First of all, the Writing test is different for Academic and General training Module of IELTS. I am going to talk here about the General training Writing test.
It actually has 2 sub-tasks. First one is to write a letter according to scenario you receive, using about 150 words. The second task is to write an Essay on given topic, present and justify opinion or give solution to a problem, using not less than 250 words.
Nothing to worry here! Once you’ll start using a certain structure which I’ll explain later on for the letter and the essay in addition to your imagination, it is a piece of cake. This task requires a bit of training, but after you write a few essays and letters you will be well-prepared for it and you will feel confident.
Reading consists of 4 text passages and about 40 questions in total. Your job is to read the passages and either answer questions, label diagrams, complete sentences or fill gaps. For every type of task there are instructions and example. Passages are taken from books, newspapers, magazines and the topics are very diverse, from scuba diving to space exploration. Passages progress in difficulty, with first being the easiest and fourth the hardest.
Good news is that you don’t really have to read the whole passage, thanks to technique I will refer to later. Not so good news is that there is no additional time to copy your answers to Answering Sheet and you need to squeeze it in the 60 minutes that you have. Please, don’t forget to do it - I witnessed someone who did, and it was not a pretty sight. Poor guy was crying, he received score 0 for the whole Reading test. Here too you may write in pencil only, no pens are allowed.
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what is complex sentence structure? does it mean that use conjuncture words such as “that,which, who and where” to join sentences together?
Comment by mlin7006 — November 24, 2007 @ 7:26 am
There is a very good explanation of structure of sentences - look here
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/sntstrct.html
Comment by admin — November 27, 2007 @ 5:17 pm