IELTS
And Critical Thinking Skills
You
want to go to Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand or other foreign country
of your choice for work or study purpose. You decide to make your English
strong. One fine day you see an advertisement in the newspaper that claims to
help you memorize the whole of the Oxford Dictionary in one month and you join
the program. Imagine! What will happen after that? Would you be able to speak
good English or write good essays? You might commit a number of grammatical
mistakes. Then you join another program in grammar and learn a lot of grammar
rules. Now you can use good vocab and make grammatically correct sentences. Does
it ensure that you can write and speak to obtain a high band score in IELTS?
Probably
one component is missing here. Critical thinking. We offer
the best IELTS training center in
Dwarka and help
IELTS candidates develop critical thinking skills in all areas of IELTS. Critical
thinking is the ability of a person to think – rationally and clearly. This
involves understanding the logical connection between ideas and reason. A
critical thinker becomes an active learner and is not just a passive recipient
of information. Critical thinkers can identify, analyse and solve problems
systematically.
Critical thinking and IELTS
“Critical
Thinking and IELTS exam related to each other? This question creates confusion
initially. One must understand firmly that none can score a high band score
without demonstrating critical thinking skills in IELTS examination. Vocabulary,
grammar, etc. represent knowledge but critical thinking is the application of knowledge.
In
writing, you must build up lots of ideas using a mind map, organize them, and
then justify them. These are key applications of critical thinking in IELTS.
One must think thoroughly about the topic of the essay question and accordingly
provide a logical response to it.
In
the speaking test too, a candidate should be able to demonstrate thinking
skills. Though Part One and Part Two of IELTS speaking requires a candidate to survive
by using common everyday conversations yet Part Three requires one to respond
thoughtfully to the topic.
In
the Listening test, a candidate must demonstrate sharpness of the mind. If you
want to score a high band score in IELTS listening, you need to need to excel
at fluent listening and find contextual meaning of various words used in the
audio. You should be able to apply your knowledge to create contextual understanding
of the situation. For instance, the word book
has multiple meanings. One should be able to figure out the exact meaning by
understanding the context. In the context of a airport, it can be used as a
verb meaning to book the flight tickets while in the context of a library, it
may be used as a noun for a book to read.
In
reading, critical thinking skills help in eliminating the wrong answers in True
/ False / Not given. So please remember that thinking critically is a key part
of scoring high in the IELTS exam.
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