A significant skill for IELTS candidates is the ability to learn from
their mistakes. Mistakes are inevitable, everyone makes mistakes, if an individual
looks carefully through any doucment or a website can find a few mistakes. Making a
mistake is not really a problem but making the same mistakes over and
over again will be considered to be a big issue. To avoid repetitive commitment of mistakes, it is
necessary to learn what mistakes are made and then learn how to avoid
them.
There are 3 key steps to learn from the most common
mistakes in IELTS Writing Task 1:
- Identify the mistakes that are made.
- Work on solutions for those mistakes .
- Apply the solutions instead of the mistakes and make the performance elequent..
- Identify the mistakes made in your IELTS writing tasks.
It is important that an individuals knows what mistakes oneself makes; especially they need to
identify the most common errors. Not every student makes the
same mistakes so find out what mistakes you make most often. It is
quite common to see a student’s writing task with 20 errors
in grammar. If 10 of those errors are related to using the incorrect tense,
then the student only needs to change one thing that is to concentrate on correct form of tense
and use correct tense in order to reduce their
mistakes by 50%.
The most common errors that are see in students writing for IELTS task 1
are:
Incorrect Tense: If the data shown is from a finished time in the past
then the past simple should be used. Check dates that are shown in the
diagrams.
Poor Spelling: These mistakes are usually careless. Always read your
work and check for spelling errors.
Wrong Word Order: Another careless mistake. A common example of
this would be “sharply increased” instead of “increased sharply”.
Poor Subject Verb Agreement: A very common example is “the bar
chart show” rather than “the bar chart shows”.
Vocabulary Repetition: This is usually because of a lack of vocabulary.
Try to learn synonyms and parallel phrases.
Poor Organization and Paragraphing: Make sure you know the structure
for task 1 and leave spaces between paragraphs.
Incorrect Word Choice or Form: This error may also be because of a
lack of vocabulary or incorrect understanding of vocabulary. Wrong word
form means using a noun when the verb form should be used. You don’t
need to go and spend hours and hours working on each of those areas.
Identify which 2 or 3 of the mistakes above you make most often and
work on them.
Use the solutions instead of the mistakes:
Now comes the difficult part. Now that you know the most common
mistakes in IELTS Writing Task 1 and you know the solutions you need
to do one more thing. You must remember to use the solution instead of
repeating the mistake.This takes time. You need to practice a lot and remain aware of your
most common mistakes in IELTS writing task 1. Over time you will
make fewer mistakes and it will be easier for you to identify and correct
your errors.
After a few weeks or months, you should re-assess your most common
mistakes and you might find that you have some other problem areas to
work on.
Unfortunately, you will always make mistakes. Your aim is not to be
perfect but to make a few errors each time you do an IELTS writing task.
