问：上次雅思作文裸考6分。经过一个月的自学刷题，能考几分？道是7？！其实，也可能是5...明明感觉"下笔如有神"为什么考官却不领情？同学们，你写跑题了！

多数考生的写作困难点是不确定自己准备的内容能否得到考官认可。但对于内容而言，最先考虑的应该是不要出现跑题。题目到底怎么审？对症下药最重要！

问题1：题目中出现生词

Nowadays, international tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

Unfortunately,   international   tourism creates tension rather than understanding between people from different cultures.

Do you agree or disagree?

如考生不知道 international tourism ，这道题是没法写的。

雅思写作涉及的词汇量大概有6/7千，而常用单词远不及这个数量。考生万一碰到生词，完全可以通过上下文加以推断。

如：上文中 tension 可能是生词，但如果能想到 rather than 表示对比关系，就可推断tension 和 understanding 形成反义词，那就应该是接近于误解，即紧张关系的意思。

可以看出 conjunction / transition 类别的单词是学习和积累的重点。

问题2：题材不了解

When a country develops its technology, the traditional skills and ways of life die out. It is pointless to try and keep them alive. Do you agree/disagree.

如考生不了解传统技能和生活方式，那就较难找到切入点。

语言材料的积累属于雅思写作长久工作，课中和课后都需花定量时间去吸取。剑桥考试在不同的能力上对语料的要求也不尽相同，譬如输出能力的写作和口语要高于输入能力的阅读于听力。

问题3：没抓住写作中心和重点

There is an increasing number of juvenile delinquents. Give possible causes of this phenomenon and suggest some solutions.

这是经典的青少年犯罪问题 （teens crime) ,如果原因只写一段而建议和解决办法写了数段，那么就犯了忽略重点的错误。因为，没详析原因，就提出建议，缺乏依据。

正确的做法是原因写2-3段，结果写1段。考生可参考以下例文：

Teenage crime is caused by the difficulty those in poverty have in achieving socially valued goals by legitimate means. As those with, for instance, poor educational attainment have difficulty achieving wealth and status by securing well paid employment, they are more likely to use criminal means to obtain these goals.

或用不同的角度来发散和饱满自己的语料：

1. some suggest young people are motivated to commit crimes by delinquent peers, and learn criminal skills from them.

2.  Adolescents with criminal siblings are only more likely to be influenced by their siblings, and also become delinquent, if the sibling is older, of the same sex/ gender, and warm.

总的来说，考生应注意到这道题考的不是泛泛的青少年犯罪的原因和解决方法，而是现在青少年犯罪人数越来越多的原因与建议。考生应仔细审题，防止产生理解上的偏差。