common mistakes that kill your band score

That diglot list of common Korean English mistakes? Those are the exact patterns that get penalized in writing task 1 and task 2. Dropping articles, missing plural -s, using "almost" before nouns like "almost students" -- these aren't small slip-ups. They lower coherence and lexical resource scores because the reader has to guess what you mean. Correcting them early keeps them from becoming fossilized errors. Band 8 means zero tolerance for these in formal writing.