IELTS General Training Writing Sample Tests
IELTS General Training Writing Sample Tests
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About IELTS General Training Writing
The General Training Writing test is 60 minutes long. It has two writing tasks of 150 words and 250 words.
- In Task 1, candidates are asked to respond to a situation, by writing a letter, for example, requesting information or explaining a situation.
- In Task 2, candidates write an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem.
Note that candidates for the General Training module take a different Writing test to the Academic module.
How is the IELTS Writing test marked?
The IELTS Writing test is marked by qualified IELTS examiners who are intensively trained and monitored to ensure consistency and quality of marking, no matter where in the world the test is taken. A minimum of two examiners will mark your Writing test, and sometimes even up to three or four – we do this to ensure the highest level of accuracy and fairness possible.
Your Writing test response is scored in the areas of ‘task response’, ‘coherence and cohesion’, ‘lexical resource’, and ‘grammatical range and accuracy’. To understand what each of these mean you can view the Writing band descriptors, which have detailed information about each phrase and how they relate to the different band scores that are possible.
Download the IELTS Writing band task 1 descriptors
Download the IELTS Writing band task 2 descriptors
Boost your writing band score with IELTS Writing Assist Online!
IELTS Writing Assist is an official preparation tool from IDP Education for test takers who need to boost their writing by 0.5 – 1 band score.
- Complete practice writing tasks online and receive a personalised feedback report from an IELTS Coach with detailed feedback on your task response, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, grammar and accuracy.
- Receive a detailed action plan with suggestions and resources to improve your written English, including your task response, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, grammar and accuracy, use of articles, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, singular and plural nouns and general English advice.
- Available for IELTS Academic or General Training.
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