Indeed
some traps given in writing IELTS. In task 2 of writing test for
example, test taker who gets the motion seems to get a kind of pressure
in giving his or her best ideas on the related topic. Actually, the real
point is not on ideas that are proposed by test taker. Therefore, test
taker must not worry so much on the idea for writing itself. For
example, test taker gets the motion to write “Is an English teacher has
to be a graduate student of English department?”. In this case, the
point is not on the pro side or contra side. It should be noted by test
taker that the examiner does not care on test taker’s choice. So what
the examiner care about?
The
examiner pays attention on the way test taker describes his or her
ideas. Examiner will only score test taker in this area, not covering
the idea that he or she brings. Besides, coherence and cohesion become
inseparable parts of the judgment. To make the paragraph meets these two
things, test taker needs to use connective words. However, it should be
remembered that more connective words does not always means better one.
Therefore, ideal use of connective words must be mastered as well by
test taker. Make sure for avoiding the overuse of it in writing IELTS.
Furthermore,
test taker has to realize that examiner pays attention on small things
that might be forgotten by him or her. It creates a chance for test
taker to make repeated mistakes. One of the common mistakes made is the
use of ‘s’ which may not entail some vocabularies such as ‘million’.
That is why, writing ‘four million’ is correct while ‘four millions’ is
incorrect. The same case should be applied every time test taker wants
to write using the word ‘thousand’. It should be written ‘three
thousand’, not ‘three thousands’.
