Writing
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What will you write?
Task 1 Academic
20 minutes · at least 150 wordsDescribe a chart, table, diagram or map in your own words. Marked on Task Achievement and the same three language criteria.
18 in the bank: 4 bar charts, 4 tables, 3 pie charts, 3 process diagrams, 2 line graphs, 2 maps.
Task 2 essay
40 minutes · at least 250 wordsAn essay giving your view on a general topic. Marked on Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy.
69 questions in the bank: 33 opinion, 16 discussion, 9 two-part question, 6 advantages and disadvantages, 4 problem and solution.
Sitting General Training? Your Task 1 is a letter, not a chart. 18 letters in the bank.
Practice or exam conditions
By AI, usually under a minute. Every error marked in the essay, a band for each criterion, and the task band with the arithmetic shown. A practice estimate, not an official result.
Tested against essays marked by IELTS examiners, which the scorer had never seen: 73% of Task 2 scores and 80% of Task 1 scores land within half a band of the examiner’s mark. The full figures
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