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Plain-English explanations of how IELTS Writing is actually scored, where the easy marks live, and the habits that move your band the fastest.
How is your IELTS Writing band score calculated?
A clear walk-through of the four IELTS Writing criteria — task response, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range — and how examiners turn them into a band score.
Read articleHow spelling and vocabulary affect your IELTS Writing band
Where spelling fits in the IELTS rubric, how examiners weigh it against vocabulary range, and a practical plan to fix the words you keep getting wrong.
Read articleCommon IELTS Writing mistakes (and how to avoid them)
The mistakes IELTS Writing candidates make most often — misreading the task, weak topic sentences, lexical repetition, run-on sentences — and how to fix each one before exam day.
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