IELTS TEST - BASIC HINTS

BEFORE THE TEST 

CHOOSE A REALISTIC AND ACHIEVABLE GOAL 

To obtain a satisfactory IELTS Band Score, it is necessary to be realistic. If the goal is to reach a

certain level of English proficiency, success can only be achieved with much practice. It is important

to know what an IELTS score in any of the Sub-tests means before you set yourself a goal. An outline

of the Overall Band Scale levels is given below:

Writing for IELTS, session 3

Noun clause

A clause which comes instead a noun.

It can be replaced with (something or somebody)

Noun and noun clause places:

1-Subject

2-Object of verb

3-Object of preposition

4- Subjective complement

Example:

Writing for IELTS, session 2

Structures:

Who:

Noun (human) + [who + finite verb].

Example:

Mr. Brown who came yesterday like to see you again.

Who: connector/ subject, Came: transitive verb

Whom:

Noun (human) + [whom + subject + finite verb]

Example:

Writing for IELTS, session1

Word: a meaningful combination of letters.

Phrase: a meaningful combination of words.

Clause: a meaningful combination of words + subject + verb.

Clause:

1- Independent (meaningful by itself)

2- Dependent (needs another independent clause to be complete.)

Dependent clauses:

1- noun clauses

2- adjective clauses

3- adverbial clauses