- Fluency and coherence
- Lexical resource
- Grammatical range and accuracy
- Pronunciation
- The examiner must agree with my opinion
- Some testing centres are easier than others
- Some examiners are more generous than others
- I can learn some tricks to ‘cheat’ the exam
- I should just study IELTS to get a high score
- I should learn lots of big words and insert them into my writing test
- I can’t ask the examiner in the Speaking test to repeat the question
- I need to have a British or American accent to do well in the Speaking test
- It is better to have a wide range of grammatical structures than be error free
