5 Best Books for IELTS Preparation

None of the IELTS books available anywhere in the world are designed to improve your English in general. They are written assuming that you have a decent knowledge of the English language. If your English is really poor then studying an IELTS book will not help you improve your IELTS score.
At BrightLink we believe that it is more effective to study a book designed especially for the IELTS given that you have an intermediate level of English – otherwise one needs to get hold of an English language book. Here are the top 5 books that our instructors recommend. Try to study them if you want to achieve a really good IELTS band.






Top Tips for IELTS

This book gives you essential tips for each section of the IELTS exam. Written by experienced Cambridge IELTS examiners it includes detailed examples and explanations of what each tip means. Writing samples are included to assess your own performance-monitoring along with a video of an authentic Speaking test.








Common Mistakes at IELTS … and how to avoid them
This book highlights all of the real mistakes that IELTS students make, rectifies them and shows how to avoid them. Based on analysis of thousands of real exam papers, each component targets a key problem area and then clearly explains students to use the language accurately.








Complete IELTS

This book covers each IELTS section in detail, providing tips, strategies and practice to ensure that students are fully prepared. It includes examples and exercises making it the most authoritative IELTS exam preparation course available.

Cambridge IELTS (Version 1-7)
Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1-7 are the most readily available and commonly used set of practice books. Each version contains four complete practice tests. It includes answers to the papers as well along with the Audio CDs contain listening material.










Official IELTS Practice Materials (Version 2009 & 2010)
This book is approved by the IELTS partners – the British Council, Cambridge ESOL and IDP. The practice materials give you valuable advice for all parts of the IELTS test – listening, reading, writing and speaking.