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IELTS Writing, made simple
Practical guides, band-score breakdowns, vocabulary, and model answers for IELTS Academic and General Training - written to help you score higher, faster.
The 4 Questions Your IELTS Examiner Is Secretly Asking
Your IELTS Task 2 score is not one big mystery. It is four simple questions the examiner is asking about your essay. Once you know them, you know exactly what to fix.
6 Things You Believe About IELTS Writing That Lower Your Score
You study hard and know your grammar, but your band does not move. Often the reason is not your English. It is a few things you believe about IELTS writing that are simply not true.
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About this blog
Most IELTS writing advice tells you what a band 7 answer looks like. It rarely tells you what is costing you the half band you keep losing. These articles start from the mistakes real candidates make - the memorised opening that adds nothing, the overview that describes instead of summarises, the paragraph that changes topic halfway through - and show the before and after, so you can see the difference rather than take our word for it.
Everything here covers both exams. For Academic Task 1 there is a guide for each chart you might be given: line graphs, bar charts, pie charts, tables, process diagrams and maps. For General Training Task 1 the focus is letters and the register each type expects. Task 2 is shared by both exams, so those articles apply whichever one you are sitting. We write in plain English rather than examiner jargon, because the vocabulary of the marking criteria is not what raises your score.
VoyaLang is an AI IELTS writing checker. You submit an essay and it returns per-criterion band scores, a corrected version showing every change, and a rewrite aimed at your target band. These articles are the thinking behind that feedback, written out so they are useful even if you never submit a single essay to us.