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SELF-STUDY IELTS CHECKLIST

Writing#..............

Development

Have I written the minimum number of words necessary?

Have I introduced the question and my overview in the
introduction briefly?

Have I written a topic sentence and supporting details, i.e.
examples, for each central paragraph?

Have I written a summary of major points together with my
position in the conclusion?

Do my sentences and ideas follow each other clearly and
logically?

Vocabulary

Have I changed my words of writing, in particular the words of
question?

Have I spelled all my vocabulary correctly?

Have I written some academic vocabulary?

Have I used some collocations?

Have I written some vocabulary related to the topic
of the question?

Structure

Have I written my verbs in right tense?

Are there run-on sentences or too many long sentences?

Have I used the right punctuation?

Have I used “the”, ”a” ,and “an” before my nouns, in particular
countable nouns?

Do my sentences have the subject – verb agreement?

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