When preparing for IELTS,
Academic or General Training is wise to consider if you want to experience what
you will encounter during the test. Exposing yourself to real writing
experience could make you experience the feel of it.
Let us see how the
Writing task is constructed:
General Training Version – IELTS
GT module should be completed in one hour. There are two tasks in which the
candidate has to write 150 to 250 words each.
·
In Task 1, you will be asked to write a letter. You
will be given a situation together with the details that need to be included in
the letter that you are going to write. In some cases the candidates will only
have to complete the letter by filling the blanks with words (which you will be
chosen from a word pool) or prepositions. (It doesn’t mean that this setup is
easier than writing a complete letter).
·
In Task 2 you will be composing an essay about a
certain topic. (This also goes for the Task 2 of Academic Version and is
discussed in details below.
Academic Version – the duration of the academic writing task version
is also 60 minutes. The candidate also needs to complete two writing tasks.
·
In Writing Task 1 you will be handed with a particular
graph (it can be a bar, pie or line graph), a chart or a table or process. This
task is to extract information with you have been given and interpret it using
at least 150 words. The task tests your ability to discern the main features
and report it. Your ability describe and compare data will also be assessed.
·
The EILTS Writing Task 2 requires not less than
250 words. The candidate needs to formulate and develop a position relative to
a given prompt, which could be a statement or a question. The candidates’ ideas
must be backed up by evidences and/or examples which may come from his or her
experience. In this task, the candidate decides whether to agree or disagree
completely with the given statement. He may also choose to partly agree or
disagree with it or express no definite opinion.
The candidate may choose
one of the following approaches:
1. Express your position
in the beginning of the essay and then provide your justification with your
agreements. You can do this especially if you have a strong feeling about the
statement.
2. Have the arguments in
the introduction and then express your thoughts in the conclusion. This is
suitable if you have a weak opinion about the statement but able to provide
arguments on either side.
More or less this is how the
Writing Task of IELTS looks like. You can check some online IELTS
learning samples of writing tasks or IELTS books to learn
more.
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