[0:00]Welcome back to Learn With Sam And Ash! This is the only complete IELTS free course available on internet and we can proudly say that the most of our students have received their desired bands watching just this course. Before we begin, let me just tell you each and every part of this course is divided in chapters. That means if you go to the description and click on the time, it will take you to that particular chapter in IELTS. We also provide you some data along with this course in order to understand IELTS in a nutshell. The link for the data is in the description. If you need complete data, 30 hours of live sessions, mock tests as well as unlimited feedback, do not forget to visit IELTS class.learnwithsamandash.com. The date on which the batch is starting as well as timing for the sessions are provided on the website. Do not forget to visit it. If you have any doubt about the legitimacy of this course, we got 4.8 out of 5 in Google Review. and you can read the comments as well what people think about our course. Now, let's get back to our main course that is 9 hours and 45 minutes and everything you need in IELTS is here. IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System. In this test, all they do is check your proficiency, you, I mean non-native speakers. Now, what is this proficiency test? Proficiency means checking how good you are in English. And by non-native, I mean people who are living in a country where English is not spoken as the primary language or the first language. Let me tell you and give you an example of country such as Canada, Australia, US, New Zealand. Such countries they are total eight countries. These countries have the first languages English. Apart from that, countries like India, China and most of the Asian countries, African countries, South American, or European, they don't speak English as their first language. They have it as second language or maybe third language. For them, it's must to write this test if they want to go to these countries. For example, I want to go to Australia to study, or let's say I want to go to Canada to work, then I have to write IELTS so that I can show my proficiency. All right. Now, this test has been created by Cambridge University a long time ago. Well, here is not important. Important is to know that it was created by Cambridge University. What does it mean by that and why do we need this information? See, Cambridge is in UK and hence 80% of the English used in IELTS has British accent.

[2:40]Hence, I would recommend start watching British related movies or British accent movies. Most of the Hollywood movies are from US. Hence, you will see accent different, difference, and some of the answers might be incorrect, let's say in listening because of that. All right, we'll see how to solve that problem later, but for now, let's start watching British accent movies. Okay. Moreover, there are types and categories in IELTS. There are three different things that you have to notice or three different types, okay? Some of them are very important to take care of, some of them are okay, you know, you're fine with it, some of them you can be cautious or you can be fine. The first one, IDP and British Council. Let me explain what these things are, you might be hearing this a lot while you're registering for IELTS. Now, as I said, Cambridge created the test and they, as a university, give responsibility to IDP and British Council to take the test in various countries. These institutes or, you know, agencies, you can call them their parts, take care of the test and conduct tests in countries like India, China, and any country. You are given option to choose IDP and British Council. And trust me, both are same.

[3:56]Now, I'll tell you why there are many rumors, misperception, wrong information about this. Let's say I go for first, for the first time to write IELTS. I write with IDP. I book my test with IDP and I don't get the required score. I'll say IDP is horrible, you know, because I have another option, right? I'll say, maybe British Council is better. Instead of accepting what did I, what did go wrong, I'll say IDP is wrong. Same, same for the person who goes for British Council and didn't get the score, they'll curse the British Council rather than their own problems, right? If I get in the first score British Council score, that person will never say there's problem with British Council or IDP. So, trust me, both are same. No difference. You can choose any of them, whichever, for whichever the seat is available. Yeah? Please try to book at least 15 days before the exam. Don't worry about that, I'll talk about this in later sessions or class because there we'll talk about how to book exams and all those stuff. Yeah? All right.

[6:01]The last one is Paper and Online.

[6:06]Now, what does it mean by Paper and Online? Earlier, the test was being conducted just paper test, that means paper and pencil. You have to write all the answers based on paper, you get a question paper, you get a pencil, you write the answer. But now, because every other test is online, so they are planning or they already have conduct started this, that they are taking test online. I recommend, please go for paper. That is paper and pencil. The reason for that is from our first grade till all the time we have studied, even in a work, we write, we enjoy writing in a paper, and we have, we are habitual to that, right? Studying online is a bit of a trouble, I would say, yeah? Because it is, there is study conducted and said that 30% speed decreases while reading in a screen rather than a paper. That's that's the reason when you watch TV, when you watch um videos and you read book after book sometime, you try to go to back to the video because you're really slow. But if you read from a book, it's fun and it's faster. So, please go for paper and pencil, that's my recommendation, and these are the three things, three types or three categories in IELTS. All right? After that, we have something important as well. Which is scoring. How are you scored in IELTS? In IELTS, there's nothing like marks or anything like or points, we have bands. These are the final ones. Now, what is the meaning of these bands, all right? We'll see on that part itself. Bands is a name of a scoring system created by IELTS or let's say Cambridge, where you are scored from 1 to 9. Where 9 is the highest and 1 is the lowest. There's nothing like zero. Zero is when you didn't go or appear for the exam. Right? You will get any score between 1 and 9. Depending on your situation or your requirement, you have to score according to them. If you score 9, that's well and good, it's highest, you don't have to worry about anything, even 8, well and good, no worries. But there's one more, there's a catch. There are four modules in IELTS, that is Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. If in case, you score less in any of these less compared to the requirement, so for an example, I'm a company who wants to hire someone from India, I'm saying in US, let's say. And I want you to come to US and my requirement for my company is let's say eight bands in listening, seven reading, seven writing, seven speaking. In that case, what's going to happen? If you get 6.5 in writing, definitely you are not cleared the exam, you have to write the exam again. So, module wise score and overall score is required. So, they might say something like, eight overall and not less than seven in each. This is how they tell you what you require. I hope you understand what I mean by that. Yeah? Good.

[9:15]Now, there's one more thing that we must know about scoring, that is band and seffer. There's something called bands and there's something called seffer. They're different things, and they're connected in a way which we don't know. Let me make you understand about that. If you look at Seffer, it stands for Common European framework as a reference for languages. It's a way to test the levels in the language. So, there are three different levels, A level, you can call them A1 and A2, B1 and B2, and C1 and C2. So, this is basic, intermediate, and advanced. Right? Now, bands are created from 1 to 9. These bands respond to these levels. So, for an example, 8.5 or 9 is considered 6 C2. So, hence 8.5 to 9 is considered C2. Above this, it's C1. So, basically speaking, they are responding to these levels which are official levels in Europe. If you are learning any other language apart from English, like German, French, there are levels to learn. For example, if you learn A1, you get some score in there, you write another exam. So, you see these are those levels, seffer levels. Band was created by, as I said earlier, Cambridge so that it's easier for them to test others. Because these levels are actually very broad. They wanted something concrete, so these 1 to 9 are concrete. Moving ahead, if you look at here, we have listening and reading. We'll talk only about them for now. Moving ahead, we'll talk about other things which are four modules. In these, we have 40 questions. Now, I'm not saying that I'm going to introduce these listening and reading right now. Only I'm talking about the scoring part. Okay? So, we have 40 questions in both of them. These are similarities. And one point you get for one correct answer. So, you get, let's say, you get um 40 out of 40. Right?

[11:22]So, this will be nine bands. If you get 39 out of 40, you get 8.5 bands in reading. However, in listening, if you get 39 of 40 out of 40, you get still nine bands. So, there are some differences, but what I mean is, one correct answer, one point, and hence 40 points you get, out of 40, whatever you get, based on that, you get your band score. I hope you understand that. What I mean by this is listening and reading are like common in this. But writing and speaking have completely different criteria. So, writing and speaking have something called four criteria. Now, this criteria itself is a plural, we don't have to add s, the singular of criteria is criterion. There are four criteria for writing and speaking, and based on these criteria, they test you and provide you bands. Now, I'll give you an example of each, you know, one, one criteria, um, one criterion of each. The first one, let's say, your vocabulary or let's say lexical resource. The better vocabulary you use in writing, the higher score you get in writing. This is one of the criteria, I mean criteria, trust me, there are many, so there are total four. In speaking, one of them is fluency. Yes? The more fluent you are, the higher score you get. So, not just this, there are three more as I said. When we combine them and test you and they create your score. Okay, not just one person, many people check your paper, like total three, and then they give you the score. See, I'm not saying that I am introducing writing and speaking completely, this is just for to tell you how you are being scored. Now, what happens in writing, what happens in speaking is completely different issue, we'll see that later, okay? This is just for the scoring purpose. Now, most of you must be thinking what which book to go for, you know, there are many books online. Please don't go for online material. They are horrible. They are literally horrible. The reason for them to be horrible is they are not connected to Cambridge. Right? So, the books they create, they are not exactly according to exam or the test. So, you might be getting good score in the online material, you might be getting bad score in the online material, but the exact material which you need we call them the best book. The best book is the Cambridge, the official Cambridge guide to IELTS. So, there's a guide called official Cambridge guide to IELTS. This is in my opinion the best book, it has everything. Yeah? Second book that is required for practice is a series. It's called the Cambridge practice tests for IELTS Series. There's a series ranging from 1 to 14. The 14th is the latest. Please start from 9 to 14, practice only these books. Now, I'm going to provide you a link so that you can directly go and buy those books. Um, these books are the best. You can purchase initially two to three books, that's it, like for example, 12, 13, 14, or just 12 for your practice, and go for the official guide, that's enough. Along with this course and those books, it's enough. Trust me. Okay?

[14:57]Moving ahead, we have to know how many times can I book for the test, you know, how many times is test been conducted, the frequency of the test. So, there's a difference between academic and general training. Academic is conducted 48 times a year. However, general training is conducted 24 times a year. So, you can say, four times a month, here it's, you got to try, 12 times some, I mean, two times a month. Not 12, sorry. So, watch out for people who are writing general training, seats are less compared to academic. Because it's only written two times a month. Okay? Now, of course, you must be thinking how many times can I write IELTS? For example, I tried once and I didn't get the desired score. Can I write many times? No. Please don't do that. Of course, there is no set requirement. You can write as many times as you want. But, I won't recommend it going to it immediately. That's what I mean by don't write many times continuously. Of course, let's say you didn't get the score, so your score requirement was 7.5 for your college or for your work, and you got seven. Now, just after one week of exam, there's a date coming. Don't go for that. Because you didn't look into what's went wrong, what went right, and what kind of module you need to practice. You just went there because you wanted the score again. Don't do that, please. Take time, evaluate yourself, ask me, ask your friends or anyone who has helped you in this, look at the book, what went wrong, what went right. Okay? So, that's what I mean, please don't go for it immediately. It's the wastage of 13 to 14k in that whole process, and of course, you lose confidence. Right? Good. I hope you understand that part, it's important. Now, let's talk about the modules, the the building block of the whole exam, right? Or the whole test. So, there are four modules, as I said earlier, and they need to be evaluated in all the areas in English. For example, not for example, exactly, we have listening. Listening is that you hear some audio. Let me try my drawing. It's okay, I guess. So, listening, you'll be hearing audio for around 30 minutes. There will be breaks in middle, and there will be 40 questions in that. And based on these um questions, I mean, the audio, you'll be answering questions. Of course, there will be break as I said. But it might get a little bit difficult because the language is English, plus accent is British. So, there might be some trouble. This is what happens in listening. You have to write the answer while you're listening to the audio, in the question paper. Of course, this will be declared in detail in later, for example, when we're understanding listening in detail, this is just a module as introduction. In reading, you'll be given a question paper in which you will have some passages. This is a passage, let's say, and here we have questions. Of course, not on the same page, on other pages. You will have to read the questions and find the answer from the passages. This is what reading test is. Okay? It's not just reading, okay? I had a friend, he said, oh, it's just reading, right? I can read fast. I'm like, it's not just reading, you have to find answers from the passages. And also like listening, we have 40 questions, and remember, please, the sequence is always the same which I'm showing you. So, listening comes first, then comes reading, and whatever the modules I'm going to show you. Sequence never changes in IELTS. Okay? Then comes writing. In writing, we have two option, I mean, two things to do, task one and task two. There's a difference in academic and general training. For academic, you got to write a report in part one, for general training, you got to write a letter. For part two, you all have to write an essay, there's no difference in part two. The total time will be 60 minutes, and yes, you have to write an essay, you heard it right. I don't remember when was the last time you wrote an essay. Well, if you ask me, it was like day before yesterday for my practice, just to check how it is, but most of us write essays, um, in our school. Not even in college, college we write exams, right? So, it's a little bit weird and a difficult task in my opinion, so please practice this the most, writing. And the last one is speaking. This will be a formal interview or kind of a test, it will last for 11 to 14 minutes. Now, I wrote it in the last and I'm going to draw a line here for a reason. Well, my line is horrible, horribly, you know, not straight. Now, this part will be taken on a different day. What I mean by different day, this will be taken on the same day. So, total time will be 2 hours and 45 minutes for the whole test. And um, this will be taken on a different day, that means plus or minus five days before or after this test. Let's say I have listening, reading, and writing IELTS test on 25th of July. Then, probably my speaking test will be anything between 20 to 25 or 26 to 30, any of these. Now, how will I know when my test is? You will get a message in on your phone with the registered phone on the website. Of course, a mail as well. And if you have any doubt, you can call the the British Council or IDP, wherever you booked your test. So, this is what you can understand from speaking on a different day. It is the shortest one, and the venue, the date, the timing will be told. Please try to be a little bit earlier. I have seen people who have written these three tests on one day and when this came, they couldn't reach. And of course, when you can't write one, you don't, you won't even give you a score for this. So, it's all gone. Try to be a little bit early based on what what time they gave you. All right? These are the four modules that you have to understand and write. Detailed will be in coming sessions, this is just a mini introduction, right? For you to understand. Now, once you write all the test, that is speaking, after 13 days, you will get your score. And that will be online. That means you will get a registration number. You can check on their website, they'll tell you where to look for. And of course, you'll get a message or a mail that oh, your result is out, please check it. That will be wonderful to get an alert, right? If you want a hard copy, well, you can get it, you know, but it will take some time, like 30 days. It will be sent to you by a post, and you can just, you know, send it to anywhere as a copy. But remember, you will get first online, and then you'll be send hard copy. I hope I'm clear about this. Any doubt about the structure or the IELTS or result, um, please message, I mean, right in the comments or you can ask me through the mail ID which I have provided in my details. Yeah, you can message there. Now, the last but not the least, the passport. See, I have seen plenty of people crying after sometime because of passport. And why does that happen? I'll tell you. It is a must for registration of IELTS. So, let's say I'm going for registration of IELTS and I have all the details filled, and they say, please fill your passport number. And I say, I don't have a passport. They say, please remember, you cannot write the test. The reason for that is simply without a passport, how would you go abroad? And you're writing a test for abroad, so they don't allow you to write IELTS without passport. Now, why did I say many people have messed up? So, let's say my test is in the next month of 25th. I try booking on 5th of the same month, and I recognize I have no passport. Yeah? What's going to happen? I'll go to the agency, I'll go to the the where we can good passport service, and they'll say, it's going to take some time to get passport. Now, you have two options, either give up or pay more to get the passport, like you might get in four days. And by that time, you might miss your seat in IELTS exam. So, please do it right now. If you're planning to write IELTS soon, get your passport ready so that we can register easily. Okay? And this was the end of your session. Listening Module, its structure and grading. Remember, listening module is always first in the sequence. What does it mean by first in the sequence? I think we have discussed this in the introductory video that there are four modules, listening, reading, writing, and speaking. The sequence is never broken. In fact, they always are taken on one day and speaking is on another day. In these three, listening always comes first. Just remember this. The reason to remember this, you have to be ready for the audio and other things. Secondly, it's a relief because see, if this is the first one, you don't have to worry about the earlier one. For an example, in reading, you're already partially exhausted. Hence, you know, your concentration might go down. Hence, listening being first gets a benefit. All right? Moreover, you will get mini breaks between modules. So, like I said, listening, reading, writing, and speaking, of course, speaking on a different day, we can ignore it for now. About listening, reading, and writing, when one test is over, you will be given a break in here. They'll say, we're going to take your paper back, which you have finished, then they'll give you reading test. It's not like you'll be getting all the test in one go. Right? And in again, once reading is over, they're going to take your answer sheet and the question sheet back from you. They'll provide you new question sheet and answer sheet. Okay? So, these breaks will be there for around 1, 1 1/2 minute or more. These breaks help you to relieve, you know, just just get um worry less. Yeah? Now, this is how the question paper looks like. I mean, this is the answer sheet looks like. Question paper, I'll show you later. Why am I showing you the answer sheet? Because this will be provided separately. Right? Question paper doesn't look like this, this is the answer sheet, and it's a blank one. So, basically, once you finish writing in the question sheet, listening to the audio, which I'm going to explain in detail later, you will be writing in here the answers. Here, for example, the first answer is cat. You'll be writing here cat. Second is bad, you'll be writing here bad. This way you have to fill till 40. You have to write your name and number. So, all the details are here. This sheet is important. And this will be provided only once, this sheet. Please try to keep it secure. All right? Now, let's talk about the structure of listening module. Okay? Understanding the structure will help you to get better score by just evaluating it by yourself, yeah? Now, there are 40 questions in your listening test, and there will be four sections. Yes, there's an s missing here, by the way. When we say four sections, each section has 10 questions. Yes, you can see that by itself, and there'll be breaks between sections. Now, what is mean by break, breaks between sections, I've explained once in previous video, and if you have not, um, seen that, let me explain again. So, there are four sections, right? Between these sections, there will be taking breaks. That means they'll stop the audio and let you evaluate or let you see what's happening. What kind of question you'll be bombarded with, okay? That's what I mean by breaks between sections. Just remember, 40 questions, four sections, and in between each section, there'll be breaks.