🎯 IELTS 6 November 2025 — Expert Cheat Sheet (EASY LEVEL)
🎧 LISTENING
types: Form Completion, Plan/Map Labeling, Matching Speakers, Note Completion.
Topics likely: Hotel booking, appliance repair, museum layout, environmental lecture.
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💡 How to Tackle Each Type
Form Completion:
Before the audio starts, read the form quickly and predict what kind of word fits each blank — a number, date, noun, or adjective. When you hear the answer, write as soon as it’s spoken; IELTS often paraphrases.
For example, the question says “Deposit: ___ pounds”, and the speaker says “You’ll need to pay fifty pounds upfront.”
👉 “Fifty” is your answer.
Trick: Don’t write articles like a or the. Stick to word limits.
Vocab focus: upfront, refundable, due, extension, maintenance.
Map/Plan Labeling:
Always find the compass (N, S, E, W) before the audio begins. Trace the route with your pencil as you listen. IELTS loves using direction phrases like “turn left,” “go straight past,” “opposite the entrance.”
If the audio says, “The café is next to the gift shop,” → “next to” = direct neighbor.
Trick: Most answers appear in the same sequence as you move around the map.
Matching Speakers:
Each person expresses a viewpoint or preference. Don’t wait for names—listen for clues like “I reckon,” “I’d prefer,” “Personally, I think…”
Underline key ideas, not opinions.
Example:
Q: Who prefers working in groups?
A: Speaker B says, “I learn more when I share ideas.”
Note Completion:
Predict grammar and topic before listening. For academic talks, expect nouns like energy source, pollution, innovation.
Trick: Answers usually paraphrase keywords from the question.
If the question says “main cause of pollution,” the audio might say “The biggest contributor to pollution is…”
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📘 ACADEMIC READING
question types: True/False/Not Given, Matching Headings, Short Answer, Multiple Choice.
Likely topics: Heritage discovery, sustainable architecture, social media and creativity.
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💡 Tactics for Each Type
True/False/Not Given:
Look for keywords, not synonyms. IELTS rephrases everything.
T = same meaning, F = opposite, NG = not mentioned.
If the statement says, “The ruins were discovered in 1920,” and the passage says, “Unearthed in 1930,” → that’s FALSE.
Trick: Answers follow order — don’t waste time scanning the whole passage randomly.
Matching Headings:
Read the first and last lines of each paragraph. The first line often gives the topic; the last shows the result.
Eliminate headings that are too narrow or too broad.
Mini tip: If two headings look similar, the correct one usually covers why something happened, not just what happened.
Short Answer Questions:
Always check word limits (e.g., NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS). Use exact phrases from the text — no need to paraphrase.
If the question is “Where was the experiment carried out?” and the text says “in a laboratory in Canada,” → write “laboratory” (not “lab” or “in Canada”).
Multiple Choice (Passage 3):
Focus on synonyms around the keywords. IELTS hides answers in implied meaning, not direct phrases.
Read all options first, cross out the obvious wrong ones, then pick between the final two by matching tone or logic.
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🟢 GENERAL TRAINING READING
sections: Notices, Work manuals, Opinion articles.
Common topics: transport updates, safety procedures, healthy lifestyle.
Tips:
In notices, dates and numbers are often the answers. Scan, don’t read everything.
In manuals, modals are key. “Must” = obligation, “should” = advice, “can’t” = prohibition.
In Section 3 (long text), underline contrast connectors like however, on the other hand, whereas — answers often hide near these.
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✍️ WRITING
Academic Task 1: Bar chart or process diagram.
GT Task 1: Semi-formal or informal letter (invitation or request).
Task 2: High chance of Advantages–Disadvantages or Positive/Negative development.
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💡 How to Tackle Each Writing Task
Academic Task 1 (Bar/Process):
Spend 3 mins identifying trends: highest, lowest, overall pattern.
Begin your overview with: “Overall, it is clear that…” or “In general, the data indicate that…”
Use verbs like rose, declined, remained steady, peaked, fluctuated.
Avoid copying words from the question; rephrase shows as illustrates or compares.
Example: “The chart compares recycling rates across five countries over a decade.”
GT Task 1 (Letter):
Identify tone (formal, semi, informal).
Start friendly: “Hope you’re doing well.”
Purpose line: “I’m writing to ask/invite/request…”
Add 2 clear details and end naturally: “Looking forward to hearing from you soon.”
Common vocab: appreciate, grateful, delighted, inconvenience, arrangements.
Task 2 Essay:
For Advantages–Disadvantages, follow this 4-step model:
Intro → Paraphrase question + state your view
Body 1 → Advantages
Body 2 → Disadvantages
Conclusion → Restate your opinion.
For positive–negative, follow this 4-step model:
Intro → Paraphrase question + state your 1 sided view
Body 1 → positives OR negatives 1 side only
Body 2 → positives OR negatives same side as body 1
Conclusion → Restate your opinion.
Example Question:
“Some people think technology helps people connect, while others believe it isolates them.”
Tip: Start with “While it’s true that digital tools make communication faster, they also reduce face-to-face interaction.”
High-score vocab: connectivity, interpersonal bonds, virtual interaction, detrimental, outweigh, mitigate, foster.
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🗣️ SPEAKING
Predicted Part 1 Topics: Home, hobbies, daily habits, mobile phones, food.
Strategy: Don’t give one-line answers. Use reason + example pattern.
Example:
Q: “Do you use your phone often?”
A: “Oh, absolutely! I use it all day for chatting with friends and even managing my work schedule—it’s like my mini-assistant.”
Part 2 Likely Cue Cards:
Describe a gadget you use often
Describe a journey you enjoyed
Describe a festival in your city
Describe a time you helped someone
Describe a person you admire
Cue Card Formula:
Intro → “I’d love to talk about…”
Body → Who/What/When/Why
Feelings → “It made me feel…”
End → “That’s why I still remember it.”
Use vivid, emotional words (thrilled, relieved, proud, nostalgic).
Part 3 Questions:
How has technology changed the way people socialize?
Should schools include environmental education?
What causes work stress among young people?
Tip: Give 2-line opinion + 1 reason + 1 mini example.
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⚡ LAST-DAY PRACTICE PLAN
Morning:
Listen to 1 Map task + 1 Note completion from Cambridge 17/18.
Afternoon:
Read one AC passage (T/F/NG) and one GT passage (manual/instructions).
Evening:
Write 1 bar chart (AC) or 1 letter (GT) + 1 essay (Advantages–Disadvantages).
Night:
Record yourself answering 2 cue cards and review fluency & fillers (“umm,” “you know”).
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💬 Quick Vocabulary Pack
For Writing & Speaking:
Instead of good: beneficial, advantageous, favorable.
Instead of bad: harmful, detrimental, undesirable.
Instead of important: crucial, pivotal, of great significance.
Instead of say: mention, state, remark, express.
Instead of show: illustrate, depict, demonstrate.
