Stupid Mistakes (Composition)
- Misinterpretation
- Tenses
- Poor planning
- Too long or short; usually too long leading to repetition, loss of interest, increase in errors
- Use of correcting fluid (This is banned from exams as the vaporisation of chemicals causes brain retardation!!!)
- Your creative invention of new English words ie worriness, gratitudeness, enjoyful!!!!
- Starting your sentences with "And" and "But"
- Spelling mistakes - insure you spel corectly!!!
- SMS text
- Bad handwriting
- Learning prepared essays, phrases, vocabulary by hard
- Fitting old essays into current topic - out of topic
Note :
For narratives, "the liveliest and most successful accounts were those based on a scenario within the candidates' experience,many of which had a convincing ring of truth!" - quote from Examiners' Report on EL 2006
Be sincere; be yourself; write in your own style