How to use ChatGPT to study for the IELTS exam

Hello, my name is Emma, and today we have a special video for you about the IELTS.

So many learners need to take the IELTS to get into a college or a university or for

immigration.

In this video, I am going to show you how you can use a free online tool called ChatGPT

to improve your IELTS scores and to prepare for the IELTS.

So you will get to watch me actually use ChatGPT, and I'm going to show you, can ChatGPT score

an IELTS essay?

Can it score the speaking portion of the IELTS?

Can it give you examples of essays?

Can it help you with grammar and vocabulary on the IELTS?

And so much more.

Some of you have never used ChatGPT before, and that's completely okay.

It's a very easy-to-use tool.

I actually have a video already about how to use ChatGPT to learn a language.

So you can watch that video to see how to log on to ChatGPT and just, you know, useful

tips in general for ChatGPT.

In this video, I'm going to focus specifically on the IELTS.

All right, so let's first use ChatGPT to find out information about the IELTS.

So we have at the bottom of our screen an area that says, "Send a message."

So I'm going to just ask ChatGPT, "What is the IELTS like?"

So tell me about the IELTS.

What is the exam like?

And there you have it.

It gives a lot of information.

So while it continues to provide an answer, I just wanted to say that this is a very useful

feature because if you use things like Google, sometimes it takes a while to get the information

you want.

You have to keep searching.

Whereas the nice thing about ChatGPT is you can find or ask it questions and more questions,

and it's all in the same chat.

So that's a very useful feature.

So going back up, so ChatGPT gave me a lot of information about what the IELTS is.

So it said, "It's one of the most widely recognized English language proficiency exams

in the world.

It's designed to assess the language skills of candidates who wish to study, work, or

migrate to English-speaking countries."

And then it also goes on to talk about the two types of IELTS exams, the academic and

the general.

And then it gives an overview.

It talks about what happens on the listening.

Okay, there are four recorded monologues and conversations.

Then it talks about the reading.

There's three or four texts.

It talks about the writing and the speaking.

And it tells you the test duration.

Okay, so ChatGPT sometimes writes a lot and uses a lot of maybe difficult words.

Remember, you can always ask ChatGPT to simplify language or to make things more simple or

shorter.

If it writes something that's too long, you can ask it to make it shorter.

So the purpose of this video is not to look so much at ChatGPT's answers and understand

the English in the answers, but just to see more the different ways ChatGPT can help you.

So imagine this is too much information for you.

You don't want to read all of this.

You can also ask it to simplify it.

So you can say, "Make this more simple."

And look, now ChatGPT has changed its answer and made it into something a lot more simple

and easy to understand.

So now it just says the exam has four sections and just gives a little bit of information

about them.

You might have other questions about the IELTS.

You might be in a rush and you want to find out, okay, according to this, you have to

write something.

You might want to find out how much do you have to write?

So you have to write an essay for the IELTS.

So you can ask, "How many words can your essay be?"

So, "How many words should my IELTS essay be?"

Okay, and then it tells you the recommended word count between 250 to 300 words.

And then it says, "However, there is no strict word limit, and you will not be penalized

for writing more than the suggested range."

So ChatGPT is giving us a lot of useful information.

Let's ask it one more question.

So I know some people want to know, "Can I take the IELTS on a computer or do I have

to handwrite my answers?"

Many learners get stressed about this because, you know, writing, some of us write very slowly

or maybe our handwriting is difficult to read.

So let's ask ChatGPT, "Can you do the IELTS on a computer?"

Okay, so now this is very important to note.

ChatGPT starts off the sentence by saying, "As of my last update in September 2021,

the IELTS exam was traditionally a pen and paper test.

But some centers had started offering the IELTS on a computer."

And then it talks a little bit about the advantages of computer-based IELTS versus pen and paper.

What I want to highlight here is that it mentions the date September 2021.

I am using the free version of ChatGPT, and at the time of this recording, it's able to

access information up until 2021.

There may be differences with the paid-for version or future editions of ChatGPT.

So as of now, the free version goes up until 2021, but this might change.

And so that's a limitation.

Before we continue, I want to find out, what do you find the most difficult part of the IELTS?

For those of you who have taken it or are preparing for it, what is the most difficult

part of the IELTS, in your opinion?

You can write your comments in the comments section below.

I'm really interested to see what people have to say about this.

I know for a lot of people I've talked to, one of the most difficult parts about preparing

for the IELTS is getting feedback.

Learners practice, you know, people taking the IELTS, they will write practice essays,

they'll do practice speaking.

But one of the difficulties is finding somebody to score their practice essays.

You know, you can write a lot, but how do you know if what you're writing is good unless

you have a teacher or somebody to actually look at the essay you've written?

So this is where ChatGPT comes in very handy.

It can actually provide you with feedback for both the writing part and the speaking

part of the IELTS.

So in a moment, I'm going to show you what I mean, and I'm going to show you different

essays and how ChatGPT has scored them.

All right.

So I wanted to know how accurate is ChatGPT in scoring essays for the IELTS.

So what I did was I took a bunch of practice books, like the ones behind me.

So for example, IELTS Academic 16, IELTS Academic 13, and some of the other books behind me,

and I looked at their example essays that actually show a score.

So for example, in a book like this, you can actually find...

Let me see if I can find one for you.

You can actually see a practice essay and the score with feedback.

So I took these from these books, and I wanted to compare, "Is the score the same?

Does ChatGPT give the essay from this book the same score as the IELTS examiner did?"

So I'm going to show you what I found out.

So I asked ChatGPT, "What would this IELTS essay score approximately?"

Now, a key word when you're using ChatGPT and asking it to score something is use the

word "approximately", because sometimes it will not give you a score.

It will tell you, you know, "I'm not an IELTS examiner.

I can't give you a score."

But if you use the word "approximately", it will give you a score.

Whether or not the score is correct is another question.

But anyways, you don't have to read this essay.

It's filled with mistakes, as well as issues with organization, you know, some spelling

mistakes.

But according to the book I took this from, this essay...

Let me see what this one scored.

This essay scored a 6.

Now, when I asked ChatGPT what the score for this essay would be, ChatGPT wrote, "Assessing

an essay score is subjective and can vary depending on the specific criteria used by

the examiner.

However, I can provide some feedback on the essay you've written."

So then it gave me some feedback.

It said, "Paragraph 1.

The opening sentence is clear and presents your opinion.

The idea that all subjects are important is briefly stated.

The connection between history, science, and technology is highlighted.

There are some grammatical errors and awkward phrasing are present."

And then it gives some information about paragraph 2 and paragraph 3.

And then at the very bottom, it says, "Given the content, if the essay were to be scored

on the IELTS scale, it would likely fall in the range of 5.5 to 6.5."

Okay, so this actually scored similar to what it was in the book.

So I wanted to test this a couple of times to see if this happens consistently.

So then I took another essay.

So let me show you.

And again, I put, "What band?"

You can use the word "score" also.

"What band or what score do you think this essay would get for writing task 1?"

And then what I did was I copied the essay from here, including its mistakes, and I wrote it out.

So what did ChatGPT tell me?

Well, ChatGPT again said, "As an AI language model, I don't have personal opinions or the

ability to assign grades, but I can analyze the essay and provide some feedback on its

potential strengths and weaknesses."

And then ChatGPT told me some of the strengths of the essay, such as that there's a clear

structure with three paragraphs.

It talked about the weaknesses or the problems in the essay.

The essay lacks coherence and clarity.

There are numerous grammatical and syntax errors.

And then it gave some improvement suggestions.

So what can I do to fix my essay?

And then at the very end, it said, "Based on the weaknesses identified, the essay may

not receive a high band score in an IELTS or similar writing task.

However, with some revisions and improvements, it has the potential."

So in this case, it did not give me a score.

So I asked it again, "What is an approximate IELTS band score for this essay?"

And again, it told me it doesn't have the capability to assign a precise IELTS band

score, but then it does tell me a score.

It says, "The essay might fall into the band score range of 4 to 5."

So according to the book I took the essay from, this essay scored, let me see, a 5.

And ChatGPT said it would score between a 4 and a 5.

So it was pretty accurate with that.

And I've done this numerous times.

It often is pretty accurate.

It often does score essays the way I would score an essay.

And it often does give good feedback.

It tells you what are the strengths and the weaknesses.

And you can also ask for more details, too.

You can say, "What were my spelling mistakes in my essay?"

And look, it's just listed all the spelling mistakes I made in the essay.

Or I can say, "What were examples of grammar mistakes in my essay?"

And now it's actually dissecting my essay and showing me all the different grammar mistakes.

And it also is showing the correction.

So let's look at an example of what I mean by this.

So, if we look at the first one, the mistake in the essay was,

"The chart shows about percentage of households with electrical appliances

and number of hours of housework per week per household between 1920 and 2019."

Then, so this was incorrect.

We made a grammar mistake here.

The grammar mistake, it highlighted.

It said, "About percentage."

That's a mistake.

And then it corrected it.

"The chart shows the percentage of households with electrical appliances."

So that's amazing.

So it can actually look at your essays and it can give you feedback and tell you what

are the grammar mistakes, what are the spelling mistakes.

And you can also...

This is something really cool you can do, too.

You can actually ask it to write the essay for you, not during the actual IELTS.

You can't do that during the test itself.

But just to see an example, you can say, "Can you rewrite my essay for the IELTS with correct..."

Or let's just say, "for a high score."

And let's see what it does.

Okay, so it has...

We'll look at it in a moment.

So if I go scroll up a little bit, it says, "As an AI language model, I can help you improve

your essay for the IELTS writing.

However, I cannot guarantee a specific score as the final evaluation depends on various

factors.

Nevertheless, I'll rewrite your essay while addressing the issues and making it more coherent

and accurate."

So look, it's actually rewritten my essay.

So it's the revised essay.

And it's...

It looks a lot better.

The provided charts display the percentage of households with electrical appliances and

the number of hours spent on housework per week.

And then it talks about the different charts.

So, and it...

Then it tells you what it did.

It says, "I have made improvements to grammar, punctuation, and clarity in this revised essay."

So this is great.

You can actually write an essay yourself, get feedback on what spelling mistakes did

you make, what grammar mistakes did you make, and then you can actually ask, you know, what

the score would have been.

And after you do all that, you can actually ask it to rewrite the essay for you and compare

your essay to its essay.

So, again, this is the number one way I think ChatGPT can be helpful.

It can help provide you instant feedback.

So, of course, it's always best to have a teacher or an IELTS instructor to help you

prepare for the IELTS.

But for some people, that can be very difficult to access.

So this is another way you can actually get feedback about your writing.

And you can do something similar for the speaking part of the exam as well.

Now what I want to show you is, just to highlight, again, it's not always 100% correct.

So I also wrote a terrible essay.

I'm going to show you the terrible essay I wrote for the IELTS.

Here is my IELTS essay on transportation.

So I wrote, "I think bike is best form of transport.

It good for health.

It fun.

Best for environment.

Downside is sometimes not enough bike lanes or not safe.

If lazy can be difficult.

It's also cheaper."

So this is not a good essay.

It has lots of grammar mistakes.

I've also... it's too short.

It doesn't meet what you need to do for the IELTS.

Remember, there's a word count.

You need to have at least 250 words.

This essay probably has, I don't know, 40.

It doesn't have a lot.

So I thought ChatGPT was going to give this essay a bad score.

It should get a low score.

But what ChatGPT actually did was it said, "As an AI model, I cannot assign an official

IELTS score, but I can provide an approximate score based on the evaluation of your essay.

Keep in mind that the actual IELTS scoring takes into account various factors, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah."

And then it says, "Based on the content you provided, your essay might score around a

band 6 or 7."

That's not true.

This would not score a band 6 or 7.

And then it talked about the strengths of my essay, which there are some good things

about it, and areas for improvement.

So I'm going to double check.

Are you sure this would score a 6 to 7?

Okay, and then it again says, "Maybe not."

It might have caused some confusion.

But again, for many of the essays I tried, it did give an accurate score.

Sometimes it doesn't, but a lot of the times it does.

So be careful with this, but I would still use it because it, you know, it's still nice

to get instant feedback.

All right, well, let's look at some other things ChatGPT can do for you when preparing

for your IELTS writing.

All right, so let me show you the ways ChatGPT can help you practice for the IELTS.

So, again, for anything practice makes perfect, if you want to score high on the IELTS, you

got to practice.

For writing, you need to write a lot of practice essays or practice letters.

So how can ChatGPT help with this?

Well, you can ask it for topics.

So, for example, "Can you give me four IELTS essay topics?"

And then there it goes.

It gives you four different essay topics.

So the first one it says is on technology and society.

It asks you to discuss the impact of technology on interpersonal communication.

Is technology strengthening or weakening our social connections?

It gives an example of one on the environment.

Or number three is on education and personal development.

So that's great.

So imagine if I decide to choose the first topic it gave me.

So on technology and society.

Maybe I have no idea what an IELTS essay looks like.

So I can actually ask it to write an answer for it.

So I can say, "Can you write an essay?"

And I'll just write, "IELTS essay on technology and society."

And I know I made two spelling mistakes there.

I spelled technology and society wrong.

But I also want to show you that you don't have to be perfect when you use ChatGPT.

That's one of the nice things.

You can make mistakes.

And it often will still understand you.

Okay, so it wrote an essay.

So if I were preparing for the IELTS, I would read the essay.

And, you know, you can pay attention to some things it uses.

You can ask, for example, "What is the thesis of the essay?"

And it can break it down for you.

So the thesis of an essay is the main argument.

So in this case, the thesis of ChatGPT's essay is,

"Technology has had a profound effect on interpersonal communication,

presenting both benefits and challenges."

Well, maybe I speak a different language, and I don't know the word "profound."

I don't understand what this means.

So again, I can have it translate for me.

I can say, "Translate this into Spanish."

And then it can tell you in Spanish what the main argument is.

So you can ask it to produce countless models of IELTS essays.

And you can ask it to give you examples of different band essays.

So, for example, "Show me an IELTS essay for Task 1 that would score an 8."

And so it can give you an example that shows an 8.

So now I'm going to say...

And again, I'm going through this very quickly,

because ultimately I want to show you how you can experiment with this.

So I recommend you try the same things and see what answers it gives to you, you know?

The purpose of this is for you to get familiar with ChatGPT

so you can use it to help you with your IELTS.

So one of the difficulties many people have with the IELTS writing and speaking

is you're asked a question and you might not have ideas on what you can talk about

or what you can write about.

So let me show you how ChatGPT can help with this.

So imagine I'm going to get chat...

or I'm going to have this tool give me the question.

I'll say, "Give me an IELTS essay prompt."

Okay, so ChatGPT has given me an essay prompt.

Here is my IELTS essay question.

"In many countries, the number of people choosing to live alone is increasing significantly.

Discuss the reasons behind this trend and its potential impact on society."

So we need to talk about why people are choosing to live alone

and what are the reasons behind this and how is it affecting society.

We need to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this growing phenomenon

and provide relevant examples and support with evidence.

So imagine I get this question and I'm thinking,

"I don't know. I don't know why people are choosing to live alone."

We can, as practice, ask ChatGPT for some ideas.

So I can say, "What are some ideas on how to answer this?"

Okay, and so what it has done is it's actually written an outline of an essay.

So if we scroll up, it's taken the question.

It talks about what you can include in an introduction.

It's not actually writing the whole essay this time.

It's just giving you ideas.

For the first paragraph, it says you can talk about reasons behind why people are living alone.

It's saying changing societal norms and values is one, career and education opportunities,

people are moving to urban areas or abroad for work.

It's talking about economic factors, delayed marriage, and so forth.

And then it talks about paragraph two.

It gives some potential impact.

So how does this affect society?

And ChatGPT gives some examples.

It gives a positive impact.

It promotes personal growth.

It gives a negative impact and it talks a bit more.

And then it talks about the advantages of living alone with some ideas

and the disadvantages of living alone.

And then it talks about what you can include in your conclusion.

So if, you know, one of the ways to prepare for the IELTS is to practice,

to look at a lot of different IELTS questions and think about how would I answer this?

And if you have a situation where you can't think of an answer, you don't know,

you can look at this, not during the actual test, but just while you're preparing,

and you can get ideas on how to answer questions.

You can do the same thing with the speaking part of the IELTS.

So imagine we want to know some examples of speaking questions.

I can say, "Give me some speaking questions from the IELTS."

And again, I made a spelling mistake.

That's okay.

I'm doing that.

You can see you don't have to write perfectly with ChatGPT.

Okay.

So it's just given me a whole bunch of questions for parts one, two, and three.

So one of the questions it said is, "What are benefits of going on vacation with friends or family?"

So imagine I got this question.

And what I can do, imagine I don't know the answer.

I can't think of any ideas.

I can ask it for ideas.

What are the benefits of going on vacation with friends or family?

Can you give me ideas on what to talk about?

Okay.

And now it's giving a whole bunch of different ideas.

Now, again, this is a lot.

Maybe I can get it to give me something a little shorter.

Give me three ideas that are simple.

Okay.

So it's given me three simple ideas for the benefits of going on vacation with family or friends.

One, shared fun and joy.

Two, safety and comfort.

Three, cost sharing.

So, again, this is just to show you can get ideas on how to answer these questions from this tool,

which is great.

Another thing I wanted to show you is this tool can actually provide emotional support

for people who are writing the IELTS.

Now, I know you might think, but it's a computer system or, you know, it's AI.

It's not a human.

How can it provide emotional support?

Well, let me show you.

It's actually kind of cute.

So I can say, "I'm stressed about the IELTS.

What should I do?"

Okay.

So it gives a lot of advice, including things such as sleep well.

Again, if you want, you can translate this into your own language.

You just say, you know, "Translate into Korean," or whatever language you speak,

and it can actually give you the information in your own language.

Another thing I'm going to ask it is maybe I just want some encouragement.

Give me some encouragement for the IELTS.

I'm just going to hit stop generating.

Okay.

I'll write more simple.

Okay.

So ChatGPT wrote, "You've got this.

Keep going.

Stay positive.

Believe in yourself.

You've prepared well, and you are capable of doing great on the IELTS.

Take one step at a time.

Celebrate your progress.

And remember that you're not alone.

You have people cheering for your success.

Stay focused and confident, and you'll do great.

Good luck."

So that's nice.

You can also, for people who don't do well on the IELTS,

imagine I fail.

You know, I needed a score of 7, and I got a score of 1.

I can say, "You can't really fail the IELTS."

But I didn't get the score I wanted, but I might write, "I failed the IELTS.

What should I do?"

Okay.

So and with the IELTS also, people often have to take it multiple times.

They don't necessarily get the score they want the first time.

And that's okay.

So ChatGPT has actually given us, you know, some great pieces of advice on what to do

if you fail the IELTS.

It wrote, "I'm sorry to hear that you didn't achieve the desired results in your IELTS

exam.

It's completely normal to feel disappointed, but don't be too hard on yourself.

Failing the IELTS doesn't mean you won't succeed in the future.

Here's what you can do."

And then it gives some great advice on what to do if this happens.

So again, this tool can do a lot.

It can help you in preparing for the IELTS, but it can also help you with the emotional

parts of the IELTS as well, in terms of encouragement, or what do you do if you feel like

you're not doing as well as you should.

So these are just some great features.

So now what I want to show you is how you can do more practice with this tool.

All right.

So another way this tool can help you is by giving you different ways to practice areas

where you maybe need more practice.

So I'll give you an example of this.

Imagine when I write, I make mistakes with capital letters.

I don't know when to use the proper capital letter.

And maybe I've gotten feedback from ChatGPT or even from my teacher that, you know, I

need to practice capital letters.

So what I've written here is, "I have problems with capital letters and punctuation."

Punctuation means, like, dots, commas, colons, semicolons.

So imagine this is the feedback I often get.

"I have problems with this."

I can ask this tool to create, I've written, "Can you create a practice paragraph for me

to work on capitalization and punctuation?"

Okay, so look.

So what it's done is it said, "Certainly, below is a practice paragraph for you to work

on capitalization and punctuation.

Remember to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences, improper nouns, as well as appropriate

punctuation marks at the end of sentences."

So what it has done is it's created a paragraph, and it's put it in these quotes, that has

a lot of mistakes.

So, for example, last weekend, my friends and I went on a fun hiking trip.

What I noticed right off the bat is the L needs to be capitalized.

So what I could do if I were a learner is I would actually take this, and I would fix

it.

So I would change, so I'd take what the practice was, I would then correct it.

"Last weekend, my friends and I went on a fun hiking trip to the beautiful Rocky Mountains.

We," that should be capitalized, "started our journey early Saturday morning and hiked

for hours to reach the summit of," I'm going to put capital for Mount.

Oh, there, Mount Eagle.

Great, and so forth.

And I could actually correct the whole essay.

I'm just going to do part of it for now.

And then I can write, "Is this correct?"

And look, so what I wrote is correct.

It wrote, "Yes, that's correct.

Well done."

You've capitalized the first letter of the sentence and the pronoun "I."

And you can do this with other things, too.

So imagine I have a hard time writing introductions for the IELTS essays.

I can say, "I want to practice writing introductions for Task 1 IELTS essays.

Can you give me a practice?"

So, what it's done is it's given an example of just the introduction, and you can ask

it to give you more practice with this.

Another cool thing about the IELTS, so you can ask it to give you different practice.

Let's try grammar now.

"I want to practice my grammar for the IELTS.

Can you give me an essay with mistakes to correct?"

Okay, so now it's created an essay for me, and I don't know if you saw that, but let's

go up a little bit.

It said up here, "Below is an essay with some grammar mistakes.

Your task is to identify and correct the errors."

So you can do this as practice.

You can read this essay and try to figure out where the grammar mistakes are.

And then after you do that, you share it with ChatGPT, and it can tell you if you're correct

or not.

And that's what I mean by feedback.

It's great to have a teacher to help you with this, but ChatGPT is available 24 hours a

day.

You can get instant feedback.

You don't have to wait.

So that's one of the really cool benefits of this tool.

Okay, so you can use this tool to help you improve your vocabulary score on the speaking

part and writing part of the IELTS.

How do you do this?

Well, let me just show you some examples.

I can write a question.

Imagine I need to do the first essay of the IELTS, where I have to write about some sort

of chart or graph or diagram.

So that's task one.

I can say, "What are some key vocabulary words for task one of the IELTS?"

And let me put "writing task one."

Oh, okay.

Wow.

So that's a little bit too many.

I don't want 50 words immediately.

That's a little stressful to see so many.

So I might just say, "Give me 10 words."

So actually, ChatGPT just got a little bit confused.

It just gave me 10 random words.

I want 10 words to help me for the IELTS.

So let me rephrase this question.

So I'm just going to copy this.

And again, this is what I mean.

Sometimes ChatGPT can make mistakes or not understand you or what you want completely.

So what are -- instead of "some," I'm going to change this to "10."

What are 10 key vocabulary words for writing task one of the IELTS?

That's better.

So these are actually words I would expect for task one of the IELTS.

We have "data," "trends," "figures," "graph," "chart," "table," "diagram,"

"proportion," "fluctuation," "comparison."

And it says, "These words are commonly used in task one."

So -- and what you can do is if it's a new word you don't know, for example, "fluctuation,"

you can actually say, "What does fluctuation mean?"

And then if it's too long, you can ask it, "More simple."

Okay.

So I like that it's a back and forth with this tool.

Or you can have it translate.

"Translate fluctuation into Italian."

Okay.

And you can do the same thing with some of the other tasks.

So I can say, "I know 'in my opinion' is a very important phrase."

On the IELTS, you have to give your opinion a lot.

And you lose marks if you keep using the same words again and again and again.

So you can use this tool to find out other ways to say that.

So let's check.

What are some other ways to say "in my opinion" that I can use on the IELTS?

Okay, great.

It's given 10 great examples that mean "in my opinion," "from my perspective," "in my view,"

"as I see it," "personally," "I believe," "it seems to me that," "I reckon that," "to my way

of thinking," "it is my belief that," "as far as I'm concerned," "the way I see it is."

So that's great.

And you can do the same with "agree."

We know we have to talk about, you know, what you agree with or disagree with on the IELTS.

That happens a lot.

Or "benefits" and "disadvantages."

So let's say, "What are some other words that mean 'disadvantage'?"

Great, and now you have some great words.

"Drawback," "downside," "limitation," "weakness," "shortcoming."

These can be really good words when it comes to writing an IELTS essay.

All right, so let's look at something else we can do with this tool.

All right, so one way to do well on the IELTS is to understand how you are being scored.

So on the IELTS, they score you on different things.

So you can ask this tool about the scoring.

For example, I can say, "What are you scored on for the IELTS speaking test or task?"

Okay, so it gives a lot of information, but the key point that I like that it says here

is it gives you the four main criteria used for scoring for the speaking.

They score you on fluency and coherence, on lexical resource, and what does that mean?

It means your vocabulary.

They score you on your grammar and your pronunciation.

And again, it talks about the range of the score you can get from zero to nine.

So nine is the highest score you can get.

Zero is the lowest score you can get.

For a lot of people reading this, they would have a lot of questions.

Like, "What's lexical resource?

I don't understand fluency and coherence.

What do these words mean?"

So again, if you don't understand something, just say, "Make it simple.

I don't understand what is lexical resource, for example."

So lexical resource was 0.2.

It's not a common word.

So you can say things like this, and then it will explain what it is in greater detail.

Oh, lexical resource means your vocabulary.

So the words you use.

So again, if you don't know something that this tool tells you, you can ask it to make it simple,

or you can also translate it into your own language.

So I wanted to show you one other cool thing about the speaking.

You can actually tell this tool to pretend to be an IELTS examiner.

So I can say, "I want to practice the IELTS speaking.

You are my examiner.

Let's do the test together."

Okay, so what happens?

Well, in this case, this tool actually did something I didn't want it to do.

It's given me a whole example of the IELTS test for speaking.

So if I go back up, this isn't what I wanted it to do, but it has given me what the examiner says.

"Hello, can you please introduce yourself?"

And then it has given me what I should say.

"Hello, my name is Emma, and I'm from Canada.

I currently work as an English teacher.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, traveling, and spending time with friends and family."

So I actually want it to have a back and forth.

So maybe let me try to ask it again.

"Can you ask me one question from the IELTS speaking test?"

Okay, so this is better.

So now what it's done is it's asked one specific question.

"Do you prefer to live in a city or a rural area?

Why?"

And then it says, "Please provide your response as if you were the test taker."

So what I would recommend doing for this is you answer this question and record yourself.

So if you can record yourself on the computer or on your phone, answer it.

And then after you answer it in a recording, type up what you actually said.

So, and this is to make it more like the speaking.

If you just write your answer, that's a way to practice as well.

But it's good if you actually speak and practice speaking.

So let me give an example of an answer.

I could say, "I prefer the countryside.

I like nature and space."

Okay, and now it's given more information.

What I want to know now is, "Was my answer good?"

So I'm just going to take this answer.

I'll put it back here.

And I'll say, "Was this a good IELTS answer?"

"How can I improve it?"

Okay, and now it's giving a lot of feedback, which again is what is so great about this tool.

Sometimes it gives too much feedback, but...

So what it said is that it's a good start for the IELTS speaking.

It directly addresses the question and gives a clear preference for living in the countryside.

However, to further improve your answer and make it more comprehensive,

you can consider the following suggestions.

And then it gives suggestions on how I could have improved this answer.

You know, it tells me, "Give more specific details.

Elaborate on nature and space.

Explain the benefits."

So again, this is a great way to practice and get instant feedback for your answers for the IELTS.

All right, well, there's one more thing I wanted to show you.

If you are taking the general IELTS exam...

So remember, there's a general and the academic.

On the general, you often will have to write a letter.

And just to give you an example of this, we'll ask this tool to give us an example.

"Give an example prompt for an IELTS letter."

Okay, so it's given us the prompt for a letter.

It said, "You recently visited a foreign country and stayed with a host family.

Write a letter to the host family expressing your gratitude,

describing your experiences, and expressing your desire to stay in touch."

In your letter, you should...

And then it gives some information that you need to include

and that you need to write approximately 150 to 200 words.

So imagine I need to write a letter for the IELTS during the test.

One question a lot of people have is, "How do they end a letter?"

So you can actually ask questions like this for this tool, too.

I can say, "What are some ways to end a letter for the IELTS?"

Okay, and they've given some great examples.

"Yours faithfully when you don't know who you're writing to."

"Yours sincerely."

"Best regards."

"Warm regards."

"Thank you once again."

"And looking forward to hearing from you."

So, you know, one of the nice things is you can, again, ask for some key vocabulary

that you can memorize and practice using, and then use in the actual IELTS itself.

So I wanted now to talk about what I think are the advantages and the disadvantages

of using this tool in preparing for the IELTS.

So in terms of the advantages, I already mentioned this before,

but I think the feedback is amazing.

You can write an essay and get instant feedback for your essay.

You can write your speaking answer, and you can get feedback.

You can find out what was good about your answer,

and what were some of the problems with your answer, and how to fix that.

So the feedback makes this great.

At the time of the filming of this video, this tool is free, which is wonderful as well.

Another great pro or benefit of using this tool is that you can learn more

about the IELTS in general.

You can ask questions like, "How long is the essay?"

Or, you know, "Can I take the IELTS on a computer?"

"Where can I take the IELTS?"

"What can I expect in the listening section?"

So this can be great because if you Google these things,

sometimes it takes time to find answers.

Whereas if you use this tool, you get a lot of answers instantly.

And then you can also ask for this...

When ChatGPT gives you an answer, you can ask it to make the answer more simple,

or you can ask it to translate the answer into your own language.

So these are some great features of using ChatGPT when preparing for the IELTS.

One of the issues with ChatGPT is that in the free version,

as of the time of the filming of this video, it only goes up to 2021.

So it accesses information from the internet from 2021 or before.

So it doesn't always have the most up-to-date or the newest information.

This might be different in the paid-for version.

Another disadvantage with this tool is that it can't score you on things

such as listening or reading or speaking.

It can score you partially on speaking,

but the tool doesn't actually know your pronunciation.

It doesn't know if you're speaking too quickly.

So when you ask for it to score you on speaking,

it can't give you an accurate score because it, you know, everything you're doing is by typing.

So that is one of the disadvantages.

It might not be as great of a tool for the listening, reading,

or parts of the speaking of the IELTS.

But I think it's really good for the writing and components of the speaking.

I think another key point I would say is that although this tool is often right,

sometimes it's wrong.

So you got to be careful because you might get good answers that are correct most of the time,

but every so often it might give you wrong information or the wrong answers.

So be careful with that.

But overall, I love this tool.

I think it's amazing what it can do for you for the IELTS.

I love that it can also give you encouragement and support.

You know, if you need encouragement, you want some nice words,

this tool can tell you, you got this.

You can do the IELTS.

So I really like that feature.

So overall, I recommend using ChatGPT when preparing for the IELTS.

But just remember, you use this to prepare for the IELTS.

You can't use ChatGPT during the actual IELTS test.

This is all to practice with.

You can't have ChatGPT actually write you your real IELTS essay.

This is all, you're doing this all during the preparation of the tests.

So the bottom line, this tool can help you with your IELTS preparations,

and you don't need to be scared.

I know it's new technology, but this technology can really help you prepare for the IELTS.

So thank you so much for watching this video.

I hope you learned something.

If you like this video, you might want to check out some of my other IELTS videos.

I have a great one on IELTS and academic listening.

Today we talked mainly about writing and speaking,

but check out my IELTS listening or reading videos.

They can be very helpful as well.

So thank you for watching.

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And until next time, take care and good luck.