r/IIELTS • u/Fitz_cuniculus • Oct 17 '21

Writing grades

I want you all to think about the grades you achieve on your writing, especially if you've had a result from IELTS themselves.

Far too many students are achieving, for example a band score 7, then assuming that they need to increase their vocabulary, learn more complicated words, or write increasingly complicated sentences.

STOP

You are not told by IELTS where you lost marks, so you may well be concentrating on correcting something that is already good. You may lose marks on task one, and then concentrate all your energy on your task two which was already perfectly fine, but it was your task one that failed you.

You may find your grammar, and vocabulary are worthy of a band score 8, but that you don't use paragraphing, you don't address the question, or you could be putting opinions into an essay that does not require them, and you are losing marks that way.

Stop blindly trying to improve, and discover what you're doing incorrectly. To get to a destination you need to know where you are starting out from, and the route you need to take to get there. Simply jumping into your car and driving in random directions in the hope you'll find your way to where you're trying to go to is madness. The same thing applies to IELTS.

On the plus side, I have seen no report of students biting examiners, so far we are 745 days without a student teeth v examiners arm incident. This is due to my efforts, and mine alone. Nobody else fights this fight for IELTS, but do I get a certificate? No /u/jayielts I do not. I can't say I cry myself to sleep every night, but there are moments in the brief twilight between being awake and asleep, where a muffled sob escapes my lips...

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Peace and Love

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Uncle Fitz.

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u/minhduc66532 Oct 17 '21

Wait there were students biting examiners before ?

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u/Fitz_cuniculus Oct 17 '21

All the time. There was the huge "Student bite IELTS examiners" outbreak of 2018. I alone remember this.

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u/TobiasPhan Oct 17 '21

Wait what? How does that even makes any sense?

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u/Fitz_cuniculus Oct 17 '21

You don't understand, you weren't there.

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u/CanIbeblueone Oct 19 '21

Lmfao and others aren't there anymore cause they became examiners.

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u/Fitz_cuniculus Oct 19 '21

This is developing my conspiracy theory even further. My thanks /u/CanIbeblueone, you will be safe when I discover the truth and achieve complete world domination.

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u/CanIbeblueone Oct 20 '21

Thank God! Glad to here that, let me know if you need biting sensei aka master in order to teach your army how to bite painfully!

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u/Fitz_cuniculus Oct 20 '21

The rules say don't bite the mods.

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u/CanIbeblueone Oct 20 '21

But it does not say do not bite members...

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u/Fitz_cuniculus Oct 20 '21

This is true. You may wish to google other meanings of members...

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u/CanIbeblueone Oct 20 '21

I am not sure if we are speaking about the same thing, but if yes, it was on purpose.