​When you are going through practice tests and marking your results, it is of course important to record your scores and see of you are improving. However, even more important than just increasing your score is reflecting upon a number of issues

1. Why are you getting answers wrong? Is it due to tricks and traps in the material? Is there a vocabulary deficiency? Are you rushing? Is it due to your listening or reading style?
2. What style of questions do you find most difficult? These are types that you should put more emphasis on in your self-study.
3. Have you spoken to a tutor ab out these areas of difficulty?
4. Have you experienced with a number of strategies to see what might work better?
5. When do you tend to slow down on the test and when do you speed up. Time management is a very important aspect of the successful test taking.

This is a section that demands 90 seconds of speaking, The only other section that demands this is part 7 (Opinion). The key strategy is to keep the recommendations to two. Here is a process I recommend:

1.Have an social introduction
You are giving advice but you should say hello and start by saying that you have heard that the person is going to do something and you are giving advice.

2.Give recommendation
Make this brief

3.Say why
Give the general reason why this suggestion is a good one. Many test takers forget to do this and quickly jump to the next suggestion but this misses an opportunity to explain the reasons for the suggestion.

4.Say what can happen
This is different from giving the reason. Give the positive consequence of your suggestion. You may phrase it in the conditional tense (Eg If you do some research first, you can avoid many problems in the future)

5.Give concluding advice
These are some concluding tips that might be what the person has to be careful of or just 

6.Sociable farewell​
Just a goodbye and a wish the person good luck. You could offer to help more in the future.
 
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In Part 2, be prepared to gather and guess about information from a visual and the provide responses to it. The first graphic could be an illustration of

1. Activities
2. Event (community or cultural such as Christmas or a craft fair)
3. Living arrangement like a home
4. Celebration (e.g. a birthday)

 
There are 3 questions. The question is spoken so you must listen carefully to the question. It will not appear on the screen. You have 40 seconds

The questions usually involve:

1. Describing what is happening
2. Describing what could possibly happen
3. Giving personal opinions
4. Stating some examples

The skills needed are

1. Describing what you see in a logical way
2. Understanding what you are seeing
3. Observing details in order so you can talk about them accurately
4. Using some descriptive adjectives and verbs accurately

 

If you get good practice with each of these skills you should be able to talk about any visual. 
However you will be better prepared if you can use a few standard sentence structures:

Language Needed

1. Describe what the picture is

 
This is a picture of ……..


    2.  Use  existential “there”
 

In the picture there is/are……..


     3.   Use present continuous
 
The boy is playing……….

     4.   Use speculative sentences with modal
 

I think he could/might be ……..

     5.  Use future sentences to predict what will happen
 

I think the boy will probably 

    6.    Use opinion phrases + should have PP to express how you feel
 

I think the boy should have been more careful

    7.   Giving examples
 

For example I once fell down and someone helped me so I think……