how to pass the ielts writing module
© IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 2 Learn From The Examiner How to Pass the IELTS Writing Module April )ELTSBlogcom All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without prior permission of the author Making copies of any part of this book for any purpose other than your own personal use is a violation of )nternational Copyright Laws Limits of Liability Disclaimer of Warranty The author and publisher of this book and the accompanying materials have used their best efforts in preparing this program The author and publisher make no representation or warranties with respect to accuracy applicability fitness or completeness of this program They disclaim any warranties expressed or implied merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose The author and the publisher shall in no event be held liable for any loss or other damages including but not limited to special incidental consequential or other damages As always advice of competent professionals should be sought This manual contains material protected under )nternational Copyright Laws and Treaties Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 3 Table of Contents )ntroduction Academic Task of the )ELTS Writing Module Explained General Training Task of the )ELTS Writing Module Explained Task of the )ELTS Writing Module Explained The most common mistakes made by )ELTS candidates and how to avoid them © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 4 1. Introduction This book is designed to help )ELTS candidates raise their )ELTS writing scores by an entire band enabling them to get the mark they require for their future life This document has been put together by a former )ELTS Writing Examiner who has experience of marking many thousands of )ELTS writing tests and has been thereby able to identify the simple errors which the majority of candidates make again and again After finishing reading this book you will be in a strong position to prepare yourself to succeed in the )ELTS Writing exam Of course if you combine the knowledge and wisdom inside this book with completing an online Writing course at )ELTSBlogcom you will greatly increase the effectiveness of this book in helping to raise your band score and will be almost certain to raise your overall band score for the )ELTS writing module )t is important to note that all materials in this book are not original )ELTS materials and have been separately produced for )ELTSBlogcom © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 5 2. How to Answer Part 1 of the Academic Writing Module Part of the )ELTS writing module is an easily passed part of the test if you follow the answering system explained below Although the data presented in the questions for part are always different they all follow a very similar pattern and so long as you actually read the question and the information provided it should be easy to provide an impressive higher band score answer Tip 1 )t is important to remember that you only have hour for the writing test so you must make sure that you do not spend more than minutes completing part as it is only worth of the marks available for the writing Tip 2 You will lose marks if you do not write the minimum number of words required for each answer The words counted do not include any words of the question title and are Task words To be safe you should do at least words Task Words To be safe you should do at least words Writing Task 1 )n the academic module Task is always a presentation of data on a specific topic This is presented in the form of a graph or a diagram Whatever the data is the question format is always the same So to answer part question effectively and gain maximum possible marks on achieving the task requirements you should make sure that you do the following in your answer Academic Task Requirements )ntroduce the subject Explain the main features with data Show trends with data Make a conclusion © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 6 To show how this works in practise we will use an example of a task style question Example Question 1 The bar chart below shows the number of students in three different courses from )dentify the main trends and summarize the data )ntroduce the subject The bar chart shows students attending three different courses over four years from to Explanation The main topic and reference points are introduced without copying question title So the words will count towards the final word count for task © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 7 Explain the main features with data )n million students took course A )n million people attended course A Moving onto the year million people took course A Finally in the number of students taking course A had increased to million students )n million students took course B )n million people attended course B Moving onto the year million people took course B Finally in the number of students taking course B had decreased to million students )n million students took course C )n million people attended course C Moving onto the year million people took course C Finally in the numbers of students taking course A had increased to million students Explanation All the data is presented clearly and without copying the task question so allowing all the words to count towards the final word count (owever to make the answer read more effectively and so increase the band score we need to change some of the language and the phrases used For example Explain the main features with data )n million students took course A )n million people attended course A Moving onto the year million people took course A Finally in the number of students taking course A had increased to million students Moving onto Course B, in 2001, 2.4 million students took the course )n million people attended course B )n million people took course B By the number of students taking course B had decreased to million students Taking a look at the course C we can see that in million students took the course )n million people attended course C )n the year million people took course C By the number of students taking course A had increased to million students Explanation As there are different words used and the sentence order changes the writing becomes easier to read © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 8 Explanation The key aim of explaining the overall over the four years change in numbers for each of the categories is included here avoiding repeating the same sentence forms Make a conclusion )n conclusion then one can say that over the four year period from to there has been an increase in overall numbers of students attending all three courses Explanation The aim of the conclusion is to explain one key trend identified from all the different data trends So putting all the different parts together we can see what would get an )ELTS band score answer of for this question Example question 2. The bar chart below shows the number of students in three different courses from 2001-2004. Identify the main trends and summarize the data. Show trends with the data )f we analyze the data we can see several trends emerging Firstly the number of candidates taking course A has stayed almost the same over the four years despite declining in The number of candidates taking course B has gradually declined over the four years from million in to million in (owever the number of candidates taking course has grown from million to million over the four years Number of Students Attending Three Courses From 2001-2004 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 2001 2002 2003 2004 Years Students in Millions Course A Course B Course C © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 9 So why would the above answer get an )ELTS Band score Because of the following All the requirements of the task are achieved There are no spelling or grammatical errors The answer is over the minimum word count and the answer can be followed effortlessly A wide range of grammar and vocabulary is used )t is important to note that only an answer with practically no errors can get an )ELTS band Sample Answer 1 (Band Score 8). The bar chart shows students attending three different courses over four years from to )n million students took course A )n million people attended course A Moving onto the year million people took course A Finally in the number of students taking course A had increased to million students Moving onto Course B in million students took the course )n million people attended course B )n million people took course B By the number of students taking course B had decreased to million students Taking a look at the course C we can see that in million students took the course )n million people attended course C )n the year million people took course C By the number of students taking course A had increased to million students )f we analyze the data we can see several trends emerging Firstly the number of candidates taking course A has stayed almost the same over the four years despite declining in The number of candidates taking course B has gradually declined over the four years from million in to million in (owever the number of candidates taking course C has grown from million to million over the four years )n conclusion then one can say that over the four year period from to there has been an increase in overall numbers of students attending all three courses Word count © IELTS-Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www.ielts-blog.com 10 For it to become a the writing would have to show an improvement in the style and evidence that the essay writer could use the most advanced grammatical structures and vocabulary And there would have to be no errors in the answer The answer above uses grammar and vocabulary appropriate for answering the question An example of a band answer would be the following Sample Answer 2 (Band Score 9). The bar chart featured in Task shows students attending three different courses over a four year time span from to First of all lets take a look at the data provided in the bar chart over the duration of the four year period )n million students had presumably enrolled onto course A )n this figure had increased by nearly percent to million The numbers continued to increase so that by million people were at that time taking the course A Finally in the number of students taking course A had increased by another whole million to million students Moving onto course B in million students had decided to take the course )n the number s nearly doubled to million people attending the course )n million people took course B (owever in the situation markedly changed the numbers of students taking course B had decreased significantly to million students Turning to the data for course C one can discern that in million students took the course This figure stayed the same for Then in there was a notable rise to million people taking course C By the numbers of students taking course A had increased dramatically to million students )f we analyze the data we can see several trends clearly emerging Firstly the numbers of candidates taking course A has stayed virtually the same over the four years This was despite a decline and then gradual rebound in to The number of candidates taking course B has gradually declined over the four years from million in to million in (owever the numbers of candidates taking course had more than double from million to million over the four year period To conclude then one can say that over the four year period from to there has been an overall increase in the numbers of students attending all three courses Word count . © IELTS- Blog.com - All Rights Reserved Web: http://www .ielts- blog.com 2 Learn From The Examiner How to Pass the IELTS Writing Module April )ELTSBlogcom. General Training Task of the )ELTS Writing Module Explained Task of the )ELTS Writing Module Explained The most common mistakes made by )ELTS candidates and how to