Secrets of IELTS 7+ (Academic or General)

 What is the difference between IELTS 7 and 8 band in writing ? 

Is it just memorizing rare vocabularies and using it forcefully? Nope! If so, it may not collocate well--usually called unnatural. This happens when a testee transliterate ideas directly from their own mother tongue to English. However, to resolves this dilemma, practice writing in English-English mode. In other words, students should create simple draft first in basic English, and then change it into a modified version.

In reality, Ielts 7 band ess@ys should have 3 minimum criteria. Firstly, sentence level --80% of sentences are error-free. Secondly, Ess@y level-- should have an academic ess@y level introduction and conclusion. Thirdly, Body level-- Should have an appropriate topic sentence, supporting sentences (relevant example) and a concluding sentence.

1,Sentence level: Majority of sentences should be error-free, which needs supervision because if you self-analyse your level,then you will compromise it. As long as one has erroneous sentences, 7 band will be quite difficult. Even your article or preposition may be enough to make your sentence error; however, it does not mean those are the only one errors that one needs to focus upon.

---In fact, I have heard many myths of changing the location of exam center or blaming it all on examiners. However, have you ever tried to analyse your own written ess@y instead of blaming a standardized service? Ielts examiners rarely make mistakes except reading your illegible hand writings. Mostly, once the score has been established,it will not change at all. So, your beef is not going to get solved in that way.

What about good or intellectual ideas?

In fact, Ielts writing exam criteria never stipulates the quality ( or qualia) of your ideas,but you need a relevant idea. Therefore, this claim is also nonsensical. Unless one researches the criteria,it is difficult to score in the Ielts tests. However, there may be a few ones achieved due to their natural grammar capacity ( error-free sentences).

Do you think some idioms or phrases will help you in the Ielts exam?

These are all so called "memorized chunks" as it has no relation to the topic, but refers as "padding or fluffing". One should avoid those common pitfalls, and ignore those lessons as it hampers Ielts writing score (strictly formal). If all words are formal and there is no difference in marking, but one should avoid informal words in the ess@ys such as 'get' (use obtain or achieve). Remember, words such as obtain or achieve or any other rare 'high frequency" words have no extra score. The emphasis is upon how accurately the testee used it than simply fitted in a sentence. Hence, do not waste time for memorizing vocabularies, but learn its usages.

Well, I cannot include everything what you need to know for sure. It normally takes 2-3 weeks of study to change a 0.5 to 1 band in writing or reading. However, it only takes 3-7 days for speaking (0.5 to 1.5) regardless of your knowledge. Yes, I have ample of recent evidences for the above mentioned progress.

Ielts 7+ or 8 band needs more sentence structures and accuracy in vocabulary usages. Most of the Ielts 8 band ess@ys do not have 'high frequency' vocabularies as you assumed so far, but accurate usage of vocabularies. For example, 'comprehend' the situation-- here, the accurate verb is understand or analyse the situation instead of 'comprehend'. By and large, IELTS every IELTS (academic or general) students need to learn prescriptive grammar.