General and academic band scores

Band scores

How to achieve band score 8.0

A series of lessons on how to improve your IELTS writing

grammatical accuracy

Overview of band scores

Writing band scores – an overview of how IELTS writing is marked

The criteria in detail

Task response – details of task response and how to avoid common mistakes

Lexical resource - details of lexical resource and how to avoid common mistakes

Coherence and cohesion – details of coherence and cohesion and how to avoid common mistakes

Grammatical range and accuracy – details of grammatical range and accuracy and how to avoid common mistakes