Improve IELTS Writing- Tips and Tricks

IELTS writing plays an important role in increasing the overall band score during the real test. And, Writing Tips helps you to understand the given figure and questions so you can answer them properly.

Here are some of the tips and tricks for IELTS writing which helps you to gain a higher score in real test examinations.

Understand the concept of the question

At first, try to understand what the question is asking you to write.

Plan on what and how to write

After that, plan the points how and what to write.

For Task 1, if there is a pie-chart, bar graph, or line graph think accordingly and first, manage key points on the question papers (you won’t get an extra sheet for planning). To achieve a good grade, you’ll need more than 150 words.

Plan what you’re going to write in Task 2, and include at least two body paragraphs, an introduction paragraph, and a conclusion paragraph in this part, all of which should be no less than 250 words.

Manage time

Time Management is what most of the students lack while writing an IELTS exam. A total of one hour has been set aside for writing, with a minimum of 400 words to be written in that time.

For Task 1, students have to separate a maximum of 20 minutes to describe the given diagram or chart. For Task 2, students need 40 minutes. First 2-3 minutes, students can think of what and how to describe the question and in the last 2-3 minutes they can check their grammatical errors and mistakes. So, basically in 35 minutes you can and should complete Task 2 and check for mistakes.

Grammar and Vocabulary

1. Use Simple Present Tense:
2. Write Active Voice
3. Avoid Redundancy/ Unnecessary Words- Don’t use unnecessary words to elaborate the sentence, it won’t be suitable.
4. Write Positive Form (Avoid ‘Not’)- Always write in positive form and low use of negative form i.e. not.
5. Avoid Repetition
6. Avoid writing Is, Was, Are, Were- For e.g., instead of “Kathmandu is beautiful” write Kathmandu attracts many people every year.
7. Use fewer common words like i.e. Take, Make, Give, Do, Get, etc.- For e.g., “Sword takes people to battlefields eventually” – replace takes with leads
8. More use of Phrasal Verbs – like ‘put up’, ‘get along’ etc.
9. It’s not ‘what’ but ‘how’ you write.
10. Use varieties of sentences and incorporate parallel structure.
11. Use idioms and proverbs IF you can.