Three types of spelling mistake to look for in your IELTS Writing

As you probably know, the frequency of spelling mistakes in your IELTS Writing will affect your writing band score, and so it’s a good idea to check your writing for spelling mistakes at the end of the writing test.

To help you find spelling mistakes in your IELTS Writing, here are three common types of IELTS spelling mistake that you should look for.

IELTS spelling mistake 1: words that are often misspelt in IELTS Writing

According to the Cambridge Learner Corpus, the 11 most common spelling mistakes in band score 6.0 and above are… Read the full post »

The first step to improving your writing for IELTS

To improve your writing for IELTS, it’s important to know which aspect of your writing you need to improve. If you know, for example, that you make a lot of grammar mistakes when you write, you’ll know that you need to make fewer mistakes to improve your writing for IELTS.

For some ideas about what you may need to improve, check out the video below to see two candidates (Clementina and Karthik) talking about what they need (or needed) to do to improve their IELTS writing.

(If you can’t view the video above, try viewing it directly on our YouTube channel). Read the full post »

What you should include in an IELTS Writing Task 2 conclusion

Following on from my post last week about how to write an introduction, I’d like to show you what information you should include in an IELTS Writing Task 2 conclusion, i.e. the last paragraph of an IELTS essay. (For those of you new to IELTS, in IELTS Writing Task 2 you have to write an essay of 250 words or more on a particular topic).

In general, your IELTS Writing Task 2 conclusion should include:

• a summary of the main ideas in your essay

If you have enough time left in your test, your conclusion could also include: Read the full post »

What you should include in an IELTS Writing Task 2 introduction

In this post, I’d like to show you what information you should include in an IELTS Writing Task 2 introduction, i.e. the first paragraph of an IELTS essay. (For those of you new to IELTS, in IELTS Writing Task 2 you have to write an essay of 250 words or more on a particular topic).

In general, your IELTS Writing Task 2 introduction should include:

1. an introduction to the essay topic and why it’s important
2. an indication of how your essay will continue

Depending on the type of IELTS essay question and on your style of writing, your introduction could also include: Read the full post »