Firstly, allow me to remind you that a lot of grammar study will not improve your score.
It takes most students a year to improve their grammar score, in Speaking and/or Writing, by a whole band point.
Doing worksheets, completing online quizzes, going through a grammar book from front to back, focusing on tiny grammatical intricacies- these are all huge wastes of time.
Now, having given that warning, I will tell you where it is useful to focus on grammar on your IELTS Exam!
- Grammar Score for IELTS Listening and Reading
- If you are doing sentence or summary completion, the grammar of your answer must be correct. If it is not, the answer will be wrong.
- When checking your answers for grammatical accuracy, focus on subject/verb agreement, singular/plural nouns, and verb tense.
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- Grammar Score for IELTS Writing
- For both tasks, you can still have quite a few mistakes and still get a 6 for Grammar. As long as your mistakes do not make the examiner confused, these mistakes are OK for this score.
- However, in order to get a 6 or higher, you do need to exhibit a mix of sentence structures– simple, compound and complex.
- The most useful structures to review and practice are conditionals and relative clauses.
- Regarding IELTS Academic Task 1, there are certain structures you can practice connected to the function of the graph, such as comparatives/superlatives for Static diagrams.
- Grammar Score for IELTS Speaking
- As mentioned above, you can still have many mistakes, but you must include a variety of sentence structures.
- It takes most students even longer to improve the grammar score in Speaking, because you don’t have time to think. So, focus on improving the other scores!
It is a much more effective use of your time to focus on improving your vocabulary range, pronunciation, and knowledge of linking words and transition phrases.
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