What steps should a student take in preparing for tertiary education and what would be the benefit of taking such steps.
University level education is the need of the hour in this age of cut-throat competition to get better employment prospects. To pursue this tertiary education, there are various efforts that a high school student needs to put in in order to excel. In this essay, I would like to look into these efforts prior to college/university studies and the advantages of these efforts.
At the outset, the steps to follow to start an effective university education are considered. Firstly, in this competitive world, high school passed out students have to spend hours in preparing for entrance exam that act...
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Please kindly render some
Please kindly render some tips to improve it to 7.5 band. Kindly state some examples and possible changes in the above essay which gives clear idea for me to improve further..
Don't develop essays like a
Don't develop essays like a technical report, like:
para 1: introduction
para 2: idea one. first, second, third
para 3: idea two or however. first, second, third
para 4: in my opinion...
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We like to have 5 paragraphs and organize better, try this pattern:
paragraph 1: introduction. Your ideas/opinions here.
paragraph 2: Admittedly, there are some advantages of side A. First, ... Second, ...
paragraph 3: However, still I support side B. reason 1 + why reason 1 + example for reason 1 + a small conclusion for reason 1.
paragraph 4: reason 2 + why reason 2 + example for reason 2+ a small conclusion for reason 2.
paragraph 5: conclusion.
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Here goes another flaw:
Sentence Length SD: 5.848 7.5
"Sentence Length SD is low" means that the essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentences varieties wanted.
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Please use 'Please' when you
Please use 'Please' when you convey some information to others.
Your way of expressing thoughts is harsh like in 'Military'.
For example: ''Don't develop essays like a technical report, like:''
As here people from non-US countries are there, they don't expect the same way of speaking like in US.
Most of the students who take IELTS have no time to write 5 paras in 40 mins. Most of the other leading IELTS evaluating sites advise to write 4 paras only. They are pure IELTS correction services.
I guess your way of evaluating an IELTS essay is closely matching with evaluating a TOEFL essay.
No other sites have the criteria to have certain number of 200 different words and 350 words limit. They just advise to write 250-270 words only.
Your way of evaluating and providing band score have a great variation from others. One of the essays which I sent to IELTS BLOG.com got 8.5 band whereas you gave me 6.5 by saying that I don't have more words though I have written minimum 250 words.
Could you provide any strong evidence from official IELTS website that they demand 350 words and 200 different words?
If not, I strongly recommend you that it is high time to re-structure your way of evaluation method.
Thank you and your comments
Thank you and your comments are greatly appreciated. We will ask supports in testbig site careful about their language. They are living in western counties and didn't realize this is a problem.
We know our evaluation system is more tough than other institutes' or some IELTS services, it is due to two reasons:
First, Writing essays in testbig site is for practice purpose. We care more about the improvements and final results in actual IELTS test. So we ask users develop more content and give them higher standards during practice, because we know they are going to have a much harder time in IELTS test room: stress, fatigue, anxiety, tension,... which will greatly decrease their energy and focus on exams. If we let them relax and take it easy in practice, they will hate us later with a bad score.
Second, In IELTS site, minimum 250 words are wanted, but there are no limit on how much users can develop. In testbig site, there is an essay e-analyzer digging essay data daily and find out that 350 words and 200 different words are ideal to judge whether the users really did a good job or not. So we will continue this rule to rate IELTS essays. Actually if typing skills are good enough, 350 words will be not hard in 40 minutes. Our GRE users can type 600 words in 30 minutes.
Once again thank you to use testbig site. If you have any further comments, let us know.
testbig admin
This is not an argument type
This is not an argument type of essay. How could you say to follow your below pattern?
We like to have 5 paragraphs and organize better, try this pattern:
paragraph 1: introduction. Your ideas/opinions here.
paragraph 2: Admittedly, there are some advantages of side A. First, ... Second, ...
paragraph 3: However, still I support side B. reason 1 + why reason 1 + example for reason 1 + a small conclusion for reason 1.
paragraph 4: reason 2 + why reason 2 + example for reason 2+ a small conclusion for reason 2.
paragraph 5: conclusion.
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This is a universal pattern.
This is a universal pattern. The 'steps' can be put in paragraph 2 while the 'benefit' can be put in paragraph 3 and paragraph 4.
testbig support #7
I lived in UK, which is a
I lived in UK, which is a western country too. They always speak carefully when making some conversations.
Thank you!
Thank you to remind us. We
Thank you to remind us. We have put notice to our support guys.
testbig admin
Actually if typing skills are
Actually if typing skills are good enough, 350 words will be not hard in 40 minutes. Our GRE users can type 600 words in 30 minutes.
Every IELTS prospective guy must have to practice essay in white paper with pencil. If they practice typing in computer with 350 words, they can't write the similar number of words in exam since they have to erase and modify physically.
This is the ultimate method of practicing IELTS. 99% of IELTS tutors advice this.
We judge essays by following
We judge essays by following attributes:
No. of Grammatical Errors:
No. of Spelling Errors:
No. of Sentences:
No. of Words:
No. of Characters:
No. of Different Words:
Fourth Root of Number of Words:
Average Word Length:
Word Length SD:
No. of Words greater than 5 chars:
No. of Words greater than 6 chars:
No. of Words greater than 7 chars:
No. of Words greater than 8 chars:
Use of Passive Voice (%):
Avg. Sentence Length:
Sentence Length SD:
Use of Discourse Markers (%):
Sentence-Text Coherence:
Sentence-Para Coherence:
Sentence-Sentence Coherence:
'No. of Words' is one of them. Most users only want 6.5 or 7.0, so around 275 words are enough. When users want marks over 7.0, we will pay more attention to No. of Words and No. of Different Words.
There is a real story by a testbig user who got 8.0 with our suggestions:
http://www.testbig.com/ielts-essays/some-people-prefer-spend-their-live…
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Writing on paper will take more time compared to typing on computer. But it is easier to figure out flaws when practicing on computer. Both methods will help. From users' feedback, it is very necessary to practice writing on papers a few days before the exams.
testbig support #7
Dear admin, Sorry to bother
Dear admin,
Sorry to bother you. I have seen that after my request above, you are providing more band scores for my essays and letters. My friends who are paid members here also say so.
Please I kindly ask you to provide me the exact score as per your policy.
I apologise if I am wrong.
Thank you! Keep up your great service!
The first reason is that you
The first reason is that you try to please 'essay e-rater' and put more content. In the view of of 'essay e-rater' which is a computer rating system, more content will mean more marks.
The second reason is that we track the history performance. After we see you can develop good essays with marks 7.5 or 8.0 in task I, a relatively more credit is given to task II .
Overall, your performance in task I is: 7.0 - 7.5 while in task II: 7.5-8.0 if you developed the essays in 20/40 minutes. If you developed those essays (with more content)over 20/40 minutes, then the marks are not real.
testbig support #5
in which they interested in.
in which they are interested in.
Sentence: In addition, their career path would be so brightful with no deviation in the middle, hence, this facilitates them to settle in life in a very short time span.
Error: brightful Suggestion: No alternate word
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 301 350
No. of Characters: 1573 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.165 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.226 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.825 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 114 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.067 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.848 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.304 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.528 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5