✏️ IELTS Academic Writing
Writing
60 minutes in total. Task 1 is worth one third of the Writing score; Task 2 is worth two thirds. The four assessment criteria are Task Achievement, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range & Accuracy.
Each active route includes original practice, an explained answer or an annotated model to study before writing a complete response.
Official format versus WeLearn strategy
Official format: IELTS Academic Writing has two tasks: Task 1 describes visual information in at least 150 words, and Task 2 answers an essay question in at least 250 words.
WeLearn strategy: practice is organised into transfer routes: rubric, Task 1 visuals, Task 2 question families, original prompts and annotated models.
Rubric
Checklist · criteria · diagnosis
A guided self-review for Task 1 and Task 2: criteria, evidence, organisation, vocabulary and grammar.
Task 1
20 min · 150+ palabras
Describe visual data: graphs, tables, process diagrams and maps. Seven sub-skills.
Task 2
40 min · 250+ palabras
Argumentative essay: opinion, discussion, problem and solution, and advantages and disadvantages.