Ielts writing Task 1 + 2

MOST COMMON MISTAKES STUDENTS
MAKE IN TASK 1 WRITING
1. Adverb vs adjective
A slight increase/decrease. (NOT a 
slightly
increase/decrease).
2. Copy the summary
This just means you do not paraphrase the summary enough. That’s a big
problem. Be sure you 
paraphrase the summary as much as you can
.
3. Misusing words or phrases.
You might say: Sales 
levelled off 
and then decreased 
(it’s wrong, because we
always use 
“levelled off” after another trend.
)
So, levelled off is misused in this case.
Or, you might say: sales 
reduced
. 
(We 
don’t 
use “reduced” this way)
Instead we say sales decreased/declined
4. Question mark
No question mark in task 1 writing
. This means either a confusing word, a
phrase, may be a sentence or may be a whole paragraph. The examiner will
not know what you are talking about. The grammar is so stuffed that they
cannot understand what you are trying to say, and they cannot easily fix your
grammar.
So what are you going to do with this kind of sentence?
First, don’t try to fix the mistakes that you have. Don’t look at back your
grammar over and over again. Instead, look at what you are saying and ask
yourself what you were trying to say. You wrote it, so you know what you
are trying to describe, then look at back the task 1 language, words, and
phrases I gave you above, and start writing that sentence, or whole paragraph
over. Don’t try to fix what you have, take what you have and throw away and
put something new in there.
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5. Wrong verb tense use.
Pay your attention to the verb tense.
6. Don’t use figures in your introduction and overview (no need to give
numbers in your main point)