IELTS Guides

Choose past simple, present simple, present perfect or future forms correctly when describing charts, tables and projections in Writing Task 1.

Build accurate complex sentences with subordinate clauses, participle clauses and fronted adverbials to widen your grammatical range.

A practical decision procedure for a, an, the and no article, including the generic plural rule that costs candidates the most marks.

Find the real subject and match the verb, including the traps of long noun phrases, uncountable nouns and quantifier expressions.

Zero, first, second and third conditionals, plus mixed forms, for Task 2 argument and Speaking Part 3 speculation.

Defining and non-defining relative clauses, comma rules, which versus that, and using which to comment on a whole clause.

When the passive is the right choice in Task 1 process diagrams and academic argument, and when it just makes writing vague.

The prepositions that IELTS actually tests: rise of versus rise to, increase in, at, on, in for time, and verbs that take no preposition.

Why natural word partnerships raise Lexical Resource more than rare vocabulary, and how to avoid thesaurus errors.

Accurate comparison structures for charts and arguments, including twice as many, the same as, and the degree adverbs that qualify them.

Comma splices, fronted adverbials, semicolons, apostrophes and the however trap: the punctuation errors examiners actually mark.

Why over-using linking words lowers Coherence and Cohesion, and how referencing, substitution and topic sentences do the work instead.