How to use
IELTS Labs to improve.
Three guided paths from your first essay to a higher band. Each one tells you what IELTS Labs can do, what it cannot, and the single next step worth taking.
How to improve your writing band
Start with a timed writing task so your practice feels closer to the real IELTS exam. IELTS Labs gives you a focused writing space with no autocorrect for spelling or grammar, so you practise under more realistic conditions.
After you submit your essay, IELTS Labs highlights grammar, spelling, and style issues with short explanations. Treat this as a study session, not a verdict — use the feedback to understand your weak areas and rewrite step by step.
When you are satisfied with your revised version, you can request an AI-generated band estimate across the main IELTS Writing criteria: task response, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy. Focus first on your weakest area, rewrite, and try again.
The single most useful habit:
- Write one timed task end-to-end before reading any feedback.
- Submit. Read the issues. Rewrite the weakest paragraph only.
- Request a band estimate on the rewrite to see if the change moved the score.
How to improve your spelling
IELTS Labs detects spelling mistakes from your own writing and helps you practise the words you personally struggle with. Instead of memorising random word lists, you build practice from real mistakes you made under timed conditions — the ones most likely to recur on exam day.
After each essay, review the spelling errors flagged in your feedback, add the important ones to My Weak Words, then drill them in Spelling Training. If you would rather start with curated content, IELTS Labs ships a free list of commonly misspelled IELTS-relevant words you can practise immediately.
While practising, you can save any difficult word straight from the session — it lands in My Weak Words automatically and stays there until you choose to remove it.
Open Spelling TrainingBuilding your Weak Words list
My Weak Words is your personal vocabulary list, built from the mistakes you actually make. There are three ways to add to it:
- From essay feedback: tap Add to My Weak Words next to any flagged spelling or vocabulary issue.
- From a Spelling Training session: save any word you got wrong or want to revisit.
- Manually: open the My Weak Words page and add any word you want to practise later.
Once a word is in your list, IELTS Labs tracks how often you get it right and surfaces the ones you keep missing. The goal is a list that shrinks as you improve — not a wall of vocabulary you never revisit.
Open My Weak WordsHow the AI band score works
Once you have written and revised an essay, IELTS Labs can estimate a band score across the four official IELTS Writing criteria: task response, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy. The estimate is an AI-generated reference point, useful for tracking progress between drafts — not a substitute for a certified examiner.
Use it as a signal, not a verdict. If your rewrite improves the lexical-resource score but not task-response, that's where to focus the next attempt. If two consecutive rewrites show no movement, the issue is usually structural — try outlining the whole response before writing again.
Band estimates are generated on demand and use a small number of credits. The pricing page explains how those credits work and the limits on the free tier.
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