Quizzes, exams, and flashcards about Academic Writing: Academic Writing 1 — a data set and an essay, Academic Writing 2 — proportions and an opinion essay.
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Full Writing papers — Task 1 and Task 2 — printed, answered by hand, photographed and checked task by task against the criteria an examiner uses.
Two tasks in 60 minutes, and they are not worth the same.
Task 2 counts for twice as much as Task 1. The most expensive mistake in the whole paper is polishing Task 1 for half an hour and then writing 180 rushed words on the thing worth double. Do Task 2 first if that is what it takes.
Notes and bullet points score nothing — both tasks must be continuous prose. Writing about something other than what you were asked is penalised however well it is written.
Four criteria, equally weighted:
The check you get back here is built on those four, with one more in front of them: length. Under the minimum is a penalty on the real paper, and it is the easiest of all five to avoid.
The check names what is missing rather than issuing a band score. A band is a judgement a trained examiner makes against descriptors held to a common standard; what is genuinely useful before the test is a list of what your answer did not do, and that is what comes back.
You print the paper, write on it, photograph the pages and upload them. On a paper-based test that is exactly the task. On the computer-delivered test you will type on the day — the composition is identical, and writing longhand is still the fair way to find out what 20 and 40 minutes actually feel like, and how much of a page 250 words is in your own handwriting.
Task 2 needs more room than the ruled lines allow. Continue on the back of the sheet or on one plain sheet and photograph that too — the upload accepts one page more than the paper has.
Every task here is written by Zestly. No IELTS material is reproduced.
