IELTS Writing practice that coaches one essay, not fifty

Write an essay. Get it marked. Then rewrite that same essay and submit it again. The grader re-reads it and tells you whether the thing that was capping you is fixed — and if your band did not move, why not.

This sounds small and it is not. Score-and-move-on tools train you to produce a lot of mediocre essays; a candidate who writes twenty essays and never revises one is practising their existing habits twenty times. The revision loop is the difference between measurement and coaching, and it is why we ask you to write fewer essays and fix more of them.

You get all four official criteria scored separately — Task Response, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range & Accuracy — and for each one:

• The band, grounded in the official public band descriptors rather than the model’s general impression.
• The evidence — actual lines quoted from your essay, so you can see what the score is based on and argue with it by fixing the writing.
• What is capping it — the single specific thing standing between you and the next half band, named rather than gestured at.
• The fix, plus a “band with fixes” target so you know what the essay is worth if you do the work.

You also get a Band 9 model answer to the same prompt, so “what would better have looked like” is a document you can read rather than a mystery.

Our grader is calibrated against expert-judged essays and tuned to sit slightly below a human examiner. When your essay lands between two bands, it rounds down and tells you what is missing from the higher one.

That is a deliberate product decision and occasionally an unpopular one. An inflated 7.0 feels good for a week and costs you on results day; an honest 6.5 with a named gap is something you can act on this evening. Try it without an account on the free IELTS writing checker.

One thing worth knowing if you have been taught to write from a memorised template: examiners have been marking templated essays down hard, and Task Response is where it shows. Our grader reflects that, so a template that scored well two years ago may come back lower than you expect.

Task 1 and Task 2 prompts are generated fresh for every session across the real question categories, so you are never rehearsing an essay you have already seen. You write in a distraction-free studio with a timer and autosave — the timer matters, because Task 2 in forty minutes is a different skill from Task 2 in an afternoon, and it is the one being tested.

Writing sits alongside Reading, Listening and Speaking in one account — see all four together. Teaching a class? Assign essays and read the reports.