lot of students say that that is much much easier than transferring your answers over so if you have a choice I would choose the computer-based one but it's not really going to improve your score now let's talk about time management do band 9 students have some secret band 9 time management strategy tips no they are better at reading what does that mean well think about a race think about Usain Bolt running in the hundred meters did Usain Bolt the night before the Olympic final go on Google top 10 magic time management tips for running no he was probably sleeping what he did was for years practice running and become better at running he wasn't faster than the other guys he was better at running this is exactly the same with band 9 students I have never met a bar 9 student that improved to about nine because they got some magic band 9 time management tips they were constantly improving their ability to read in English also what they did was as I said before they had separate strategies for each of the different types of questions and they memorized those strategies by heart if you put a true false not given question in front of them or a multiple choice question in front of them they didn't even think about what the strategy was they'd done it so many times that they just used it the example I always use is riding a bike or tying your shoelaces you don't have to think about riding a bike or think about tying your shoelaces you've done it so many times that you do it naturally that's exactly what Bond line students do and that leads to them completing everything very very quickly when I did the test I got about nine in 20 minutes that's not because of time management it's because it's my job to do do this and I'm very very good at reading finally band 9 students understand the different skills that are needed but most importantly when to use those skills and in what order so they don't just skim and scan and then find the correct answer they do it completely different from other students and we'll talk about that in the skills section of this video I hope you're enjoying this video on reading but if you really want to improve your IELTS reading I have a free course for you that is even better than anything that we cook on YouTube It's called The IELTS reading challenge what it's going to do is give you strategies for all of the different types of questions 100 free and also show you where you can find real reliable practice tests and strategies that will help you constantly improve your IELTS reading score if you want to sign up for free just click the link in the description enter your email address and we'll send you all of that information for free now back to the video okay let's give you some tips and tricks that bar nine students normally use to improve their score number one Bond line students understand that the IELTS reading test is a vocabulary test not just a reading test what does that mean well during the reading test you're constantly going to be looking at the questions and looking at the text and there will be lots of words in the questions that will be synonyms in the text so you have to have a wide-ranging vocabulary in order to find the location of the correct answer to understand what that sentence what that word means and decide the correct answer so often students will come to me and say I keep getting 6.5 or 6 or 7

4.I don't know how to improve my reading skills often it is not a problem with the reading skills or anything else it is just their vocabulary is an issue but another thing the bar 9 students understand is the best way to improve your vocabulary is reading when you are reading if you see a word that you do not understand note it down in your notebook look up the meaning add synonyms add all the information you need and then you will have a vocabulary notebook full of new words so you will be practicing reading improving your reading skills and improving your vocabulary all at the same time all of the band 9 students that I've worked with have followed that system the second tip the band 9 students follow is you will not understand every word in the text and that's okay when I did the test there were a lot of words that I simply did not understand English is a huge language if English professors from Oxford and Cambridge looked at some of the reading texts there would be a few words in there that they might not understand and by my students understand that this is totally natural if you move to an English-speaking country and you're working or you're studying there you're constantly going to be finding new words that you don't understand that doesn't mean that you can't read and understand the sentence so what bound 9 students do is they deploy systems when they are practicing their reading when they're reading in general to cope with this and actually use it to improve their reading and improve their vocabulary so one thing that bar nine students do is they get used to guessing the meaning from Context what does this mean well if you are reading a sentence and there's a word in that sentence that you do not understand what about nine students do is they don't panic and go oh my God I'm terrible at English they look at the word and they guess what that word means based on the words around it based on the context and this forces them to be constantly using this skill guessing meaning from Context and then what they do is they look up the meaning of the word after they guess it and 95 of the time or even more than that they have guessed the meaning correctly so this means that you don't have to be constantly looking at your iPhone and dictionaries and apps that are showing you the meaning of stuff this is how native English speakers read native English speakers aren't constantly checking up words and dictionaries they guess what it means from Context and also band 9 students don't panic when they do not understand a word so often you will see a word and you'll look at the words around it you'll try to guess the meaning but you still won't be sure a lot of the time it is not essential that you understand the meaning of that word to find the correct answer so the biggest difference between about seven student and about nine students in this context is all about mindset the bond six the bond seven student will panic panic and stress during the IELTS test is not a good strategy to have by nine student we'll look at that word do I need to know this no let's move on remember your job is not to understand all of the words your job is to get as many correct answers as possible tip number three my students read actively not passively what's the difference between active reading and passive reading or passive reading so when you're reading a book and you're not really doing anything you're just reading for enjoyment you're just reading for reading's sake active reading is when you are reading but you are doing something at the same time you're actively trying to work on something so that could be trying to improve your reading skills your vocabulary your grammar your spelling and we've already given you an example of that in this video remember we said that when a student sees an unusual word a word they don't really understand instead of just moving on they practice the skill of guessing meaning from Context or they try to improve their vocabulary by writing it down in their vocabulary notebook they're actively improving and actively doing something every single band night student that I've worked with has used this technique to improve their weaknesses so if you want to buy online you're going to have to read anyone who thinks that they're going to get a band 9 in Reading without reading is insane so now that you've accepted that you're going to have to spend time reading in English you have a choice read passively which will lead to pretty much zero Improvement or read actively and now that you've taken the smart decision to read actively what should you try and improve your biggest weaknesses so if you suck at spelling when you see a new word and you're like that looks weird the spelling looks weird write it down write the correct spelling done if you need to improve your grammar let's say you need to improve your use of punctuation when you're reading notice where the commas are why is a comma after there why is there no comma there it does sound a lot like hard work but 10 minutes of active reading will improve you a lot more than one hour of passive reading so which is more work an hour of passive reading and then you go and fail the test or 10 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes of really intense focus and then you get the score that you need tip number four Bond nine students really read the instructions carefully I know that it's boring I know that you're under pressure I know that you're stressed out you just want to go and attempt the questions my nine students tend to be a lot calmer read the instructions and do exactly what the instructions do and they understand before the test you know what does one word only or two words and or a number what do those things actually mean tip number five band nine students are very very good at spelling many of the Bands six band seven students that we work with have equally as good vocabulary and reading skills and they're just as good at reading as a band eight or about nine student but their spelling is poor and if it is one letter out it is wrong and I know many students complain about that band 9 students don't complain about that they just follow the rules get better and give the examiners what they want so how do you improve that active reading you're starting to see a pattern here Bond mind students as I've said before are not born by nine students they didn't come out of the womb being able to read and get 40 out of 40

5.they all had weaknesses just like you had weaknesses but what they did was they understood what those weaknesses are we'll show you how to do that later on this video and then they actively worked on those so if you need to improve your spelling every time you make a spelling mistake note it down and then write the correct spelling beside it what you will start to notice are patterns you'll start to notice particular types of words or individual words that you just have a problem spelling then you can do an 80 20 analysis on that you know are there words that every time you spell them or types of words you make a mistake if you improve that weak area you're eliminating 80 90 of your mistakes tip number six Bond nine students practice slow and fast what does that mean well imagine you are learning how to drive a car on day one does the driving instructor take you away to the motorway and say drive at 100 miles an hour no that would be crazy but a lot of bond six Bond 7 students do that what they do is they try and get everything done in 60 Minutes on and then when they failed to get a high score they beat themselves up and they're like I'm terrible at reading no you're not terrible at reading you just aren't ready to go at full speed so what bar nine students generally do is when they are beginning their practice especially when they're learning new strategies or they're working on their weaknesses they practice extremely slowly they might take you know let's say six true false not given questions and they might spend half an hour or an hour just working on those six questions because what they are doing is not trying to get the correct answer they're trying to perfect the strategy and learn the strategy and that simply takes time but what they do is they get faster and faster so some of the online students that I've worked with when they first started they were taking three or four hours to do a practice test and then they would go to two and a half hours and then to two and then to one and a half and then one minute 15 and then one minute five and then eventually they were getting to an hour I know many of you want to be told how to magically get a band 9 in 60 minutes today you should go and watch one of the other channels if that is what you are after you're going to get the truth here we aren't going to lie to you here and give you you know tips and tricks that are going to guarantee that you get a high score immediately but let me share with you the best strategy that I've ever used with students that has produced more by nine students than any other let's look at the ultimate band 9 strategy for IELTS reading what you will need are two or three real practice tests do not use fake tests that you find online get the real Cambridge books for this number two do these under exam conditions what does exam conditions mean number one don't do tests that you know the answers don't cheat do it as if you are really in the test which means you've seen this test for the first time the day you do it and the second part is that you do it in 60 minutes and again no cheating if you cheat you're only cheating yourself and the system the strategy will not work step 3 go to the back of the book and find out how many questions you got wrong if it is spelled incorrectly if you made a silly mistake don't give yourself the correct answer it is wrong again you're only cheating yourself you need to really find out which questions are wrong step number four and this is the most important part why did you get those questions wrong what we're looking for here are patterns so for example if eighty percent of your incorrect answers are spelling mistakes then spelling is your key weakness it could be vocabulary if you couldn't find the answer because you didn't understand the words that is a vocabulary issue or it could be particular types of questions so if you did three tests and every time you've seen a true false not given question you got most of those wrong then that's a strategy issue with that particular type of question or if you got most of the questions correct in Parts one and two but most of the questions wrong in section three then that's normally a reading skills or a vocabulary issue or up just might be that you got most questions correct up until the 60 minutes and then you got a lot of questions wrong because you didn't finish on time that's normally a skills or a vocabulary but most importantly a strategy issue you just need to understand the different strategies that are going to help you get everything done efficiently now that you understand what your weaknesses are we go on to the final step which is the most difficult step but is the most important step you need to work on those weaknesses if you have a problem with spelling you need to improve your spelling vocabulary improve your vocabulary strategy you need to improve your strategy we'll show you how to improve those things later in the video but if you just look at it and start crying and start complaining oh I'm terrible at spelling we all suck at different things we are all bad at different things the difference between people who are successful and unsuccessful is the unsuccessful people generally cry about it the successful people they feel uncomfortable but they continue to work and turn those weaknesses in the strengths that's the real difference between about nine student and everyone below them this video is sponsored by us IELTS advantage and IELTS VIP course the IELTS VIP course is the most successful IELTS course in the world that is a fact because we have more bands seven eight and nine success stories than any other IELTS course in the entire world we do that by simplifying the whole IELTS process supporting you with some of the best IELTS teachers in the world and being with you every step of the way until you get the score that you need to thank you for making it this far in the video I want to give you 10 off our VIP course all you have to do is just look down in the description you will see our special link that you need to get 10 off just click that and you can sign up if you have any questions about the VIP course always feel free to get in touch with us Chris at ieltsadvantage.com is my email address we answer a hundred percent of the questions that we get hope that you become a VIP if not enjoy the rest of this free video okay now that you know the ultimate band 9 strategy part of that strategy is finding real practice tests so let's talk about that now where to find these and where not to find them so there are only four sources of practice tests one is the British Council two is IDP three is Cambridge English and four are the Cambridge English books any other source is not a reliable source don't waste your time in the comments and ask well what about real genuine practice tests we promise they're real.com or we promise we're not a fake IELTS company.com like don't waste your time they are not reliable they are all fake if you are using fake tests you're taking a huge risk because the people making these fake test the only reason they make them is not to help IELTS students is to make money if you click on their website then they're going to make money from you they are very very very rarely IELTS experts there's a huge difference between someone who runs an IELTS YouTube channel or an IELTS website on a real IELTS expert it takes decades to be able to produce these tests reliably so the people making these tests will either make them really really easy or more commonly really really difficult so if they make them too easy you will get a high score during your practice test and you'll be like great I'm ready for my test you'll go and spend your 300 and you'll fail or if they are too difficult you will lose confidence and you will never do the test because you think that you're going to fail and it just adds a huge amount of stress and worry and just general negativity to your life these people do not care about you they care about their bank accounts do not help them by using their fake tests and there are so many real genuine tests that you can buy or use for free which brings us on to our next Point probably not in the comments there are people writing but the Cambridge past paper books are so expensive yes they are but they're also not really listen I totally understand that many of you do not come from money you don't have you know twenty five thirty dollars to just spend on a book but spending the money on those books and I have no affiliation with Cambridge I don't make any money if Cambridge makes money spending money on those books is one of the best investments you can ever make because you're not going to fail your test which is going to save you at least three hundred dollars if you fail your test three times which is about the average for most students not you because you're watching my videos you're going to get the score that you need next time but the average student is spending you know to a thousand dollars on test fees but won't spend twenty five dollars on practice tests that is insane also if you think about it why are you doing the IELTS test probably so you can go to a prestigious University and get an amazing education which will make you cumulatively millions of dollars in the future or to move to a better paying job in a new country which again over the next 10 20 years you're probably going to earn millions of dollars if you are really really you just do not have twenty five dollars I understand we'll put links in the description to where you can find the free practice test from the British Council IDP and Cambridge or all you have to do is just go to Google and write IELTS reading practice test and then plus British Council IDP or Cambridge English now let's talk about reading skills like skimming and scanning and what bar 9 students understand about these skills that most students don't so there are three core skills that all students use when they are reading and everybody uses these on a day-to-day basis so let's start off with skimming so something we all do every day is read a newspaper is it either a physical newspaper or we click on to the news online when you click on a story it is extremely rare for a person to read every single word carefully what most people do is they will skim through the article to get the general meaning of what that article is trying to tell you this is exactly the same skill that we use when we are doing the reading test so we will look at a paragraph and we will read through it quite quickly in order to understand generally what that paragraph is about so for example if you get a matching headings question what they are testing is your ability to understand the general meaning of each paragraph and you will not have time to read every word carefully so you will look at each of the paragraphs and you will skim through it quite quickly in order to understand the general meaning oh that's quite different from the skill of scanning so I want you to imagine you're going to the cinema and you look at the movie times for the cinema do you read every single movie time or do you just scan to find the name of the movie you want to go to and then scan for the time that is convenient for you we're not reading everything we are looking for specific information we also use this in the reading test so for example if we were doing a true false not given question and we were trying to find the location of the correct answer we would scan for those words from the question or synonyms from those words not to find the correct answer but to find the location of the correct answer because these skills are just tools that are helping us find the correct answer but the third and most important skill is something called close reading and this is something that bad nine students use more than any other this is reading carefully around the area where you think the correct answer is located so you've identified the position the location of the correct answer and then you're reading that passage very very carefully you're also reading the question carefully and then deciding the correct answer close reading is the most important skill because it helps you find the correct answer but it's also the skill most overlooked by about six or about 7 or band H student whereas a bond nine student they're spending a lot of their time a lot more of their time close reading but what about 9 students really understand about these skills is when to use them and when not to use them and in what order to use them so let's talk about reading strategy now so on a very basic level a strategy is just telling you what to do and in what order to do so step one do this step two do this step three do this so some strategies will tell you to skim first and then scan other strategies will have no skimming whatsoever and they'll tell you to scan first other strategies will really focus on understanding the questions other strategies they'll be more of a focus on the actual text every question is different all the types of questions are different because they're testing different skills and different sub skills and I know that sounds very overwhelming but you need to remember that strategies are there to remove overwhelm all you have to do is memorize them practice them and then you'll be able to use them effectively and all they really are is a guide so I want you to imagine we decide to climb Mount Everest and we are the world's greatest mountain climbers but what every mountain climber no matter how good they are what they need to do is they need to hire a sherpa a sherpa is a guide they know where all the dangerous roots are so we can avoid them they know where all the danger points are and they know the most efficient and most convenient route of the mountain strategies act as your Sherpa they are your guide Bond line students even though their reading skills are vocabulary is very very very high they still need strategies to guide them to the correct destination and that's all strategies are they are not Magic on the flip side I want you to imagine now that we decide to climb Mount Everest and we are terrible mountain climbers our fitness is terrible you know we can hardly walk we are not very good at climbing we could get the world's best sharper the world's best guide and we would struggle to even get to base camp strategies are not magic you'll see a lot of these videos online especially on YouTube you know use this magic secret strategy to guarantee a bad line they are useful and will go through how useful they are and we'll teach you those but they are only part of the equation without using the other stuff in this video and improving your weaknesses and improving your skills and your reading strategies and your reading ability and vocabulary you won't be able to get a button line okay so the most confusing part of true false not given is true false not given a lot of students are used to true false and they have no problems with true and false questions but once you throw not given in there it can be quite confusing and quite difficult so what I'm going to do is demonstrate a little technique that we teach our VIP students that will remove any confusion for you so what you need is a pen and a piece of paper I'm going to demo this first and then I'm going to ask you to do it at home so what you're going to do is at the top of the page you're going to write question statement and then what you're going to do is you're going to think of a fact about you all right I'm going to demo it about me because I am me but think about something that is true about you could be your name it could be your age your nationality something that is a fact so Chris is 40 years old so this is a fact about me so imagine this is in your questions all right so this is part of the question part of true false not given what we're going to do now is we're going to write a statement the text that is true all right we're going to write a true statement that matches this fact so what I'm going to do is I am going to write Chris was born on 16th of December 1982