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Practice, practice, practice. In our experience candidates raise their grades 1-2 levels by taking mock exams.
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In the reading and listening parts answer every question. If you don't know the answer, guess! You are not penalised for incorrect answers.
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Some questions ask for answers with no more than three words. If you write more than 3 words it's wrong no matter how good your answer.
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Be very careful when you transfer your answers to the answer sheet. Small mistakes in capitalization or missing a "%" "p.m" "a.m" etc will cost you a point.
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In the writing tasks you are penalized if you write less than 145 words for task 1 and 243 words for task 2. The examiners will count the number of words if the essay looks short.
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In the speaking part don't get rattled by "unfriendly" examiners. To ensure impartiality examiners are instructed to keep their responses to "yes" "ok" etc, they will not praise and it's not really a conversation. Examiners are just focused on and listening to your replies.
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In the speaking part there are 4 sections. The questions in the first 3 sections aren't very difficult. Section 4 questions can be quite difficult to understand and even harder to reply to. Section 4 questions are to help the examiner decide if the canidate is going to score 7,8 or nine.
