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Coherence and cohesion is worth 25% of your IELTS Writing score. One quarter. And yet most test-takers spend almost all their preparation time on vocabulary and grammar, then wonder why their band score refuses to budge past 6.0. This lesson is here to fix that. Here is the good news: this is one of the […]
Connectors are one of the easiest things to get wrong in IELTS and one of the most satisfying things to get right. Most students use them, but far fewer use them correctly. Slapping furthermore at the start of every second sentence is not sophistication. It is noise. Let’s fix that. What Are Connectors and Why […]
Tense mistakes are sneaky. Unlike a missing article or a misspelled word, a wrong tense can completely change your meaning and sometimes you won’t even know you’ve done it. Your listener might understand you anyway, nod politely, and walk away with the wrong information. That’s a problem. The good news is that most tense errors […]
Getting your register wrong in writing can quietly undermine everything else you do well. You could have perfect grammar, strong vocabulary, and a clear argument and still leave your reader feeling uneasy because the tone feels off. A misplaced casual phrase in a formal report, or stiff textbook language in a friendly email both create […]
Process diagrams trip up more IELTS candidates than almost any other Task 1 type. Not because they are especially hard, but because most people treat them like a flowchart they need to narrate out loud rather than a structured piece of academic writing. There is a difference, and knowing it will push your score up. […]
Most IELTS students spend months practising without ever properly reading the band descriptors. That’s a bit like training for a race without knowing the route. You might finish, but you’ll almost certainly take a few wrong turns. The band descriptors are the official scoring criteria that examiners use. They exist for every skill: Reading, Listening, […]
Most students who score band 5 or 6 in IELTS writing are not making huge, dramatic errors. They are making small, consistent ones. The kind that quietly drag your score down without you even noticing. Fix these, and band 7 becomes genuinely reachable. Here are the mistakes I see most often, along with exactly what […]
Most IELTS candidates lose marks in Task 1 not because their grammar is poor, but because they misunderstand the task entirely. They describe. They list numbers. They translate the graph into sentences. What they forget is the one thing that separates a Band 6 response from a Band 7: the overview. This lesson is about […]
Opinion essays in IELTS Writing Task 2 trip up more candidates than almost any other question type. Not because the ideas are hard. Because most learners never decide what they actually think — and the examiner can tell. This lesson is about one thing: how to state and defend a clear position in a Task […]
Band 6 is a frustrating place to be. You know enough English to get by. You can write a full essay. You probably even know what a thesis statement is. And yet the score stays stuck. Examiners are reading your work and thinking: almost, but not quite. This mini-lesson focuses on the single most common […]
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