I planned to have an IELTS exam this year. It's been almost 10 years from my last English exam. I am little bit nervous and want to get a fine score. Though there's a saying that getting a score above overall 8.0 is really difficult, I made my mind to get this score. I am now studying English in 5 different ways. I divided English into 5 different parts; Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking and Vocabulary. I read a newspaper and scrap an article in OneNote. I go to the BBC website and have a course which is set to help a English learner. I try to upload a post in English and check the feedbacks from native English. I also have a English class through Skype in my lunch time for 30 minutes to improve speaking in English. I use Anki as a tool to review words and expressions that I learned through the ways which I mentioned above. I'm going to take the test up to three times and within the three times, I hope to get a score I would be satisfied with.
I'll sincierely take advice if you comment a reply. Thank you!