Miscellaneous IELTS tips
Your spelling, vocabulary, punctuation, grammar and sequencers are assessed throughout the IELTS test. The more vocabulary and grammar you use correctly, the higher your band score! Here are some tips to build your skills
- Grammar is the basis of language and you need it to understand the meaning of sentences in Listening and Reading, and to express yourself clearly in Speaking and Writing
- Linking words (e.g. despite, nevertheless, furthermore) give fluency and organisation to your Writing and demonstrate different ways of expressing your ideas in the Speaking. Try practicing linking words everyday
- In the IELTS Writing test, examiners look at correct use of punctuation as part of your grammar and accuracy score, so you need to know when and how to use full stops, apostrophes, commas, semi-colons and quotation marks
(from IDP)
