Many Bangladeshi candidates have strong ideas and still score below their target. The reason is usually a small set of repeated English errors, most of them rooted in how Bangla and English differ. These are patterns, not a lack of intelligence. Fix these ten and your accuracy score rises.
1. Articles (a, an, the)
Bangla has no articles, so they get dropped or misused. “I went to university to meet teacher” should be “I went to the university to meet a teacher.” Learn the rule for general versus specific, then check every noun.
2. Subject-verb agreement
“The number of students are rising” should be “is rising.” The verb agrees with the real subject (number), not the nearest noun.
3. Prepositions
“Discuss about the problem” and “married with” are common slips. It is “discuss the problem” and “married to.” Prepositions rarely translate directly, so learn them as fixed pairs.
4. Tense consistency
Switching between past and present in the same paragraph signals weak control. Choose the tense the question needs and hold it.
5. Run-on sentences
Bangla tolerates long chained clauses. English does not. When a sentence runs past about 25 words, it usually needs a full stop, not another comma.
6. Uncountable nouns
“Informations,” “advices,” and “researches” are not plural in English. They are uncountable: “information,” “advice,” “research.”
7. Overusing memorised big words
A decorative word in the wrong place costs more than a plain word in the right one. Examiners reward precision, not vocabulary that sounds borrowed.
8. British spelling, used consistently
Pick British spelling and stay with it: colour, organise, programme, centre. Mixing British and American spelling looks careless.
9. Repetition instead of paraphrase
Repeating the question’s exact words, or the same word every line, lowers your lexical score. Learn two or three ways to say your key terms.
10. Not answering the exact question
The most expensive mistake of all. Writing around the topic, or answering only half a two-part question, caps your Task Response no matter how clean the English is.
The fast way to fix yours
You do not have all ten. You have two or three, repeated. A linguist can spot your specific pattern in a single essay and tell you exactly what to drill. At Writers Kernel we do precisely that: mark your writing, name your recurring errors, and give you the shortlist that will move your band.
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