Ielts speaking Tips 9 Steps To a High Score in Your Speaking Test

You pause and hesitate a lot.

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  Your voice is monotone with little variation in your intonation.
  

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  You focus too much on grammatical accurately at the expense of fluency.
  

Don’t be worried about your errors as they are part of the learning process. Recognise them and use them to improve.

 

Tip 7: Practise Identifying Grammatical Structures

Using the correct tense is obviously an important aspect of grammatical accuracy. However, it’s very common for candidates to use the wrong tense when answering questions despite it being a pretty basic error.

The result is that they don’t actually answer the question. This sort of mistake occurs all too frequently in the Speaking test and it’s one of the main reasons why people score poorly for grammar. This makes Tip 7 one of the most important IELTS Speaking tips.

There’s a simple way to avoid this problem. Identify the tense the examiner uses in their question and use the same one in your answer.

Let me show you what I mean with a poor answer and a good one.