IELTS Writing Tips

1. 'Stretching' your sentences makes them harder to read, less easy to grasp your point, and can also have a bad impact on your grammar. If you don't really know how to use the words you are using, the quality of your sentences will decl5. 'Stretching' your sentences makes them harder to read, less easy to grasp your point, and can also have a bad impact on your grammar. If you don't really know how to use the words you are using, the quality of your sentences will decline, as will your score. ine, as will your score.

2. Try to join sentence using words like 'although'. Long sentences (correctly written with correct grammar) have a tendency to flow better and engage the reader.

3.However, don't show off. See the IELTS Test as a test of what you can do, not a test of what you know. Some students see the writing test as a opportunity to show an assessor that they know long and complicated words, without fully understanding their meaning, and know complicated grammar structures, without really understanding how the grammar works. Do this and your score WILL go down. Do you best, but never try to go beyond what you can do - it just won't work!

4.In Task 1 your job is to put numerical information or some form of illustration into written form. The first paragraph should say what the information is. After that, think of the task in this way: write in a way that someone who can't see the table, graph, illustration, etc. would be able to draw the important points of what you are looking at.

5.In Task 2, you are often asked to give an opinion, or solve a problem in some way. Your opinion with 'support' (evidence your opinion is valid) is useless. Always give as many examples as you can that support your view.

6.Before you start writing, plan what you are going to write (but only for a maximum of 4-5 minutes).
Always write these notes in an abbreviated form (short notes); don't waste time writing sentences. It will save your time.

7.Although you can use your own experience to answer a question, never do so to the extent that you change the question. For example, you might get a question:
"Traffic problems are the chief source of global pollution. Suggest a possible solution to this problem."