IELTS-Blog

First, let me tell you this: it is a fact that having your essays checked and graded before the IELTS exam improves your Band score.

Second: to get the most of this service there are 5 simple rules you need to follow. They will help you to improve your writing skills reliably and efficiently.

Those rules are:

1. Before you write

Please make sure you read these useful articles:

IELTS essay explained

Academic IELTS, Writing Task 1 (report) explained

Academic IELTS, tips for writing good reports

IELTS Writing test, tips from examiner

IELTS General Training - essay writing tips

IELTS General Training - letter writing tips

Collection of IELTS essays, letters and reports

2. Format
Submit your IELTS tasks as Word files attached to email, send them to info@ielts-blog.com. Avoid rejected tasks - please don’t send essays in the body of email or jpeg files with scanned essays.

3. Topics
If you have “Ace the IELTS” or “Target Band 7″ books – use the topics from the Writing practice section. If you don’t have those self-study books, please submit one essay on the following topic: “Today a lot of different cultures and ethnic groups live together in one country. Why is this so and do you think this is a positive or negative development?”

4. Time
It takes our IELTS teacher 2 - 3 working days to check your essay – please be patient, the answer will be sent to your email.

5. Submit one by one
Please send your IELTS essays/letters/reports one-by-one. Wait and get teacher’s comments on your first task, read them and follow his advice when you are writing the second one. This will help you to actually improve in writing instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Good luck with your IELTS preparation!

We can’t have too many free tasks samples, can we ? IELTS official site recently released some more free practice material.

They have added some Academic and General training reading passage and tasks, Academic and General Training writing tasks and one Speaking card for the 2-minute monologue. Too bad there are no correct answers given for the reading questions (and some listening samples would be nice to have too)!

So those of you who haven’t seen the free samples yet can find them here:

Academic Reading Sample

Academic Writing Sample

General Training Reading Sample

General Training Writing Sample

Speaking Card Sample

And we will do our best to publish the correct answers soon – so stay tuned!