HOW WORDS ARE COUNTED IN IELTS LISTENING, READING AND WRITING
HOW WORDS ARE COUNTED IN IELTS LISTENING, READING AND WRITING Word count plays a very important role in IELTS. Be it listening, writing or reading. While answering questions there is a word limit that needs to be taken care of and an exceeding or less word limit might lead to you losing marks. But, the bigger question is how are the words counted in IELTS. Do we even count the prepositions or only the big meaning words are counted. Today, let us figure out how words are counted in IELTS. 1. Numbers, dates and time are counted as words. So, for example, 20-November-2012 was a day. The statement consist of 4 words. 2. Dates written with both numbers and words are counted differently. For example, 20 November will be counted as one word and one number. 3. Everything written inside a bracket is also counted. For example, in the given sentence – There are only 10 people present(ou...