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Grammatical range and accuracy

December 24, 2013 By Nestor 3 Comments

According to the IELTS Speaking test scoring criteria, 25% of your score is based on ‘grammatical range and accuracy’. This refers to number of different grammatical structures that you can use in your speaking, and how frequently you make mistakes. In this post, I’m going to share another nice video by the British Council which explains this criteria and includes some tips on how to improve your grammar.

What is grammatical range and accuracy?

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Filed Under: General tips, IELTS Speaking Tips Tagged With: Grammar tips, IELTS scoring criteria

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  1. premt says

    December 26, 2013 at 6:04 am

    Video not on grammatical range and accuracy!

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    • Nestor says

      December 26, 2013 at 11:22 am

      Thanks for pointing this out. The video is corrected.

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      • Uchiha says

        July 17, 2015 at 12:23 pm

        You write so holnstey about this. Thanks for sharing!

        Reply

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