IELTS Step-by-step MASTERING ALL SKILLS 7+ (Udemy.com)
Learn everything you need for the IELTS exam — get that IELTS 7+!
Created by: James Castleden
Last updated August 2023
What you will learn
- Improve your IELTS grade significantly to a 7+
- Learn tips and tricks that will immediately improve your grade
- Do learner training that will push your grade up higher than you thought possible
- Learn about the IELTS exam layout, typical stumbling blocks and examiner expectations
- Learn about every type of listening and reading task type
- Practice IELTS speaking with other students at a similar level to you
- Watch 15 speaking exams being done and analyse them in detail
- Analyse every type of writing possible in the exam
- Do 12 real listening and reading past papers and review them in detail
- Learn hundreds of idioms to improve your grade in the speaking exam
- Complete writing tasks and get feedback from the tutor and other students
How it compares
Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 13% of them
- Reviews710#223 of 536 by number of reviews
- Length82.2 hourslonger than 97% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2023earlier than 57% of them
Course Description
From ex-IELTS examiner James Castleden's YouTube channel IELTS Step-by-step comes a comprehensive course dedicated to improving your listening, reading, writing and speaking skills for an excellent 7+ performance in the IELTS exam. You'll discover hundreds of tips and tricks as well as clever, seldom-used techniques that will help you to achieve your aims — some students have progressed from a 6.0 to an 8.5 with only 3 months of study. And with 12 real past papers in listening and reading accompanied by detailed feedback for each and every answer, 15 speaking exams practiced and analysed, and every type of writing that could come up in the IELTS exam, this course is without doubt one of the best online to help you to thoroughly practice and prepare for the exam.
Please note that this course is suitable for strong B1 students and above. If you are below this level in English, you will not find this course beneficial — I would suggest you do the BBC general English course first (Google "BBC learning English lower intermediate").
★★★★★ "This course saved my life. I had 13 days to prepare for the exam so the fast track was an incredible help. I focused mostly on the writing and speaking videos and I got an 8. I'll be forever grateful to Mr. James Castleden for putting together this amazing course, you're a great teacher sir."—Valentina.
★★★★★ "So elaborate! I was exactly looking for a course like this. Thank you so much. Thanks, Mr. Castleden I have got an overall band 8 in IELTS this December. Your course was just incredible!"—Pratik
★★★★★ "It's best course. All in details and very good explanation for each part of items with lots of examples. Thank you for your awesome and thorough job!"—Andrei
★★★★★"Examiner is examiner (I guess it's not a grammatically correct sentence but I think you know what I mean)! James is very professional and experienced. He's got comprehensive experience about IELTS and he knows how to help students prepare for their exams. This course is my No.1 recommendation on Udemy!"—宇 高
★★★★★ "The fantastic quality of this course! I really glad that I joined this course !"—Annushka
★★★★★ "James, thanks for the course. I did the test and scored an overall of 8. Your listening test modules were a great help. I scored 8.5 on that test."—Joseph
★★★★★ "It was really fantastic since it deals with every points in detail."—Aman
★★★★★ "I believe that it is a great and amazing course for all students."—Phyu
★★★★★ "very interesting and very very clear the information"—Carlos
★★★★★ "Very good course and very good teacher, his pronounce is excellent that's make me feels good because i can understand him very well."—Muhammad
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
710 Reviews
James Castleden
I have been teaching English as a foreign and second language for over 20 years. As a former IELTS examiner with a Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Leicester and a DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults) from Cambridge University, I am extremely well qualified and experienced to help you to achieve your IELTS aims. I now work full time on the IELTS Step-by-step courses, working mostly with Udemy and on YouTube, helping students in more than 160 countries.
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Reviews
By Tresor Tshimanga on 12/26/2023
I am so happy to follow you the course is so encouraging so far. I heard that you say, you would discouraged the computer based testing on Listening. Could you please tell me why? Thank in advance
By Socionics 358 on 3/16/2023
the course is well developed, I got to learn skills (especially for listening) that helped me score an overall of 7. I also enjoyed the instructions of the teacher, very clear and insightful. there is a list of people who are also enrolled in this course who you can practice speaking with as well as a Facebook group.
By Ngoc Nhuan Do on 3/10/2023
The teacher explains it very well. I really enjoy this learning. However, English is very hard for me, so I think I must make much effort to get to the end of this course. Anyway, I love English, and I love IELTS.
By Adriano Fernando Tam de Jesus on 7/2/2022
The teacher gives detailed information and clever tips for each step of the IELTS, all are important. And he also provides quicker paths of study for those with limited time until the exam (for example, if you only have 5 weeks or 7 weeks). I shall continue my studies with him to make progress and achieve the scores needed to work in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.
By Valentina Sodiro on 5/13/2022
This course saved my life. I had 13 days to prepare for the exam so the fast track was an incredible help. I focused mostly on the writing and speaking videos and I got an 8. I'll be forever grateful to Mr. James Castleden for putting together this amazing course, you're a great teacher sir. Valentina.
By OIE Enaholo on 2/9/2022
I was about to pay for an online class which was to be held at a specific time. I have a very tight schedule during the day. For this reason, I know, I would have ended up missing most of my classes. So, for me, this was quite a good match because it has afforded me to take my lectures at any convenient time of my choice.
By 宇 高 on 7/22/2021
Examiner is examiner(I guess it's not a grammatically correct sentence but I think you know what I mean)! James is very professional and experienced. He's got comprehensive experience about IELTS and he knows how to help students prepare for their exams. This course is my No.1 recommendation on Udemy!
By 谭善文 on 3/4/2021
I'm pretty sure the teacher is excellent himself. It's easy for him to do IELTS, but his strategy is high required. Only if you are very good , then you can use this strategy well. But if I have already good,I need not to watch this video. So, I hope, this can have more basement, and become easier to let it more suitable for people who are not really good for english.
By Alexis Fernández on 2/23/2021
Not that dinamic as I wish but let´s see in the coming sections
By Ratchapol on 12/27/2020
The explanation is good. I can clearly understand concepts and hard vocabulary because you show it at the top right corner. Also, the cost of these lessons is inexpensive for students who need to pay for themselves.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100








