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How to use punctuation correctly to increase your IELTS Bandscore

by Andrea Price

How to use punctuation correctly to increase your IELTS Bandscore

In the last couple of weeks, Pass IELTS Higher followers have been asking me to clarify the rules for punctuation in the IELTS writing exam. I've said elsewhere that punctuation is key to achieving good marks in IELTS Writing. This is a good question to ask as you might be losing marks in your grammatical range and accuracy column (GR) for not using your punctuation properly. Be careful - Mobile phone messaging has done away with lots of punctuation rules and sometimes students carry … [Read more...]

IELTS success at passieltshigher.com

by Andrea Price

IELTS success at passieltshigher.com

Do you want IELTS success? In the last two weeks, 8 of our followers have achieved band 7 or more and I cannot express how proud I am of these students. In this article I have chosen to concentrate on women who are very busy looking after their home, their lives, their careers and if married, their family. They organise the food, the housekeeping, the childcare, the nurturing and education of their children and still quite often in the middle of the night when most people are sleeping, … [Read more...]

IELTS Task 1 – Changes in a diagram (Band 7+)

by Andrea Price

IELTS Task 1 – Changes in a diagram (Band 7+)

Today we are looking at the Academic IELTS Task 1 question called Changes in a Diagram. You are all used to the regular Task One questions which cover the various line graphs, bar charts, pie charts and tables but what about the other kinds of Task One? These do not often appear in the IELTS writing exam and for this reason it is wise to be prepared for these when they do show. Two other types of Task One A recent article has covered the IELTS Process writing Task 1 and today’s blog … [Read more...]

How to get Band 7+ in your IELTS Task 1 Process Writing

by Andrea Price

How to get Band 7+ in your IELTS Task 1 Process Writing

It’s time for another IELTS exam and how are you going to approach the IELTS Writing Task 1 if it is a process writing? This article provides some tips and techniques. The answer is that the basic formula and ideas I’ve suggested for the usual task ones, can be recycled in the Process writing if that’s what you get. Don’t Panic! Here is a model process writing and I highlight the approach and expressions you can recycle. The Plan In a process writing, as in the other task ones, you … [Read more...]

Improve your use of the passive voice to help achieve your IELTS Band 7 or 8

by Andrea Price

Improve your use of the passive voice to help achieve your IELTS Band 7 or 8

  Why use the passive voice? In order to get higher marks in the grammar column of your writing task (See IELTS Writing Band Descriptors - 2017), you should try using the passive voice to express your points and ideas. Why is the passive voice hard to use accurately? This tense is quite hard to use accurately, as it doesn’t exist in lots of languages. Passive Voice Explanations Here I will give you explanations of the most used tenses in the passive voice, with phrases you can use, … [Read more...]

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