Have I ever gotten 40 out of 40 in listening and reading tests | Mahfuza's blog | IELTS

Have I ever gotten 40 out of 40 in listening and reading tests before my exam?

I receive this question quite often but couldn't answer fully yet. Honestly I can't remember me getting perfect 9.0 much, my scores were between 8-8.5 or 35-38 in numbers. I might have gotten 40 correct answers only once or twice at most and that even wasn't in my first attempt of solving that very test.
When I tell this, people wonder whether it is possible to get 9.0 in real exam even though I never got first-attempt 9.0 in practice or mock exams. Well for sure it is! Both at home and mock exams, no matter how focused you are and how much the atmosphere reflects the real exam, REAL EXAM has own unique environment so that you will be even more alert and concentrated. Not only in my experience but my friends also got very high scores like 8.0 or 8.5 in listening and reading, although their practice scores were 7.5 and barely 8.0.
So stop worrying about getting 9.0 in practice, what matters is the one you get in real exam!

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