IELTS Aid (Practice Essays)

In the last part, the examiner will ask you for more in-depth questions about your topic in part 2. It is important that you know how to ask for clarification since the questions can be quite challenging to answer. Below are some helpful expressions: ·         Do you mean….? ·         Are you asking…? ·         Could you please explain what the question means? ·         Sorry, can I just clarify what you mean? ·         If I understand you correctly, you’re asking…? Remember, asking questions to the examiner is only possible in parts 1 and 3. Don’t worry about your score when asking for repetition. You are assessed according to 4 criteria - fluency and coherence, lexical resources, grammatical range and accuracy and pronunciation, understanding, and comprehension of the question are not included. These...

I have been receiving and reading comments about some of the essays I posted on my blog. Some were about what I need to change in my outputs, while some are negative comments about them. Well, to be honest, I always appreciate whatever people think about my work. Whether they like it or not will depend on them. I apologize if my blog's name misleads other fellow IELTS learners into thinking that my essays and posts are "perfect" or the "best". Although it is mentioned on the home page that these posts are only practice writings that I did when I was learning to write academic essays before sitting for the exam roughly 2 years ago. As I recall, I couldn't find sample essays of sample tests that I used at that time. And because of this, I decided to make this blog and post my writings so that those who are also practicing and trying to answer the same writing tasks can have at least a resource of how other people might interpret these graphs and problems. ...