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Listening: Four Essential Exam Skills



There are four important techniques that you will need to use throughout the listening exam.


Specifically, we will look at:


  1. 🎯 Predicting answers

  2. 🔍 Predicting and understanding synonyms and paraphrases.

  3. ⚖️ Avoiding being tricked by 'distractors'

  4. 📝 Understanding fast, connected, and reduced speech

  5. 💬 How improving your vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation will improve your listening score


1. 🎯 How to Predict Answers


Before listening, you have 20 - 35 seconds to read the questions and predict some of the answers. Making predictions will help prepare your ear