While patterns of improvement can be observed as greater or lesser according to the background characteristics of students in this study, statistical analysis has meant that no generalisation regarding the kind of student most likely to improve can be reliably made. It is nevertheless interesting to consider the characteristics of each of the individuals who did show the greatest increase in their IELTS Test results. Of the 40 students who participated in this study, only eight managed to improve by one IELTS band in their Overall score. The demographic details for these eight students are shown in Table 11
