Hi
As you probably know, in IELTS Academic Writing task 1 you have to write a summary of the information in a graph, chart, table or diagram (or more than one of these). When the information relates to countries such as America or Britain, which it often does, there is one very common mistake that I see a lot of candidates we are tutoring make.
The mistake is leaving out the article ‘the‘ when reporting information about the US or the UK.
When a country has a noun such as ‘states’, ‘kingdom’ or ‘republic’ in its name, the article ‘the‘ should be used.
What’s more, ‘the UK’ or ‘the US’ both count as two words while ‘UK’ or ‘US’ only count as one.
What this means is that if you use the article ‘the’ correctly, you’ll make less grammar mistakes and have a better chance of writing at least 150 words (the minimum word count for task 1).
That’s two steps closer to getting the IELTS Writing band score you need.
Pete
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Please help me to get minimum 7.5 in each module.
I am getting score not more than 6 in listening, writing, reading.
Speaking I am getting constantly 7. I do not where I am making mistakes.
Thank you
Sorry I forgot to mention both in Academic.
Hi Rakesh,
If you’ve taken the IELTS test several times and have got a band score 6.0 for listening, reading and writing each time, you’re probably going to have to spend some time improving your level of English before you can improve your band scores to 7.5. What I mean is that you should focus on improving all of your English skills in general rather than just retaking the IELTS test or doing practice IELTS tests.
Have a look at the video in our blog post ‘How I got an IELTS Reading band score 8.0‘ to hear how a candidate prepared for the IELTS Reading test by reading all different kinds of text in English.
If you’d like some individual help with your IELTS preparation, have a look at our tutoring options on the ‘IELTS tutoring‘ page of our website.
Pete