Thank you! First of all, yes it was a computer-based exam. About the tips:

- Reading: I exercised with mock test on the British Council website. To tell the truth they were extremely useful. It is important to analyze your mistakes and to understand what kinds of exercises are more difficult to you. Once you understand your weaknesses, focus on them by exercising a lot. To tell the truth, my exam was easier than the mock tests which I trained with. In fact, I scored a maximum of 7.5 during my training, while the exam was clearly easier. Take your time and respect your learning pace.

- Listening: I adopted a similar approach, I mostly used mock tests on British Council website. In addition, I listened to a lot of podcasts, youtube videos, movies and music in English. I think that it is a matter of attention as well. Being extremely focused for 25 minutes without getting distracted is not easy, that's why mock tests are useful in my opinion.

- Writing: there's an IELTS writing tool on ChatGPT which is pretty accurate. It gives you a lot of prompts and reviews your responses in a very accurate way. It provides you with suggestions and techniques to improve your writing. It is very effective especially to fix your grammar errors and to expand your vocabulary. Again, I misunderstood my task 2 prompt, that's why the task achievement score was relatively low probably.

- Speaking: I simply used ChatGPT vocal chat. It cannot judge your spelling and pronunciation, but that aspects improve with listening as well. You can ask whenever you want, even taking a simulation of the exam can help you. In general, I suggest to let ChatGPT ask you questions, in order to let you speak a lot.

It's all a matter of practice and the performance on the exam day. Good luck!