I've just taken my computer-based IELTS exam in London. Here is my result. Last year I also took a paper-based exam and I got a band 9 score in my IELTS Listening. So in this content I want to share my tips with you. I'm going to make similar videos about each section of the IELTS exam and publish them in the coming weeks. 

Now let's get started! let me quickly tell you about the test format and then we dive into tips so IELTS listening is the same in both academic and general training management essay writing help exams it lasts for 30 minutes and includes 40 questions which are split into four sections and questions get harder as you progress through the test you need to answer 30 questions correctly to get a 7 or 35 questions to get an 8 and I would say the main difficulty of IELTS listening is the lack of time.

So I'm going to talk about how you can manage your time more effectively during this test in order to answer more questions if you take a paper-based exam you're going to get question sheets and an answer sheet so while you're listening to the recording you mark your answers on question sheets and then event you're going to get extra ten minutes to transfer your answers that's more than enough time.

If you take a computer-based exam you answer directly on the screen so you don't need those ten minutes and they're only going to give you two basically that's enough to check your answers you may only need to check those where you write down type words and check your spelling you may need to think about how to spell a certain words so that's it two minutes was enough for me a big advantage of a computer-based test is that you always get earphones and you can hear everything clearly in a paper-based exam you may get earphones in some of the centers but quite often you're just in a room full of people with loud speakers and it's not as clear at all I actually have a separate video where I talk about all the differences between a paper-based and computer-based exam and you can watch it to decide which format is better for you I'm going to link it here as listening is a hard test because it's difficult to understand what they're saying in there recording but because you need to listen read and write almost at the same time it's a test of your concentration and ability to manage your time your seconds in a very precise way basically I know that if I put myself in a situation where I read the question for the first time while listening to the recording I'm unlikely to find out so I'm just going to miss it so I need to read questions before I listen to the recording and let the idea in the test.