Common vocabulary issues in IELTS writing.
Updated: March 1st 2022.
When I mark IELTS essays I often find that the same words keep coming up in the writing, such as ‘a lot of’ / ‘humans’ / ‘nowadays’ / ‘like’
In fact, these are not wrong and using these in your sentences would not be considered grammatically incorrect. However, the IELTS examiner is checking to see if you can use a wide range of vocabulary. If possible, try to avoid overusing these words to help with a better vocabulary score… See the post below.
Paraphrasing percentages and statistics in IELTS academic writing task 1.