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IELTS - Writing - For Band 7 or Above.

Aamara

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Nov 27, 2019
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Guys,
I would like to share my experience with you all in the hope it helps someone.

I took my IELTS on 16th December 2017 for the first time ever and my scores were a decent LRWS 8, 8, 7.5, 7. When I came out of the exam hall, I knew Speaking test didn't go well and I was mentally prepared to take a retest after checking my results. I remember telling myself that I'm a better speaker than my scores and I'll do better in my next attempt. Imagine my relief in getting to CLB9 in my first attempt! That said, I'll put in a few tips that might be helpful as regards to Writing.

1. Firstly, practice. Not for knowing WHAT to write (at first), but HOW much to write. Trust me, you'll have little to no time to count during the exam to check if you've met the word limit or not, so get a hang of the number of words Vis a Vis length of your essay/letter. You lose 0.5 band for not keeping to the word limit, so don't lose it there!

2. Secondly, plan your answer. Take 5 minutes max before you start your essay/letter and just think and roughly jot down 3-4 points. Pick two best ones and simply follow this format between your introduction and conclusion paragraphs. The basic idea is to let your key points flow smoothly:

Para 1, Line 1 - Firstly,...(your idea here)...
Para 1, Line 2 - (explain you think it's good/relevant)
Para 1, Line 3 - Therefore/Hence... (Repeat your idea, but rephrase it slightly differently )


Para 2, Line 1 - Also/Moreover/Secondly,...(your idea here)...
Para 2, Line 2 - (explain you think it's good/relevant)
Para 2, Line 3 - Therefore/Hence... (Repeat your idea, but rephrase it slightly differently )


3. It's a Complete Myth that you need to weave complicated sentences with high level vocabulary to get a good writing score. Simple sentences, showing good use of sentence joining structures such as because, although, moreover, while, however is more than sufficient to score Band 7. So practice writing such sentences together. One example would be:

Instead of writing this:

I arrived at the school very early on Monday morning. The school gates were closed on the account of a holiday that i was not informed about.

You could write:

I arrived at the school very early on Monday morning, but/however, the school gates were closed on the account of a holiday that I was not informed about.

Hope you get the idea now.

4. Spellings: i cannot stress enough about the importance of spelling. Do not use words that are too long or complicated to remember. It's completely okay to write another less complicated but equally effective word. Do not use high level words to impress examiners if you do not know how to use them. ROOKIE MISTAKE . It's perfectly ok to write: One of the repercussions (penalties) of not following safety guidelines is a personal safety audit.

I've tried to outline points that you may not find in the guides. Sorry for the extremely long post. Do reach out to me if you have any questions.
Hi
I want to know do you give ielts classes?
 

Milan Desai

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Dear @cansha, please evaluate my essay. I am planning to reappear in December.

Question: some teachers and parents feel that controlling child behavior is good. Others feel that they should not be controlled. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Different schools of thought exist among people when it comes to controlling children’s behavior. While some believe that there should be strict control from mentors and guardians in children’s upbringing, while others are more lenient on the control. However, I partially agree with the notion that children need to be control but not in a strict way that they feel they miss their freedom.

On the one hand, many people think that it is very important for parents and teachers to taught a certain set of rules to children so that they are aware of what is good and what will be bad for them. Children do not have enough awareness to decide about the right and wrong and which rules will help them and which rule if not followed will get them in trouble. Thus, strict rules of behavior create responsible and respectful children who in turn mature into responsible adults. This forms a respectful society which is virtually free from negative trends such as drug abuse and prostitution.

On the other hand, there are others who think that forcing children to follow strict rules of behaviors does not always yield positive result as discussed above, most of the time it backfired and worked against society and families. For instance, teenagers are most likely to do the opposite of what they are told to do simply because they want to be independent. Children should also have rights to exercise their free will and developed their own patterns of behaviors. Therefore, imposing a strict rules may simply destroy the individuality of children.

To conclude, in my opinion, it is clear that children should be guided by rules and regulations, but these rules should not be imposed on them because as human beings, they need to have room to develops their own traits of character and adopt a behavioral pattern of their own.
 

Vyn

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Aug 15, 2019
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Kindly evaluate..thanks a ton
Question: some teachers and parents feel that controlling child behavior is good. Others feel that they should not be controlled. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Most of the educators and parents believes that the most efficient way in managing behaviours of the children were to limit their freedom. However, some have contrast views about confining and restricting children. In my perspective, I am agreeable to some to allow the children express themselves freely.

First and foremost, having restrictions would result for the children to increase the probability of them to display inappropriate behaviours and aggressions. Children may feel disheartened and withdrawn when they are not given a chance to explore or to make decision for themselves. It is advised by the health professionals to let the children be children, and that a child learns most through playing. Therefore, if parents would restrict and refrain the child, it will result in a reduce play skills and interactions with other peers. Furthermore, it will also affects the children's ability to display their emotions properly. Some may inappropriately express their emotions by hitting, screaming, and biting because of the lack emotional attachment with the adults. The child's aggression easily escalates when frustrated.

In contract, the children if given an opportunity to be part of the system and be involved in daily activities planning, it helps increases the chance of them to display positive behaviours and are more receptive in completing tasks. Children's social emotional skills were higher and majority listens to adult's instructions and complies better without adult's pressure. There were even studies conducted that children were more likely to progress and reach different milestones when they have chances or opportunities. Therefore, it is benefiting the children more when adults treat them equally and respect their individuality and rights.

To recapitulate, some agrees that children benefits most if they were controlled but others totally disagree. In my view, every child has the right to express themselves the same way as the adults. There are other ways to develop and nurture the character of the children. One of it is to implement house or school rules and explain consequences when not followed. Collaboration with between parents and educators on other positive discipline is an effective approach too.
 
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sreelakshmi s

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Nov 30, 2019
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im a doctor by profession My IELTS (General training) first attempt is: W R S L: 6.5,6,6,7.5 Overall: 6.5 . will i be eligible to immigrate to canada and opt any other job temporarily till i get the license from mcc to practice there? i have heard its good to score 7 7 7 8 for doctors... but is it mandatory in case of immigration...?will i be rejected due to this low ielts score alone? whats the minimum ielts score required to immigrate?please reply
 

nthalork

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Aug 23, 2019
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In many countries around the world, life expectancy is increasing.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this situation and give your own opinion.


Owing to advancement in the field of medical sciences and health awareness, the population, in general, lives longer than in the past. In this essay, I will discuss both the advantages and disadvantages of this. Overall, I believe the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

One problem with longevity is the strain it puts on medical facilities due to the high proportion of the ageing population. For example, recent research by the University of London has revealed that there has been a considerable rise in the number of hospital visits by the senior citizens in developed countries due to age-related problems. This increases the pressure on the care facilities, which are already facing a crunch of manpower and resources. Another drawback of an increased life span can be a reduction in new jobs as fewer people will retire due to higher retirement age. For instance, In my country retirement age has been increased from 60 to 65 and as a result, twenty percent fewer jobs are advertised.

The main advantage of a longer life is that these people will be able to enjoy their post-retirement life. This is because people tend to work hard until the retirement age to fulfill self and family's material needs and retirement is the time that they can spend and enjoy with other members. For example, a survey by a British journal has revealed that post-retirement is the happiest time of a person's life after childhood. Furthermore, society can be benefited from their experience because they have host of accumulated experience and knowledge, which can be used for the betterment of individuals as well as society. For example, a doctor, who has many decades of experience treating people, often has more specialist knowledge of the diseases and cures and can guide juniors on this.

Overall, weighing up both sides of the argument, I would say that although increased age does have some downsides, particularly strain on healthcare, the fact that society can gain enormously from their experience outweigh the disadvantages.
 

SR_T

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im a doctor by profession My IELTS (General training) first attempt is: W R S L: 6.5,6,6,7.5 Overall: 6.5 . will i be eligible to immigrate to canada and opt any other job temporarily till i get the license from mcc to practice there? i have heard its good to score 7 7 7 8 for doctors... but is it mandatory in case of immigration...?will i be rejected due to this low ielts score alone? whats the minimum ielts score required to immigrate?please reply
You are eligible for express entry with this IELTS score. However, whether you will get ITA or not depends on your CRS score. One way to boost your CRS score is to secure an IELTS score of LRWS 8777 if you are a FSW out land applicant. Please check your CRS score using this link:
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp
 

yoloraw

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Feb 28, 2017
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It is often believed that researching and treating diseases is too expensive so it is wise to invest in preventative measures. I strongly disagree that only investing in preventative measures is optimal. However, it will be beneficial to spend money in research to save money for expensive treatments, and overcoming serious global healthcare issues where a specific disease is spread on the larger scale. I really can't grasp the purpose and meaning of this sentence here.

Here, first I disagree with the statement and then just wrote my points why I disagree. (I agree this might be confusing because of wrong word choice or incorrect English structure.
Check this:

It is often believed that researching and treating diseases is too expensive so it is wise to invest in preventative measures. I strongly disagree that only investing in preventative measures is optimal, however, it will be more beneficial to spend money in research to save money for expensive treatments, and to control serious global wide-spreading diseases.

(This following paragraph related to 'save money')
To begin with, thoroughly investigating diseases is more likely to save money and time while treating chronic diseases where treatment costs are generally higher. In other words, cost of treating any disease depends upon available medicines and procedures. However, if there is no treatment available there will be higher medical bills for people because of multiple treatments in the wrong direction. Nowadays, for instance, people who are suffering from HIVs have proper access to extensive range of cheap medicines which, on the other hand, was impossible if people had not invested in research.

Another reason of spending money in research and treating diseases is to excel well in the medical field. Where finding a cure means an advancement in healthcare. Therefore, we are fixing our common health related issues. For instance, people all over the world have successfully reduced the cases of Polio and Malaria. Due to these severe diseases number of people had got killed in the last few decades. Only because of researching the in-depth root cause of these issues opens up new opportunities to reduce or completely vanish these problems. Hence, this money invested for a good cause will surely be beneficial on the longer run. Did we research in preventing polio or treating polio? Do you know polio can't be treated once someone gets impacted by it? All the research in polio went in to "preventing" it by vaccination. And now you have killed your whole essay and argument by picking a wrong example.
I agree, this whole paragraph was related to prevention. I think I was trying to say it saves serious global healthcare issues by research. But example and flow dragged me into wrong direction.

Finally, at any point, diseases can spread widely among people, leaving many of them sick. In such scenarios, it is impossible to take care of each and every one. However, if we have a treatment for that specific disease. It is easier to overcome such global issues without further wasting money in the wrong treatment. For example, in the past, Dengue had been widely spread in the North India due to rainy season, but only because doctors had injections to boost the immunity, and ways to increase platelets count, they managed to save thousands of lives with ease and economically.
OK now you are supporting "prevention" Didn't you say you "strongly" disagree. The C&C and task response are big issues.

Agree :|


In conclusion, benefits earned by spending money in research and treating chronic diseases immensely advantageous for the people and society as a whole.
Single line conclusions are dangerous and unless you are an advanced writer avoid that.
Noted, thanks

Your task response is confusing (atleast to me). And a bad task response means an automatic less than 7 score.


- Need to work hard, I am just over-complicating things.
- Need to plan better.
- Need to understand question deeply and correctly.
- There is no need to rush.
- Control flow and structure of paragraphs, and sentences.

Thank you very much!!
 
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Mr. Khan

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Oct 22, 2019
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I got my test result, and I'm very much disappointed with it.
L-8, R-6.5, W-5.5, S-6.5 and overall - 6.5

This was the second time I took the IELTS test, and my earlier score was
L-7, R-6, W-5.5, S-7, overall-6.5

I'm so broken now, I don't know what should I do. I really don't know where I am going wrong in writing. I don't want to take the test for the 3rd time. Please help with, is there any alternative? I really can't make through it. Please help.
Hi dear, disappointment would not solve your problem. I got 6 overall, two times, it doesn't mean that you will never achieve your target band.just give some more time. I am also having uncertainty about myself because I never checked my writing by someone else, also my speaking is full of mistakes. Just do little more efforts. Thanks good luck
 

yoloraw

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Feb 28, 2017
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@cansha

Some people think that uniform at school is unnecessary and should be banned.
To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion and examples from your own experience.
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[INTRO]
It is often considered by some that uniform on school premises is useless and must be restricted. However, in my opinion, uniform brings about more positive outcomes and immensely beneficial in the overall development of the children.

[BP1]
To begin with, a uniform itself means uniformity among children, who are studying in the same school. Although teachers always taught students about the equality of all humans at schools, uniforms play an important role in order to maintain the equal identity of everyone at schools. These positive factors will eventually ends the differences among children about caste, and family status. Apparently, these statuses are the major factors which contributes to hate and unfair means of thinking in the tender minds of the children. For instance, those children who belongs to a famous celebrity or a strong politician are more likely to stay away from poor children, however, this situation is controlled when they have same clothing at schools. Hence, uniform plays a vital role in order to establish uniform thinking in between students.

[BP2]
Another evident reason of mandatory uniform at schools is to educate children about discipline. Nowadays, it is often observed that fashionable clothing, attractive jewelry, and expensive ornaments most of the time considered major distractions for school going individuals. Once children get influenced by such materialistic things, they will more likely to end up wasting time and money instead of concentrating in their corresponding syllabus. Therefore, uniforms are highly indispensable at schools in order to guide children to incorporate discipline in their lives. Furthermore, after learning about discipline children' personalities eventually excel well in the right direction towards success and learning.

[Con]
In conclusion, uniforms at schools not only provide positive environment but also create positive thinking among children without any discrimination. Therefore, uniforms should be made compulsory in each school because of the numerous advantages it brings to children and the society.
 

yoloraw

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Feb 28, 2017
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Lets do self evaluation: :) lol

Red= useless lines/ not required/ wrong word choice.
Green= corrections/ comments.

@cansha

Some people think that uniform at school is unnecessary and should be banned.
To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion and examples from your own experience.
================================================================================================
[INTRO]
It is often considered by some that uniform on school premises is useless and must be restricted. However, in my opinion, uniform brings about more positive outcomes, and immensely beneficial in the overall development of the children.

[BP1]
To begin with, a uniform itself means uniformity among children, who are studying in the same school. Although teachers always taught students about the equality of all humans at schools, uniforms play an important role in order to maintain the equal identity of everyone at schools. These positive factors will eventually ends the differences among children about caste, and family status. Apparently, these statuses are the major factors which contributes to hate and unfair means of thinking in the tender minds of the children. For instance, those children who belongs to a famous celebrity or a strong politician are more likely to stay away from poor children, however, this situation is controlled when they have same clothing at schools. Hence, uniform plays a vital role in order to establish uniform thinking in between students.

[BP2]
Another evident reason of mandatory uniform at schools is to educate children about discipline. Nowadays, it is often observed that fashionable clothing, attractive jewelry, and expensive ornaments most of the time considered major distractions for school going individuals. Once children get influenced by such materialistic things, they will more likely to end up wasting time and money instead of concentrating in their corresponding syllabus. Therefore, uniforms are highly indispensable at schools in order to guide children to incorporate discipline in their lives. Furthermore, after learning about discipline children' personalities eventually excel well in the right direction towards success and learning.

[Con]
In conclusion, uniforms at schools not only provide positive environment but also create positive thinking among children without any discrimination. Therefore, uniforms should be made compulsory in each school because of the numerous advantages it brings to children and the society.
[Corrections]

[INTRO- Correction]
It is often considered by some that uniform on school premises is useless and must be prohibited. In my opinion, I disagree that uniforms doesn't play any role. However, uniforms can create positive environment for every children, and to educate them about discipline.

[BP1- Correction]
To begin with, the word 'uniform' itself means uniformity, or in other words equality. Therefore, at schools uniform depicts equal status of everyone regardless of their family status, caste or religion. If these factors doesn't contribute hate and unfair thinking, this will eventually establish happier environment on school campuses. Majority of the students, for instance, unable to guess other students' background when they all are coming to school in similar clothing. Furthermore, when this type of environment is there in school buildings, pupil can excel well in studies rather than wasting their precious time in unnecessary differences.

[BP2- Correction]

Another evident benefit of mandatory uniform at schools is to educate children about discipline. Nowadays, it is often observed that fashionable clothing, attractive jewelry, and expensive ornaments are considered major distractions for school going individuals. Once children get influenced by such materialistic things, they will more likely to become undisciplined. This will hamper their grades and behavior, not only in schools but also at their homes. In order to motivate them about disciplined lifestyle - uniforms can play a vital role. For example, when children have to wear formal cloths everyday, they tend to perform regular duties such as ironing of cloths, polishing shoes, and be punctual. These activities motivate children to be disciplined, more responsible and independent.

[Conc- Correction]
In conclusion, uniforms at schools not only provide positive environment but also create positive thinking among children, to incorporate education without any discrimination. Therefore, uniforms should be made compulsory in schools because of the numerous advantages it brings to children and the society

[Comments]:
- Earlier it was totally in multiple directions.
- Sentence meanings were either incomplete or misleading.
- Syntax is fine (I guess)
- Now I can read it in one go. (If anyone wants to give suggestions, please share)
- Not sure why I am still complicating things. :|
 
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nthalork

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Aug 23, 2019
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The most important consideration when choosing any career or job is having a high income.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is true that deciding a job or a career in one of the most important decisions of anyone's life. It is believed that higher remuneration is the most significant factor in deciding a career, while I agree that salary is one of the crucial factors, it is not always the main consideration.

To begin with, it is a fact that money is one of the most important factors in deciding a profession as this can be used to purchase products and services, which can make one happy. For instance, if you have the money you can a beautiful home, or a car, or a holiday trip, or all of them. Furthermore, this is even more important at a time when money is given more importance than anything else in society. This can be exemplified by the fact that people, who are rich are often given more importance in society than more educated and distinguished members of the society.

Nevertheless, factors other than money, such as the nature of the job, the interest of the applicant, also play an equally important role. For instance, a highly qualified person from an upper middle class would prefer to do an office job than to work as miners even if the pay is considerably higher. Similarly, doctors or a musicians likely to work in their respective areas of interest rather than doing highly paid jobs, such as that of a investment banker or a stock broker. (high paid->interest) This is because they enjoy working in occupations or fields, which they like, otherwise they may become stressed and unsatisfied. Therefore, it is not always the case that first preference is always given to money in deciding an occupation.

In conclusion, a career decision in generally made considering a number of factors not just the salary. Despite the fact the money can help fetch many things which many bring joy, it is not always the decisive factor as other aspects, such as type of job and field of interest, also play a significant role.