IELTS Practice (Grammar & Vocabulary) Exam Cram Sheet (2026)

The highest-yield points on the IELTS Practice (Grammar & Vocabulary)exam, grouped by the exam's real content areas. Print it, review the ones you keep missing, then drill them with free practice questions.

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5content areas

Grammar & Tenses

22% of the exam

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Present Perfect and Past Simple
Continuous and Perfect Forms
Conditionals

Vocabulary & Collocations

22% of the exam

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Verb + Noun Collocations
Precise Word Choice
Common Descriptive Collocations

Articles & Prepositions

20% of the exam

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Definite and Indefinite Articles
Dependent Prepositions
Prepositions with Places

Sentence Transformation

18% of the exam

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Reported Speech
The Passive Voice
Comparatives and 'Enough'

Common Errors

18% of the exam

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Agreement with Tricky Subjects
Prepositions of Time
Verb Patterns

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