Check your IELTS Task 2 essay against all four criteria.
Paste an essay and get a band for Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource and Grammatical Range and Accuracy, every correction labeled with the kind of mistake it was, and a rewrite aimed at the band you are going for.
One descriptor sheet, two exams.
This is the part most candidates get wrong, and it is worth getting right early. IELTS publishes a single set of Task 2 band descriptors. One sheet, covering Academic and General Training together. Your essay is measured against the same standard whichever exam you sit.
So a General Training candidate does not get an easier Task 2, and an Academic candidate is not marked more harshly. If you have been told otherwise, it is a difference the marking criteria do not contain.
What genuinely differs is the kind of essay each exam tends to ask for, and therefore what a strong answer looks like:
- Academic Task 2 Questions lean toward the impersonal - policy, technology, education, the environment. The strongest support tends to be a specific named case rather than something that happened to you.
- General Training Task 2 Questions lean toward everyday life and personal opinion. Here, drawing on your own experience is not a weakness. It is often the most convincing evidence available to you, and it is expected.
VoyaLang marks your essay as the exam you picked, so a General Training essay is not quietly held to the Academic habit of reaching for a named study. The standard it is measured against does not change, because the published one does not change.
Task 2 is the one task where you can bring the question.
Most people come with a particular question already in mind: the one their teacher set, the one from the book they are working through, or the one they answered badly in a mock test and want to try again properly. On Task 2 you can paste it and work on that exact question, which is what makes the practice count.
The library is there for the days you do not have one. Academic Task 1 has no equivalent, so if you want to choose your own material, this is the task to do it on.
Not a number. A list of things to fix.
An overall band tells you where you are. It does not tell you what to do on Monday morning. So every criterion comes back with its own band and the wording behind it, and every change to your text is labeled with the kind of mistake it was: article, preposition, verb tense, word choice, subject-verb agreement, and so on.
That labeling is the part that changes scores. One misused article is a typo. The same label appearing eleven times across an essay is a habit, and a habit is the thing you can actually train away before the exam. You get a rewrite as well, aimed at your target band, so you can see what the same argument sounds like when it is expressed at the level you are working toward.