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Because IELTS sometimes asks even familiar question types in deliberately tricky ways. IELTS may, for example, provide a statement expressed in positive language as a true-or-false question when the answer in the Listening or Reading exercise appears in negative terms that have the same meaning as the positive words in the question. IELTS also may ask questions that require candidates to combine information from different places to arrive at the correct answer. In the Listening test, IELTS sometimes asks questions at the end of a section that require candidates to have been keeping track throughout the exercise; so, if the candidate has not read the question first Brian McCann Jersey , he or she may not be prepared to answer.
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Because IELTS penalizes candidates as much as whole band point for not answering questions as asked. For example Dansby Swanson Jersey , if the Writing Task 2 question asks a candidate his or her opinion on a topic and the candidate writes about the various opinions pro and con with respect to that topic, there will be a penalty of an entire band point no matter how well the candidate writes.
There is no substitute for good, solid English skills. They are what IELTS measures. But without an in-depth introduction to the many things that are either specific to the IELTS test or the particular ways IELTS expects common tasks to be performed, it is unlikely that a candidate will earn the highest possible score.
Svend Nelson is a university lecturer and internet entrepreneur. He is director of UniRoute Limited, a Hong Kong based company with offices in Bangkok and London providing IELTS Online Preparation and other web-based courses for university preparation. Svend lived and worked in various countries across Latin America Freddie Freeman Jersey , Europe and Asia before settling with his wife in Thailand.
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