Congrats. I'm retaking the test in 10 days hoping to improve my Listening score. Fingers crossed.
hi..
http://ieltsonlinetests.com/catalogue
you may already be aware of these...but there are some recent tests updated also...I found the listening very tough...
practice the recent tests and as many from the recent ones (12/11/10) so that ur alertness may improve to be sharper...
if u scored 8 in writing u must be very good...so I suggest practicing listening as in listening u don't have the option of pausing and thinking about an answer as the conversation will move on...the only way to score is being extremely alert...
and avoiding silly mistakes..
while doing above practice I understood that writing 4.50 where the conversation said 4.5 is incorrect...(price of a ticket was context) and birth 'day' 29th April was correct and 29th April 1984 wrong (that would be birth date) ...post code number 'no.17456' was incorrect and 17456 was correct...
and years someone worked in Africa '1990-1992' was correct and '1990 to 1992' was incorrect (I was supposed to use only either two words or numbers,but I got confused abt how to write..19901992
...I did 1990 to 1992 thinking 'to' wont be counted as a word of answer...
so,increase ur alertness,pay attention to details and all the best...
you might check my inputs if interested
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/ielts-general-practice-tips.500948/