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Paraphrase – Understanding – 🎧
- April 25, 2019
- Category: IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
Paraphrasing refers to the restructuring on language / sentences in such a way that the meaning remains the same while the form changes. This is an important language skill. In listening and reading, several questions test your ability to understand paraphrase. In the listening section of many tests the words you hear might be completely
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Life is Hard – So is Reading Comprehension
- April 16, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ
Life and Reading Comprehension We get it. Life is hard. but then, the same could be said of reading comprhension. It does not matter which reading comprehension you are talking about. It could be PTE, IELTS, GRE, or even the French or the German exam that you are taking. There are more similarities between
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Spelling is hard – IELTS Listening
- April 13, 2019
- Category: IELTS, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
IELTS listening is not just about listening to the tape and noting down the answer. It is essential that the spelling is correct. It does not matter whether the spelling is as per British English or the American version. For eg, in the USA, its color, but in the UK, it is colour. Both answers
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Vocabulary Resource for IELTS | PTE
- April 11, 2019
- Category: IELTS, PTE, QUIZ
All of us want to be (not always openly) Sashi Tharoor. He is has become the god of all memes language. This post is dedicated to all those who want to dazzle the examiner using big words. This is for all those who want to ace the one descriptor of IELTS that is the most
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Writing Better Part 3
- April 3, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, PTE, QUIZ, TOEFL
This quiz is the third installment of our eight part series focusing on sentence variety. Hope you find it enlightening! For those of you who have missed the first two tests, the links are at the page below! Whom does writing not get down? In this 8 part series, we focus on the most
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Listening Test – Challenging
- March 31, 2019
- Category: IELTS, OET, PTE
Coaching is different from practice. In the Indian context, practice is mostly learning by roote. At First Academy, we do not believe in that. We believe that learning happens only by understanding. We do not undermine practice, but practice without understanding why you are doing something barely leads to anything worthwhile. That is why
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Set the Tone Right -IELTS, PTE and OET
- March 29, 2019
- Category: IELTS, OET, PTE
What is tone? Tone is the pitch of the speaker. It could be low or high depending on what the speaker intends to communicate. Tone is also a cue to the person’s attitude. The tone we take with a friend is certainly different from what we take with a teacher. Is tone important? Yes! It
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Whose line is it anyway?
- March 26, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ
There is a saying which says the difference between good and great is 5%. Being able to write good sentences is something that some effort and some grammar books can help you do. That will get you a good score. Quite often, in life, being good is well just that, being good enough. And quite
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Few vs. A Few
- March 25, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ
Small things often make a big difference when it comes to the score you are going to get. One such element, and an element which invariably makes an appearance in all English tests from GRE to PTE, to OET, to IELTS is the test takers ability to understand the difference between a few and few.
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Understanding Referents
- March 25, 2019
- Category: GRE, IELTS, OET, PTE, QUIZ
A referent is a word that refers to something. When we say refer, we are looking at it from the perspective of a doctor referring you to another doctor. A referent sends you to another word to complete its meaning. In IELTS and PTE, knowing how referents are used is an important skill that
