How to get Band 8 in IELTS Reading
This may sound like a ‘million dollar question’ but the fact is that many of my students have achieved this and even 8.5 and 3 got band 9 recently. So given a good level of English and the right techniques then Band 8 is really possible.
So what is stopping you?
I would imagine it is a mix of things. Generally when I begin to work with students I discover several things that they are doing which need to stop. I have written about these may times and they are the ‘rules’ and so-called ‘tricks’ that you can find all around the internet. They don’t really work and they are not helping you to get a high band. Things like – everything is in order - read just the first and last sentences of each paragraph – skim the whole text to get the main points. I don’t want to go over these in this article but rather be more positive about what you should be doing.