What are the vocabulary requirements for IELTS Reading Preparation?

In the IELTS Reading Test, vocabulary only needs to be cognitive, and writing is not required. Even if there are fill-in-the-blank questions, those words are from the original text, so as long as you are careful enough during the test, you don't need to worry about spelling. Therefore, the vocabulary of IELTS reading is familiar with it, and it is enough to know it, and there is no need to memorize it as hard as it is to pronounce and spell it with a pen every day.

We know every word in a sentence, but we just can't understand what the sentence says. The reason is simple, we just remember the meaning of each word individually, and ignore it: sometimes several small words are combined into a new phrase, and it may also extend to a completely different meaning than the meaning of the individual words themselves.

If you don't know the whole meaning of the phrase, it's all in vain. For example, the three small words "rather", "other", and "than" should be known to everyone and to everyone.

But: rather than, what about otherthan? What do you say?

What's the difference? And how many students can clearly distinguish between them? Another example:

anything but， nothing but？ out ofquestion， out of the question？And these phrases are precisely the difficulties and key points that hinder students' comprehension.

The vocabulary of the IELTS test is generally around 8000, and the vocabulary requirements for each part are different. Of course, this vocabulary is not a fixed one, although it is not that the more words you master, the better the test score, but if you do not have enough vocabulary support, then the result may not be so ideal, if you want to better prepare for the exam, then you need to expand your vocabulary.

How to build IELTS vocabulary:

Choose the vocabulary to memorize wisely.

Everyone should carefully memorize basic vocabulary of moderate difficulty. Whether it is for college English, IELTS, or TOEFL, SAT, and other English exams, the vocabulary is very basic, which is like a sentence with 10 words, of which 7 words are basic words, only two professional terms, at this time, if you don't know the basic words, just know the terms, or don't understand what he is talking about, but if you don't know the terms, you can guess by context, so that the understanding of the article is much better.

Memorize more vocabulary from the IELTS test question reading.

This is very easy to understand, mainly because we need to use verbs and adjectives to reasonably analyze the meaning of the article, and sometimes we don't need to know the noun, it is not the key to understanding a sentence.

Select memorized roots and root mnemonics.

Many students have discovered that some words seem long, but in fact, as long as we remember one of the roots, the other words are derivatives of it.

For example, the word disproportionately looks very long and scary at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that it is actually composed of the prefix of dis + proportionate adjective + ly idiomatic adverbial affix, which means that as long as we know the word proportion, we can guess other derivative words.

So there are a lot of roots that you need to memorize. In particular, special roots such as negative affixes and noun affixes are of the highest importance.

Memorize more, do more questions, and watch more.

I saw many classmates say that I had seen this word several times before, and now I forgot it. Everyone must have been in such a situation, right? This is actually the memory number has not yet arrived, and it is almost unforgettable after a few times, which actually comes from the memory curve in our brain.

So, come across a word like this, write it down, read it a few more times and you'll win!

The vocabulary should be more than 6500, the grammar requirements are good, there is no special grammar test, but it is integrated into oral writing.