Why do Students Get a 5.5 on IELTS Writing? HD

Today I’ll show you why students get a 5.5 on the Writing section of the IELTS exam, and how you can avoid it happening to you! Go to allearsenglish.com/keys to get the 3 Keys IELTS system for every IELTS Exam. Congratulations to 3 Keys IELTS student Bruno, who got an Overall 8 on the exam! You can hear his story and excellent advice on the IELTS energy podcast - episode 831. Check it out at http://allearsenglish.com/episodes/ielts One of our IELTS energy YouTube channel listeners asked why students get a 5.5 on IELTS Writing instead of a 6. Most likely, it’s because that student is focusing too much on grammar and vocabulary. A language teacher who is not familiar with the IELTS exam is going to focus on grammar and vocabulary. If you focus on these 2 scoring sections, you are at risk of getting a 5 on Writing. This is because it can take over a year to improve your grammar enough to raise your grammar score on the Writing exam one band point. Almost everyone gets a 6 for grammar because even if you make a lot of mistakes, as long as the Examiner can understand what you mean, you can still get that 6. But for a 7, you have to make very few errors and that is extremely difficult! Most of you don’t have that year to spend! There are 2 scoring sections that you do have time to improve, and these are the scoring sections that a non-IELTS professional can’t really help you with. Those are the Task score and Cohesion/Coherence score. For the Task score, if you don’t completely address everything in the Task, you can get a 5 on that scoring section. For Cohesion/Coherence, if you don’t use transitions, or your transition phrases have errors, you can get a 5 for that scoring section. With those two 5’s and 6’s in Vocabulary and Grammar, you get that 5.5. The good news is that these 2 scoring sections - Task and Cohesion/Coherence can be improved very quickly if you know what to do! You need template sentences and high level transitions to practice. Here at all ears english we are IELTS experts! In our 3 Keys system we teach you exactly what you need to do to get high scores on the Task and Cohesion/Coherence sections. If you want to follow in Bruno’s footsteps and get that score you need on the IELTS exam, go to http://allearsenglish.com/keys and join our study system! And if you liked this video, subscribe, share it and leave a comment!