Репост из: Diyorbek's IELTS
My favorite part of the IELTS exam is READING.
🎧 Listening is too easy. Try doing CPE Listening or TOEFL Listening. Compared with those, IELTS Listening is a walk in the park.
📝 Writing Task 1 is, for the most part, useless—especially map and process language. You almost never use that kind of vocabulary outside IELTS. While I can see the relevance of data reporting in research papers you read at university, Task 1 of IELTS Academic is generally unnecessarily hard. Task 2 is cliché, verbose writing presented as objectively making a case for something that’s usually easy to argue.
🗣 Speaking feels very robotic. Part 1 questions are overly childish, repetitive, and bizarre. Part 2 is even weirder. They usually ask you to speak for 2 minutes about a situation you might never have experienced. Part 3 seems okay, though.
📑 But IELTS Reading is indeed a good test. It assesses your language skills well and provides genuinely interesting passages. It’s the only truly enjoyable part of the exam.
🎧 Listening is too easy. Try doing CPE Listening or TOEFL Listening. Compared with those, IELTS Listening is a walk in the park.
📝 Writing Task 1 is, for the most part, useless—especially map and process language. You almost never use that kind of vocabulary outside IELTS. While I can see the relevance of data reporting in research papers you read at university, Task 1 of IELTS Academic is generally unnecessarily hard. Task 2 is cliché, verbose writing presented as objectively making a case for something that’s usually easy to argue.
🗣 Speaking feels very robotic. Part 1 questions are overly childish, repetitive, and bizarre. Part 2 is even weirder. They usually ask you to speak for 2 minutes about a situation you might never have experienced. Part 3 seems okay, though.
📑 But IELTS Reading is indeed a good test. It assesses your language skills well and provides genuinely interesting passages. It’s the only truly enjoyable part of the exam.