{"id":538,"date":"2016-07-21T12:19:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/ielts\/?p=538"},"modified":"2019-04-19T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:43:12","slug":"long-study-ielts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/ielts\/long-study-ielts\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Should I Study for the IELTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In my last post, we looked at how many hours (daily and weekly) you should study for the IELTS<\/a>. But how long should you study for the IELTS with your IELTS prep<\/a> in total? For days? Weeks? Months? How much time is enough time to be IELTS ready? The answer to that question really depends on you.<\/p>\n

How long should I study for the IELTS? This depends on your current level of English.<\/h2>\n

If you are highly proficient in English, you just might be able to prepare for the IELTS in a month or less. Highly skilled English users only need to focus their studies on test knowledge and strategy. And you can learn the structure of an exam and the best strategies for the exam pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

Language skills, on the other hand, take a lot longer to build. If you are having trouble actually understanding IELTS reading passages or audio tracks, you need to really take the time to boost your comprehension. (You can see how comfortable you are with our vocabulary lesson video below.) And if you don’t speak English very clearly or find writing in English to be hard, you can’t improve these skills overnight. Boosting general language skills takes months, not days or weeks.<\/p>\n