English is being difficult on purpose
"I have two informations for you." In most languages that sentence is perfectly normal. In English the word simply refuses to take an s, and there is no rule you can work out from meaning, because you can obviously have two pieces of information. It is just how the word behaves. The good news is that the list is short, these words repeat in almost every IELTS topic, and once you learn them the error disappears for good.
The list: these never take an s
5 fixes you will use in every essay
3 words that go the other way
Why this small thing is worth learning properly
Look at the list again and notice where those words live: education, technology, work, city life, the environment. Those are exactly the topics IELTS keeps setting. So this is not one mistake that happens once. It is one habit that repeats five or six times on a single page, and each repeat counts against your accuracy. Ten minutes on this list is one of the best trades in the whole exam.
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See how often you actually do it
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