Listening learners, they explain how the achieved band 78 Andi, even nine.

Now here's your host Ryan.

Hello and welcome toe Isles cast today I'm speaking with Baron and Isles candidates from gel Under, which is in Punjab India.

Baron is here today and he's going to tell us how he scored an overall band of eight with the very impressive perfect band nine and listening a band eight in Reading and Ban seven in writing and banned seven in speaking.

Hi Varun.

Welcome to islands caste higher and Oh, you I'm good.

Thank you.

Very nice.

So you mentioned that you had listened to podcasts before on dhe.

Did any of the podcasts share with you tips that perhaps you you hadn't known before?

That you put into practice for your own examination?

He s the one of you.

Sure you interviewed with it?

Yes, And that was very helpful because earlier I was able to finish my, uh, reading in about 50 minutes.

Okay.

But after because I was reading all the questions.

And then I was going toe the text and finding the answers.

But after eating that, what because I read one question and then went back to the test and then answer looked for them said And then going back to another question that reduce my 10 minutes signed a visible to finish my testing Only 40 minutes.

Wow.

So just that strategy alone that that accelerated your speed by 10 minutes.

Wow, that's incredible.

Varun and I were going to go through the examination.

The sections one by one and barren is going to share some of his advice and a bit of the experience that he had in the example.

So let's start with with your greatest mark on the exam The listening You got a perfect band night.

So barren.

Won't you tell us a little bit about how you approached preparing for the listening?

First of all, I listen tow these Discovery Channel.

I used to say lots off documentaries on Discovery Channel and they have been a lot in developing my listening skills.

And in addition to that, I listened to you poor cars and most of the people they were very good in speaking English.

So I was able to, uh, accommodate myself and acclimatize myself.

Toe various accents off the English by your podcasts.

And in addition, I had a report card subscribe through this Apple's iTunes.

Okay.

And what podcast was that?

There was All is English.

Hey, all ears English.

Okay, it's my two girls named Lindsey and Gabby.

Okay, It's the day GIs daily deleting Zo are anything they like to just a conversation between two people and that helped me a lot.

Okay, so Okay, so maybe that helped Thio train.

You're here for listening for conversation Style of English.

In addition to that, I bond is cameras, just people's the nine books which have official examination People's by Cambridge.

And I listened to the cities which were provided with them and also the questions along with that.

So I practiced the questions and I listened to you to the conversations on the port pod counts, and that would be OK.

So you were doing a lot of practice tests before you went to the exam?

Yes, I sold all the these nine books on each book is having four distinct right, four deaths.

So it was around 32 tests on this and finish in tow.

Delete.

This thing's great.

So you ran through all 32 tests is very yes.

Yes, Sharon, As you as you were going through the tests, did you find that your mark was improving?

Little by little, Uh, it was a good from initial, because when it's all the past test, I was able to score 36 hours.

40.

Okay, great.

So after that, it was yesterday.

Improved.

Sometimes when I was able to get 40 or 40 other times, it was just 39.

30.

So that regulates it.

Improved.

Okay, Terrific.

So that it sounds as though that the practice test that you were doing were a very good reflection of what you actually scored in the exam.

Yes.

Okay.

Let's talk about your experience in the exam itself.

He and experience was nice.

All the people were very friendly and media sit comfortably, and they gave us our candidate number and did made us check the had phones try so that there's no problem while listening the actual lives listening test.

And, uh, I had a strict prostrated before listening because I knew that there is an announcement in the beginning, and it's around one minute, 50 condone something like that.

So I just wrote it on me notebook that there's every gap which is in between this this listening to sections.

So initially there is a gap for on during which they announced that they're going.

This is an island test.

You're going to listen this and this and during their But I was just a reading like a section for inspection trees questions because they are very tough and the speed is going to increase as we go toward the last section.

Okay, so I don't question section four and section trees question during that period only.

And when er on also said that, you know, you can turn to section one, then it immediately turn to section one and 200.

The questions of Section one.

Interesting.

So Okay, that's I've never heard anyone suggest that before, but that that makes a lot of sense.

I mean, typically, section when the first couple of questions are really straightforward, it very easy.

So you used that little gap of time just to jump ahead to kind of preview what the subject would be and what sort of questions you would face in three and four.

Yes.

Okay.

As you were going through where you also preview previewing the questions in the review time that you're given.

No, I was not driving the questions.

I was going Air dander.

Didn't the questions off the next section?

Yes.

So that there is no use of revenge.

Innocent Because we have heard already everything.

And there is no time.

There is no use of wasting their time.

I use that time to read the question of the next section, right?

That's right.

That's what I meant.

You're So you're previewing for the next section in that In that Yes.

Okay, one end up.

Actually, there was a problem.

I just missed one question.

It was like because about air balloons.

So it was individuated best to go into the in that air balloon.

So I just missed that part because I was reading the next.

Because there is a gap between, uh, one section.

Also, give the gap off about some minutes during which you can read the first day, tell 1st 5 questions, one section, the next fight.

It's like that.

So there is a gap between uh, five questions off the, uh, 1st 1st question in the last five questions off same section.

So I used that also the lead, because in the third and fourth section Oh, OK, yes, I know what you mean.

That there is that little gap in the middle of the listing itself.

So even that little gap you went ahead to listing three and four.

Yes, well, so during that time, I just missed one question, but I was able to just predict it.

I think I predicted it right, because the game's been off The best season to go in an air balloon would be a spring season.

Because I heard that he was saying that winter season, there's lots off.

Also, you won't be able to go in summer.

It's too hard.

And so he made two seasons.

He was making that.

They're not good.

I see.

Well, I I couldn't hurt which season is good, but I predicted that it might be a spring season, so I put it there, and I think that might have run, right.

Well, yeah, it sounds like it.

So you just You just kind of deduced from what you knew and the middle.

Yes.

Okay.

Wow.

Great advice, Varun.

Is there anything else you want to share about?

The listening, huh?

Nothing.

It's just we have to practice because even if we listen to these orcas, we must practice questions in so that we get started this hour.

Sold?

Yes.

So I just made I have a return on my notebook.

I'll send you the exact gaps which are present.

We need section, so I'll send them.

I feel them to you so that you can share with Excellent.

Great, Thank you.

Wonderful advice.

Now let's move on to the reading section.

And again you scored band eight.

Uh, can you walk us through the step that you you took to prepare for that?

For that, I just used to solve these Cambridge peoples.

And in addition to that, I had a friend who during some coaching institute, So I took some other test people's from him, which I used to Seoul.

So during my practice off these tests, I used to score almost 90%.

I was able to score a bank night, so I was even.

I was expecting nine.

Also in this one, I came home and told my parents, I'll be getting nine in at least reading because I was sure cure about this.

I was not sure about listening because I missed that one.

And I predicted one question and the exact opposite night when I got nine in listening and eat in reading, right?

Okay, well, both very, very, very good marks as well, So you can't be too unhappy about that.

But did you do any sort of a strict vocabulary preparation or, you know, exercises to try improved in a book?

I direct the news People's only in his paper on me mobile phone itself.

So I usedto a copy of the whole sentence in which that book ever needed a new liver.

I copy that and placed it in my notes, and then I used to this made the mobile pronounce all those sentences.

So I was able to practice my listening.

I was able to know how they were being lost, and I was also able to learn all the meanings of those works.

And I think also that when you see it used in context, this also indirectly helped your writing because then you can see exactly how this word is, it would be used correctly.

Yes, That mean writing is okay.

Great.

So see, it sounds like you were doing a lot of academic reading your reading newspapers regularly doing the Praxis examinations.

Now, where did you do any any focus on language for different kinds of English.

So, for example, medical English or maybe English related to the environment or related thio education or no, actually, I'm a science student.

Only I had a good hold on the science book.

Edwards and I usedto read this business, right?

Health, health segments and all the current affairs.

I see.

Now let's talk about the examination itself.

Why don't you share a bit of a about the experience with us during the examination?

Actually, after the listing, they gave us this writing paper.

Sorry, reading people.

So I stay distracted doing a one woman so more wanting to know this during practice, I used to get some questions, but you're not in sequence.

But in this in this actually does all the questions were in because only So I was reading the question, going back to the text.

I was getting it in the first paragraph itself and then going to next question.

That was in next line on next paragraph.

So it was a pretty easy reading part.

I didn't find any difficulty in reading.

Do you remember the topics that your readings were on?

Yes.

One was on preparing your CB on the last one.

Wasn't the giant barred frog giant bird frog Bart be a double R eady general artwork?

Okay, so it was something to do.

It was the third, the most difficult one.

The third section, and, uh, one more was dead.

I can't remember that one.

And did you remember the question types that you saw?

Yeah.

People like in the last segment River.

This true vault's not given and the multiple choices And they were fill in the blanks and actually didn't got any headings or not.

I prepared a lot for those ones also.

Okay, toe.

But there were no headings in my reading, April.

Anything else that you'd like to share but reading hearing before we move on to reading?

Uh, just I think most of the questioning on 90% of question are in sequence, so we must keep on doing them.

Were not able to find any question.

We shouldn't waste time on that.

Just finished the question.

Which way of finding the answers to you and just go back at last if you have time to see the difficult ones?

Because I think our 25 question Dr Fortier.

Very easy.

We confine very easy answer just in front of us.

And then I think they're a little difficult.

And five are kind of pretty that I have deduced from the various examination People have soared.

So those five, we can leave our last we can shouldn't waste much time on them.

Just finished the easy part, then the difficult and the tricky We can do it last.