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Understanding the assessment criteria

Understanding the way that Academic Writing Task 2 is assessed can help you achieve a better result and focus your studies. T he following table shows the type of assessment criteria used for marking writing, plus some skills that may help you to achieve a GOOD score in Task 2, along with the relevant units focusing on those skills. Further information on IELTS assessment is available in a public version on www.ielts.org.

Task Response Coherence and Cohesion Lexical Resource Grammatical Range and Accuracy
For a GOOD band score you need to:
address all parts of the task

show your opinion

clearly through the essay

extend your main ideas with support

 organise your essay well

use suitable linking words

make sure each paragraph has one main idea

have accurate

use of academic

vocabulary, including less common words
have good control of spelling and word form

 use a good variety of complex sentence structures accurately most of the time

have very few punctuation problems
To achieve these, you should:
analyse the task and use brainstorm techniques (see Units 2 and 3)

plan your essay (see Unit 4)

 organise your essay using introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion (see Unit 5)

use linking words/ phrases, especially at the beginning of each paragraph and to join sentences with a common idea (see Unit 5)

start each body paragraph with a topic sentence and follow it with supporting ideas (see Unit 5)

 include academic vocabulary throughout your essay (see Unit 6)

check your spelling (see Unit 6)

 have accurate use of grammar (see Unit 7)

use a variety of sentence structures (see Unit 7)

check your punctuation (see Unit 7)

The following units are designed to help you improve your result in each of the above assessment criteria.
- Timing - Number of words

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