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Most IELTS students are preparing for the test completely backwards.
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Most IELTS students are preparing for the test completely backwards.
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They're memorizing vocabulary lists, learning complex grammar templates and following advice that sounds right,
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but actually makes their score worse.
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I know this because I've spent over ten years helping thousands of students get a band seven,
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eight and even nine.
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And because I watched my own wife waste thousands of dollars failing the test over and over again,
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many, many years ago.
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She followed everything her teacher told her and got nowhere.
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It wasn't until I built her a completely different system that everything changed.
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So if I could go back in time and teach her again from scratch,
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the first thing I'd change is the mistake that cost her the most time and money.
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So before I was an IELTS teacher,
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I used to teach just general English in a big language center.
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And I'd see IELTS examiners in that center marking IELTS tests every single day.
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And almost all of them had a box of headache tablets sitting right next to their papers.
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When I asked them why they took so many headache tablets,
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they said two words, headache essays.
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A headache essay is one that is so overloaded with complicated vocabulary
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and grammar that it literally gives the examiner a headache trying to figure out what the person was trying to say.
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And this was actually what my wife was doing
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because her teacher had given her a list of band 9 vocabulary and a set of complete complex sentence templates.
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The idea that her IELTS teacher had was quite simple.
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More complexity equals a higher score.
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But I wanted to check whether that was actually true.
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So I took all the official Cambridge books,
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the ones that have band 8 and band 9 samples at the back,
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and I ran all those essays through software that measures language complexity.
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And what I found was the opposite of what everyone was teaching.
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The highest scoring essays produced by Cambridge were the simplest ones,
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with the lowest amount of complex vocabulary and grammar.
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And then I took all of my wife's essays,
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and they had far more complex words and sentences,
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exactly what the examiners were calling headache essays.
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So I went back to our teacher,
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and I asked him about this,
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and he said something I'll never forget.
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Of course we know simpler writing scores higher,
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but students want vocabulary lists.
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They want templates.
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And if we don't give them that,
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they just go to another school.
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And that's the moment that I realized that the problem wasn't my wife's English or her writing.
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The problem was who she was listening to.
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Her teacher knew the truth
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and he chose to tell her what she wanted to hear instead of what she needed to hear.
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If I were teaching my wife again from day one,
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the first thing I'd tell her is find people who will be brutally honest with you about what you need to do,
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even if you don't want to hear it.
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The thing I say to my students is,
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you will hate me when I'm giving you feedback,
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but you will love me on results day.
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And that's the most important thing.
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But understanding this was just the first step
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because the way my wife was actually preparing day to day was still completely wrong.
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And that's what cost us the most time.
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So let me take you through a typical day,
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what it looked like when she was preparing.
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So she'd wake up and do some listening practice
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because someone on YouTube told her to do a listening practice test every day.
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Then she'd spend an hour memorizing lists of vocabulary.
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And in the evening, she'd watch two or three IELTS tips videos from different teachers,
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all saying different things.
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So she was busy every day and felt tired at the end of every day.
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But then she was getting frustrated because she wasn't seeing any improvement.
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That is one of the most frustrating things in the world when you're working hard,
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but you're not seeing any progress.
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So the problem for most students isn't that they are lazy.
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The opposite is actually true.
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They're working extremely hard, but with no direction, no focus.
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So the example I always give to my students is,
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imagine I drop you into the center of London,
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and I tell you to go and find Buckingham Palace.
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And I say, just follow the signs and ask a few people,
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and you'll make it there.
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Or you put Buckingham Palace into Google Maps,
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and it will take you directly there in the simplest,
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shortest, most direct route.
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That's exactly what a real study system does.
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It understands where you are right now and exactly what you need to do to get to your target score.
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If I were teaching my wife again,
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I would never let her sit down and study without a clear step-by-step roadmap that was personalized to her.
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So what does that actually mean?
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Well, I would sit down and I would actually look at her essays.
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I would do practice speaking tests with her.
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I would get her to do writing tests and listening tests and then analyze all of her mistakes.
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That would allow me to find out the most important thing,
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which is what are her exact weaknesses and what do we need to do to turn each of those weaknesses into strengths.
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And we would do that by creating like a step-by-step study roadmap that just focuses on closing those gaps.
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So that's why we say that's like Google Maps for IELTS preparation.
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It not only saves you time,
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but it reduces stress significantly because you feel like you're working on the right things and making progress every day.
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But even with a perfect study plan,
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you can make one big mistake that means that you'll fail over and over again.
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And this is the one big mistake that cost her the most money.
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So my wife was writing essays every single day.
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Her teacher told her that that was the key to success.
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And that's half true.
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Practice is important, but
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if you have no one to actually look at your essays who is an actual expert
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and tell you where you're going right,
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where you're going wrong, it's a huge waste of time.
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So when I looked at the feedback on her essays,
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it said things like improve vocabulary,
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improve ideas, make sentences more complex.
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But what does that actually mean?
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She didn't know what a good idea or a bad idea was.
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So how could she improve her ideas?
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Even though the paper was covered in red,
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there was nothing showing her this is exactly why this is wrong and this is how to fix it.
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She was just reinforcing lots of bad habits and lots of mistakes because the teacher never made her aware of this.
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And this wasn't really the teacher's fault.
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Problem was is that he was a teacher.
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He wasn't a former examiner.
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So he didn't really know himself what to look out for.
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And this is not a criticism of teachers in any way.
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I'm just telling you what actually happened.
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So she was paying someone to make her writing and speaking worse
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and then going and doing the test and throwing away even more money,
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which is incredibly frustrating.
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So if I could go back in time
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and give her advice on how to actually save money
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while getting better is to only work with a qualified former examiner to look at her writing
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and listen to her speaking and tell her exactly what is wrong with that.
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Now, many people might say,
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including my wife at the time,
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but those teachers are more expensive.
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And there's a saying in English,
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if you think hiring an expert is expensive, try hiring an amateur.
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So trying to save a few dollars today by finding a cheaper teacher,
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but throwing away thousands in test fees,
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sounds crazy when you think about it,
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but many of you watching right now are doing exactly that.
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You are looking for the cheapest teacher rather than the best teacher.
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Every day, every month, every year,
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you are not working in America or Australia or UK or Canada.
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You're throwing away all that extra salary that you could be earning.
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But I still haven't told you about the number one reason for failure,
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not just with my wife,
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but this is the number one reason why thousands of students failed.
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And it is actually quite easy to fix.
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So in general, there are two types of students.
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Let's call them student A and student B.
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Student A knows the test is coming up soon.
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They book the test, and then they try and figure out how to get that score.
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Then we have student B who doesn't book the test.
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What they do is they find out what level they're at now
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and what they need to do to get to the level
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that they need to be at to get the score that they need.
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And they don't book the test until they are 100% ready.
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Which one do you think 90% of students are, including my wife?
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Student A.
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About 10% of people or student B,
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but student B is pretty much guaranteed to get the score that they need.
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Student A will struggle over and over and over again.
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And this is exactly what my wife did.
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She would just see, oh,
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in six weeks, there's a test coming up or in four weeks,
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book it and then just panic and start studying and trying and hoping for the best.
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Hope is not really a strategy.
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You're not going to get lucky.
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The only way that you will pass is to understand exactly where you are
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and exactly what you need to do to get to that level.
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And it is all about just making that decision.
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This is actually the first thing in the first video on our VIP course.
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I'll give you a little sneak peek of our VIP course.
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The very first thing we say is do not book your test until we tell you that you are ready.
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Because that pretty much guarantees you're going to get the score that you need.
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Sounds super obvious and super simple,
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but it probably is the most profound and effective advice you will ever hear.
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So if I could go back,
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I would just tell my wife,
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don't book the test until an expert tells you you are ready to get the scores that you need.
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And she would have saved months of her life
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because she wouldn't have had to do the test over and over again and thousands of dollars.
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And that leads us to the final thing that I would tell her,
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Something that has nothing to do with English at all.
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But my wife says mattered more than anything else.
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Every IELTS video you'll watch focuses on strategies and techniques and how to improve your English,
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which are valuable.
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But it is not as powerful as what I'm about to share with you.
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None of them talk about what it actually feels like to be preparing for the IELTS test.
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Just coping with the stress of knowing your whole future is determined by a score on a piece of paper.
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My wife knew that if she didn't get the score that she needed,
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her family would be stuck in a country she didn't really want to live in anymore.
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And she'd walk into the exam room thinking about
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that instead of thinking about how do I write a clear essay
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or how do I clearly answer questions in the speaking test.
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Her brain would actually shut down from all of the stress.
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So it didn't matter how good her English was or how many techniques or strategies she learned,
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until she was able to fix this stress problem,
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nothing was going to help her.
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So you can be completely prepared and still underperform.
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Some of you watching this video will know exactly what I'm talking about.
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You feel that you're ready.
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Maybe you did practice tests and you got the score that you needed.
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But on test day, you were so overwhelmed with stress that you couldn't perform at the level that you're capable of.
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So if I had to start over with my wife,
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I'd address these types of things from day one,
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not just stress, not just how to manage anxiety,
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but things like how to stay focused during preparation,
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how to stay focused during the test,
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how to deal with negative feedback and mistakes and setbacks,
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how to walk into that exam room calm and in control and knowing that you will get the score that you need.
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This is why we added a mindset course to our VIP course and it's actually the first course students do.
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We force people to do the mindset course before we talk about writing
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or reading or speaking or listening because it is so important.
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And if you listen to all of the success stories we have,
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most of them actually talk about the mindset course
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and how it was more important than the actual IELTS lessons that we teach.
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Now the IELTS lessons are good,
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they do help, but you need to fix
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that mindset part of the equation first before you can perform at the level you need to be at.
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So in the end, what I decided to do was learn how to teach IELTS myself
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and I took over my wife's IELTS preparation and taught her myself.
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And after weeks of preparing with this new approach,
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the big day finally arrived for my results day and my wife had done everything differently this time.
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She stopped trying to impress the examiner with fancy vocabulary and structures.
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She'd followed a structured roadmap instead of jumping from random tip to random tip
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and I also found qualified former examiners with more than a decade of experience to do practice tests with her,
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to do speaking tests and look at her writing and give her feedback and show her exactly what she needed to fix.
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And most importantly
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she didn't book the test until we told her she was ready
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and she was able to walk into the exam room knowing
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that she was a hundred percent sure going to get the score
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that she needed because she had done so many practice tests with us
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and she had got some great feedback
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and we had told her no matter what happens but
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if you follow this system you are going to get the score
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that you need
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but even though she was calm on test day she wasn't very calm on results day
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and when she got the email her hands were shaking
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so much she couldn't even tap into the email to get a result so she handed me the phone
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We took a deep breath,
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tapped the screen, band 7.5.
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So more than enough for her visa.
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We put our house up for sale
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and three weeks later We landed in Dublin and I'll never forget watching my son on that first day
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running through those green fields breathing in that fresh air in the country he was supposed to grow up in.
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And 10 years later, we're still living in the same amazing area and we have one more addition.
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William, actually two more additions.
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Now we have our dog, Nuki.
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So that's what I would do if I could go back in time and help my wife.
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But unfortunately, time machines don't exist.
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But the good news for you is everything
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that I've learned in more than 10 years of helping thousands of students get a band 7,
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8, and 9, I've put into our VIP course and our VIP system. So
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if you join today we will look at your writing listen
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to your speaking find out exactly where you are what score you're at why you're at
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that score and then design a personalized roadmap showing you step by step exactly what to do
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and we won't let you do the test until we tell you you're 100% ready
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so that on test day all that stress is gone
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and you can walk in with total confidence
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that you will get the score that you need
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because of the level of feedback and help
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that we give to students we can't help everybody
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but I'll give you 10% off today as a reward for watching to the end of this video.
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If you go to the description you can click on
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that link see if there are any places available and you will get 10% off at that link.
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Now the VIP course does cost money because we only hire the best teachers
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that we can find and we give you a huge amount of one-on-one feedback
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and one-on-one support but maybe you just want some free courses.
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If you want that here's a complete writing course,
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here's a complete speaking course.
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And then later on, if you need more feedback,
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more one-on-one help, you can join the VIP course later.
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So click on one of those.
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If you just want free stuff,
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go to the VIP course and click on that if you want to work with us personally.
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