如何短期內提高IELTS成績?

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密集複習半年，r8.5/l8.5/s7.5/w7.0 total 8.0

聽力和口語是自己從小積累比較多，所以沒有什麼捷徑可以提供

（從小被反鎖到家裡聽磁帶背新概念II，相信我，那時候我比你更想要捷徑）

閱讀，經驗就是，逮著CAM III——CAM VI，按照題型一種一種的過。List Of Heading, Summary ,T/F/NG等等等等，不在於做的快做得對，關鍵是總結一類型題目的通用思路，熟悉常見的陷阱。

雅思reading，考的就是在全文範圍和一些局部範圍，對作者意圖的理解。其實文章脈絡都不太複雜，但是篇幅太要命。大多數人都把注意力放在了「媽呀趕緊看完看不完就死定了」上，而忽略了「這群出題的英國流氓們是不是準備在語言文字上班門弄斧一下？」

舉個很簡單的例子，漢語一句話「我吃麵包而不是漢堡」，如果變成了「我要吃麵包，而不是麥當勞或者肯德基賣的那種有生菜芝士肉餅配著咖啡或者可樂吃的那種漢堡」，在你急著看完的情況下，漢堡給你留下的印象是不是比麵包還深呢？這還是母語，英語更甚。

所以要看完，又要準確，這就需要閱讀的技巧。

這種技巧是可以鍛煉的。我們小時候做語文閱讀，裡面各種「欲揚先抑」「反語」什麼的伎倆，都能被我們識破，和我博大精深的中華文字比起來，老外的招數簡直是逗樂的。這是因為在閱讀中文的時候，我們知道應該注意什麼，小心什麼。

將這一點應用在烤鴨上，必然事半功倍。比如在你看文章的時候，發現作者如同耍流氓一般，洋洋洒洒針對A東西，解釋了30個詞，但是一個轉折，落在了B東西上，當時心裡就跟明鏡一樣，「這群蠻夷，欺我不知天朝考試精髓不成？」碾壓完這道題之後，進行舉一反三的思考，總結以後看文章的時候是不是應該重點注意一些but，however,rather than？

這樣下次看文章的時候，關鍵詞在你眼中就如同加了黑體一樣。

其他題型同理，重點是多思考，多總結，然後回到實踐裡面多次檢驗修正。CAM iii到vi，閱讀部分我先全做，後按照題型做，過了至少十遍。對的也琢磨，錯的也琢磨，覺得琢磨的差不多了拿著CAM 78 做模考，平均7.5+。牛逼哄哄上考場，考完reading之後的感覺，就是「我擦這下牛逼大了，閱讀至少8.0」 因為自己的每個答案都是自己從若干關鍵詞中，按照千錘百鍊的思維邏輯推理出來的，倍兒有信心。

然後是寫作。

怎麼說呢，雅思的writing，我覺得考的是你快速的按照英語思維組織和表達的能力。

PART ONE的圖表，不要主管臆想過度推理，描述數據手段盡量不重複，敘述要有一定的邏輯性。

PART TWO的議論文，要準確審題，看明白要你議論的是啥，在什麼範圍內議論，要熟練使用「英式辯證」，還要觀點明確有論據支撐。

先不說具體的東西，且說一個小時，要考慮以上亂七八糟的，連審題帶構思帶寫完，反正對我來說，時間緊巴巴剛剛好，不曉得會不會有人寫不完。和上面的幾條比起來，速度，或者說寫作的效率，是第一要務。

考場下面，一定要針對各種類型的part one， 表格，柱狀圖，折線圖，餅狀圖什麼的，每種練上3,4篇，並且盡量同種類型的幾篇文章，不要使用太多相同的片語句型。這樣讓自己的語言多樣化。同樣要總結和思考，總結出一種考題對應的固定思路。

part one， 先要邏輯清晰實現政治正確，然後通過多樣化的語言，適當的總結延伸爭取加分。

part two這糾結的玩意，審題最重要。比如人家問你"to what extent do you agree"， 你洋洋洒洒寫了一大堆solution和advice， 文筆再漂亮P用沒有。

審了題之後，決定你要使用的論述方法。「一邊倒」，就是咬緊一方論點不放，從頭到尾，最後兼顧一下反方觀點，總結。

「鐘擺」，就是你本來同意A，那麼你先說A好，然後說B好，然後說A壞，然後說B壞，然後總結，還是A好。

這玩意中國人覺得純粹蛋疼，但是英國人看的津津有味，說你邏輯清晰。擦

所以在考場下面多練習，重點是適應這種思維方法，組織論據的時候能夠快速的形成大致框架即可。

差不多就這麼多，快下班了~歡迎留言。

內什麼，加了個油。

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感謝@浩仁，@金小金的支持~本來是針對reading,writing這兩個自己努力最多的專題分享一些心得，晚上回家構思了一下，做一些補充

reading方面，昨天說了關鍵詞，其實還有個挺重要的技巧，就是看題目去文章裡面找答案。

剛開始接觸reading練習的時候，自己功力不夠，為了保證規定時間做得完，自己都是拿到題目之後，先大概看一下文章說的是什麼東西，然後就比照著題目，去文章裡面一個個定位找答案。雅思的題目設置是大概按照文章脈絡走的，所以題做完了，差不多文章也看完了。

後面慢慢的熟練了，也就是看文章的時候會自動的注意什麼是重點考點，比如轉折，數字，人名地名的大寫，比較，因果之類的，也就牛逼哄哄的「跟看報紙一樣」看完文章，然後題目一蹴而就，偶爾迴文章裡面找答案或者驗證答案就好了。

這是功力問題，所以想要速成，建議乖乖的先看題目，然後帶著問題看文章。有的時候確實題做完了，還沒鬧明白文章到底要幹啥，但是答案對了，愛咋咋地。

writing方面，補充一點就是「千萬不要奢望能檢查」

不知道你們有沒有這個習慣，就是各種期末考試什麼的，寫英語作文的時候，慢悠悠的打草稿，然後寫完之後檢查一遍拼寫，語法，句型什麼的。

雅思作文，這樣就是找死！！

算算吧，PART ONE 150， PART TWO 250， 一共400詞，一個小時之內寫完，刨去審題構思10-15分鐘，平均一分鐘8-10個詞。 這還要包括斟酌用詞，考慮語法什麼的喲~

尤其是對於我這樣的，一不小心就奔著500詞去的，能寫完就不賴了，還想檢查，簡直痴人說夢。

所以，練習的時候要養成的習慣是，一遍成型。寫出來的東西就要保證語法正確，拼寫正確，句型高級，用詞適當華麗，書寫湊合能看。

好吧，這兩個先說這麼多吧~

接下來說speaking吧，因為這個的技巧性還是挺強的。

ielts和toefl相比，我感覺最大的區別，也是比較高貴冷艷的一點，就是真人對話，而不是對著電腦假惺惺。 ESOL考口語的意思，就是看「這群人到底會不會聊天」。

所以，拿出狐朋狗友侃大山的勁頭，盡情的扯吧……

比如說，人家問你「where is your hometown？」你難道不應該跟他這麼說么？

「我來自北京，中國的首都，一個歷史悠久的城市，哎你知道么，就是有長城和故宮的地方丫~北京風景名勝眾多，人民熱情好客，城市設施完善，是一個現代化和古典元素完美融合了的城市 BALABALA」，然後小帥哥看看錶，心想我擦嘞再說下去超時了呀，趕緊叫停，下一個問題。

那你一句話「I"m from Beijing」, 然後就跟外國小帥哥「相對望，無語凝噎」算是什麼反應呀~

玩笑打住，說正經的，考官的每一個問題，都是指向一些回答要點的，比如說看你會不會形容風景，會不會描述人物，會不會敘述故事等等。不在於用多麼高大上的辭彙句型，關鍵就是看你有沒有的說。

形容景點你可以不會說「magnificent landscape rich in fauna and flora」,但是你總得會扯兩句除了beautiful之外的形容吧

形容工作你可以不會說「a crystal ceiling on the top」 但是你總得會扯嘮幾句什麼labor,ambition之類的東西吧

等等等等。

多看一些素材，多備一些語料，然後靈活的應用出來。

語音語調方面，不要緊張發音不夠native， 沒人規定發不出倫敦腔就5.5-……你想印度人考雅思也很NB的呀~~所以自信是關鍵，信心滿滿的跟考官顯擺，你的聊天能力多麼強，你的語料多麼豐富就行啦

還有就是，如果聽不懂他說啥，不要擔心，pardon吧，因為英國人的邏輯是，你聽不懂我說什麼，說明你聽力有問題，但是現在考的是口語，我才不管你聽力呢。

好吧~這麼多吧，聽力方面我實在是沒什麼值得分享的……反正當時去新東方培訓，聽力課上他們再怎麼講技巧取勝，我橫豎都是聽力材料聽的真真切切……完全沒在意他講什麼~捂臉

最後考試的時候，也是聽一道題抬頭看看監考的小帥哥，輕鬆加愉快~

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關於matching題，確實是閱讀裡面相當噁心的部分，當時XDF的老師親切的稱之為「斷（段）子絕孫」題。

鄧璐的提問昨晚就看到了，然後花了一晚上加上一早上時間回憶當時烤鴨的經驗，總結出來這麼幾點：

能力提高的方面：關於scanning階段的關鍵信息標記。

其實題型再奇怪，考法再刁鑽，我們只要把握一點，那就是「考點」。所謂的考點，不是這道題考了什麼，而是文章里蘊含了什麼可以出題做文章的要素。

乾巴巴說的玄乎，下面舉個栗子。

現在有一篇文章，架設是個科技文。

第一段說，現在有這麼個問題。這問題有多嚴重，多致命，導致了什麼什麼後果。

第二、三四段開始說，前人的努力（in vain, of course）。列出了一大堆人名，NB,TS,MK,BLABLA,一大堆組織機構名，UCLA,WTO,CERN,BLABLA

第五段說，曾經最接近成功的哥們。幹了什麼，怎麼乾的，什麼技術，什麼成果。說的天花亂墜金碧輝煌。

第六段，正主兒蹦出來，說上面那兄弟什麼缺陷。

第七段，講正主兒的光輝事迹，天花亂墜金碧輝煌MAX

第八段，結論，正主兒NB！！！

在看上面這種文章的時候，理清文章的脈絡是必須的，也就是總結出來上面的這種脈絡。這樣大概就能知道每段是說什麼的。但是，這個階段不用整個文章都看一遍！！

第一段，找到一些什麼problem,crisis,failure，lack之類的辭彙，大概就知道這是說問題的。

第二三四段，你瞄一眼發現，無轉折無褒貶，並列一堆人名地名組織名科學術語，大概就知道這一坨都是講前人無謂的努力。不用管都是啥，標記專用名詞，走你。

第五段，你發現了一些忽略整體強調個體的、以及一些比較級最高級辭彙和片語，比如什麼among XXX，XXX……best/most/……就知道這有可能是正主兒出現了。究竟是不是正主兒，往後看。

第六段，一個驚天轉折（however,although……）天降一人說上面的疑似正主兒有缺陷。當然也有可能是用極為陰險的轉折句，9句讚揚加一句批評，但是批評是致命的（比如以上毫無意義，比如你的出發點錯了，比如你審題審錯了之類的）。這裡，標記轉折辭彙，走你。

第七段，發現又是一堆專用名詞和縮寫，但是全段都是說一個人的，並且春秋筆法沒有貶義。得了，這是為正主兒唱讚歌呢，繼續標記專用名詞，走你。

第八段，到了驗證以上猜想的時候了，要麼就是發現了明顯的感情色彩，要麼就是遺憾的表示瘸子裡面挑將軍，要麼就是賤賤的說都不滿意，必須依靠後人基於正主兒成果的長期奮鬥（真心陰險），得了，以上正主兒和配角的分配無誤。標記了感情色彩，比較關係，最高級什麼的辭彙，結束scanning。

竊以為，這幫ESOL的老外考來考去也就是那幾招，虛晃一槍，欲揚先抑，欲抑先揚，偷換近義詞，偷換高級辭彙……其目標無非就是，把有可能暴露文章脈絡和段落大意的關鍵辭彙隱藏起來。

所以，射人先射馬，他藏起來我就找唄，也不用X光掃描全身了，大眼一瞟，直接找他西裝內袋，錢包夾層，內褲暗袋（……）找到這貨的身份證，就知道是誰了。至於為什麼知道找這些地方，經驗唄。

因此，在長期的練習過程中，我等烤鴨匠，必須學會的，也是我上文強調的，就是對關鍵信息的敏感。找到並標記出若干詞，比通讀省時間，且效率高。

OK，標記完了，現在看斷子絕孫的題干，

人名地名組織名？迴文定位。

感情色彩辭彙？迴文定位。

近反義詞，轉折？迴文定位。

定位完成之後，其實答案在自己心裡已經差不多了。下面就是針對定位之後的段落，稍微仔細一點看看，有沒有自己沒有發現的陷阱，比如轉折少看了一個，比如有個代詞沒搞明白是指誰

關鍵信息標記，主要要注意的，是以下幾點（啰嗦見諒）：

專用名詞、感情色彩、轉折並列關係、數字金錢、代詞，等等

考試技巧的方面：讀懂題干中的hint

這部分，網上流傳的技巧比較多，比如最後做matching多收集信息，比如通過題干進行兩個選項的先後順序判斷，比如根據題干判斷段落在文章中的大概位置，等等，不再贅述，只是強調一點，對於審題、判斷的這種小技巧大可借鑒，但是對於別人的做題節奏和順序，謹慎參考。

我做題的習慣是，首先LOH（如果有），然後看文章同時標記，然後按照順序做題。

當年模考的時候，嘗試著換了個做題順序，一下就沒有節奏了呀~當時就覺得，腦子真TM亂，這麼做下去漏一道題我都不知道呢！然後果斷回到自己的方法。

沒有壞方法，只有不適應方法的人。

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雅思考官作文批改，僅供參考：

雅思作文題目：The rate of youth crime is rising in many
countries. What are the causes of this trend? Suggest some possible solutions
to it.

學生習作：

The rate of youth crime is on a rising trend in
many countries which causes a heated debate on the reasons and solutions of
this worrying phenomenon. I would analyze the causes and solutions in the
following paragraphs.Firstly, the insufficient parenting is responsible for the
juvenile delinquency. Children from the family lacking cares tend to be more
violent and rude than others from the family full of love. Then, the schooling
which oriented student』s scores may overlook the education of being a legal-abiding
citizen. What』s more, the press should be blamed for the increasing trend of
youth crime because the pieces of coverage contains large amount of violent and
sexual stuff. Some movies and novels even glory the violence. Young people have
no immune to tell the right from the wrong and easy to imitate others to break
the law.Facing with this more and more dangerous trend of youth crime, we have
to solve the root causes of this phenomenon. To start with, parents should
spend more time and energy on the education of the youth. The family is the
most important element in the formation of young people』s personality.
Secondly, schools are expected to change the model of score-oriented education
to ones foster generalists who are excellent in all aspects. Last but not
least, the government should supervise the press and limit young people』s
access to porn and violence.The development of young people decides the further
of our society. We should pay more attention to the youth crime and solve this
problem from the root. Only in this way can our society booms in the future.

Nicola考官的評語（注意看評分理由及寫作建議）：

This essay is excellent. Your student should be
very proud of themselves. There are many strengths here and I shall address
those first.

The written papers are assessed on four
different points:

Task Achievement.

This is how well the student has answered the
question. It is the easiest way for students to get points, and this essay
answers the question excellently. It makes three great points, offers clear
solutions and has a nice well thought out conclusion. I was very pleased with
this part of the essay. And if I were the examiner I would put this in the
region of a 6 with an eye towards the 7.

Secondly, Coherence and Cohesion.

This looks at how well the essay flows and how
it is linked together and this again was done excellently. There was no
repetition, while at the same time it had a natural flow. I was impressed with
this and would score it at least a 6 and would seriously be considering a 7 here.

Lexical Resource.

This looks at the vocabulary used. Again this
was incredibly impressive. The student used vocabulary that showed a high level
of education. This perhaps was the most impressive part of the essay.
Vocabulary such as juvenile delinquency, score-orientated and root causes will
gain the examiner"s respect. A few times the student made mistakes with their
lexis. Legal-abiding should be law-abiding. I"m thinking perhaps the student
was confused between law-abiding and legally binding. However this even further
goes to show the impressive extent of the student"s vocabulary, and trying to
do something difficult and making mistakes is far far better than to keep it
simple and all correct.

Some mistakes here (but please do not be
disheartened because the vocabulary really was brilliant)

Glory the violence

should be

glorify the violence.

Glory is a noun

Glorify is the verb.

Glorious is the adjective

Young children have no immune

Should be

Young children have no immunity

Immune is an adjective

Immunity is the noun

So it could also have correctly said: young
children are not immune..

This is in the region of a 7 due to its highly
sophisticated vocabulary, however a harsh examiner could potentially drop the
grade to 6 due to these mistakes.

Grammatical range and accuracy.

Now I do not in any way wish for this student to
be disheartened because I mean it when I say I was highly impressed with this
work and that it was of a very high standard. However, this essay contained no
complex grammar. The tenses it did use were correct but your examiner wants to
see examples of higher level grammatical structures.

To be specific, we want to see perfect tenses,
passive tenses and relative clauses. I understand that it"s not easy to add in
this grammar when the topic naturally lends itself to simple grammatical
structures but it is important for the student to try. My own suggestions would
be to try something like instead of

"insufficient parenting is responsible for the
juvenile delinquency"

to put,

"insufficient parenting has been blamed for
juvenile delinquency."

Here you"d have the present perfect and the
passive in one sentence. This would make any examiner extremely happy.

Instead of

"The family is the most important element in the
formation of young people』s personality."

The student could have written:

"Family has always been the most important
element in the formation of young people"s personality."

I think perhaps this student will feel a little
frustrated at this suggestion because their English is of such a high standard
that they are answering the question quite naturally and do not want to stop to
artificially add complex grammar; especially when it is normal to answer
without it, even to a native speaker. But examiners want to see that difficult
grammar, they really do!

The second issue with the grammar is overuse of
"the". There are many times in which there was no need for it, for example:

Firstly, the insufficient parenting is
responsible for the juvenile delinquency.

The student needs to be careful of this,
although it does show an understanding of the language and it is far better, in
the eyes of the examiner, to use it when it should not be used, than to not use
it when it should.

The score for this is tricky and your examiner
may even look in the region of a 5. Not because it was terrible, but because
there were simply no examples of anything complex.

A level 6 is a student who tries to use complex
grammar but who makes some mistakes with it. A level 5 is a student who uses
simple grammar with a fair amount of accuracy. What would make the examiner
choose the 6 however, is that at no point is it difficult to understand.
However if you have a harsh examiner, you may find them grading you a 5.

The public descriptors of a 5 are:

Uses only a range of structures.

Attempts complex sentences but these tend to
less accurate than simple sentences.

The public descriptors of 6 are:

Uses a variety of complex structures.

Produces frequent error-free sentences.

Has good control of grammar and punctuation but
may make a few errors.

Here you can see how an examiner may grade as
low as a 5.

There were times during the grading of this
essay that I even started looking as high as an 8 in certain aspects. This is
how impressed I was at points of this essay.

Overall this text is looking in the region of a
6.

With more complex grammar and more accurate use
of its sophisticated vocabulary, it could be raised easily to 7. This is an
excellent student, really excellent.

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