IELTS score remark
Feb 22nd 2012, 9:06 am
#46
Crazy Cat Lady
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Re: IELTS remarking
You are trying to move to an English speaking country and are about to sit IELTS again. Why would you not try to practice your English? It will only help you.
I don't get why anyone would write in their "second best" English because it is only a forum. It doesn't save time.
I don't get why anyone would write in their "second best" English because it is only a forum. It doesn't save time.
Feb 22nd 2012, 6:11 pm
#47
Forum Regular
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Location: Adelaide
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Re: IELTS score remark
Living in the US for about 10 years now and I have learnt that there is no correlation between speaking and writing. Lots of Americans who speak English very well have terrible writing skills (I used to wonder how can you speak correctly and write with such poor grammar?). I have seen this at all levels at my work place. Just my 2 cents. Contrary to Americans, Indians have the opposite problem, we write pretty well but don't speak as well. But I don't believe that the difference in score will be that much anyways. You can for sure try to do a remark. I did my test here in the US and got 8.0 in the speaking, so if you can speak well they will mark you high. Remember that this test was designed to test people from non English speaking background.
Feb 22nd 2012, 7:23 pm
#48
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Posts: 14,284
Re: IELTS score remark
Living in the US for about 10 years now and I have learnt that there is no correlation between speaking and writing. Lots of Americans who speak English very well have terrible writing skills (I used to wonder how can you speak correctly and write with such poor grammar?). I have seen this at all levels at my work place. Just my 2 cents. Contrary to Americans, Indians have the opposite problem, we write pretty well but don't speak as well. But I don't believe that the difference in score will be that much anyways. You can for sure try to do a remark. I did my test here in the US and got 8.0 in the speaking, so if you can speak well they will mark you high. Remember that this test was designed to test people from non English speaking background.
I did mention grammatical errors, but I also mentioned the general flow of the writing and it was more the syntax than the grammar that seemed flawed and to me, this would explain the IELTS results.
Feb 23rd 2012, 5:03 pm
#49
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Re: IELTS score remark
No correlation between speaking and writing? *No* correlation? I seriously doubt that.
I did mention grammatical errors, but I also mentioned the general flow of the writing and it was more the syntax than the grammar that seemed flawed and to me, this would explain the IELTS results.
I did mention grammatical errors, but I also mentioned the general flow of the writing and it was more the syntax than the grammar that seemed flawed and to me, this would explain the IELTS results.
