How to Balance Practice and Practice With Real Life English

I think students tend to go in extreme directions. Either they're doing too much of the textbook, which I know that you've been talking about on the other podcast,. And that's a really big mistake, actually, when you're doing test prep. In order to do well on IELTS or any test for that matter, you of course have to do a lot of study the test and use practice test books. But you also have to balance that practice with real life English... watching movies, listening to music, reading the newspaper will help you score higher on the IELTS test.