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Introduction The IELTS process diagrams question can occur in one of two ways: first, as a process diagram, e.g., the brick-making process given below, or second, as a cyclic process, which could be a natural process, e.g. the water life cycle in the environment. Solved Example Source: Official IELTS website www.https://ielts.org IELTS process diagrams tips Follow the essay structure Follow the shared essay structure. Constant practice will make it easier to attempt the essay questions and reduce the time taken to try these. Structure Introduction - paragraph 1 Overview - paragraph 2 First main feature - paragraph 3 Second main feature - paragraph 4 Stick to the word limit If the task says you have to write a minimum of 150 words, ensure you write at least 150 words, but keep…

Introduction IELTS line graph questions are an easy type of question to attempt. You need to interpret the data trends the lines represent over time. Solved Example Source: Official IELTS website www.https://ielts.org IELTS bar graph tips Follow the essay structure Follow the shared essay structure. Constant practice will make it easier to attempt the essay questions and reduce the time taken to try these. Structure Introduction - paragraph 1 Overview - paragraph 2 First main feature - paragraph 3 Second main feature - paragraph 4 Stick to the word limit If the task says you have to write a minimum of 150 words, ensure you write at least 150 words, but keep it within 200 words IELTS line graph strategy Observe the data types on the axes Observe the data types…

Introduction The IELTS bar graph is a common question type in the IELTS exam. They are also an easier chart to tackle. Follow the tips and strategies we have shared to ace them. Source: Official IELTS website www.https://ielts.org IELTS bar graph tips Follow the essay structure Follow the shared essay structure. constant practice will make it easier to attempt the essay questions and reduce the time taken to try these. Structure Introduction - paragraph 1 Overview - paragraph 2 First main feature - paragraph 3 Second main feature - paragraph 4 Stick to the word limit If the task says you have to write a minimum of 150 words, ensure you write at least 150 words, but keep it within 200 words IELTS bar graph strategy Observe the data types on…

Introduction In the IELTS writing task 1 you will need to describe a table, line graph, bar chart, pie chart or diagram in your own words. You will get 20 minutes to write 150 words. IELTS writing task 1 marking criteria for academic and general training Before starting with writing task 1 it is important to understand the marking criteria of this task. It is marked on the four criteria mentioned below. Task achievement (Academic) This criterion checks if the response has at least 150 words and is complete, appropriate, accurate and relevant to the given task. It checks whether the test taker can Identify the key features of the task. Provide sufficient details about these features. Report Accurate figures and trends. Compare the data points. Identify and highlight trends…

Introduction In the IELTS reading note completion task, you must complete the blanks in the sentences, which are part of incomplete notes. To complete the blanks you must read and utilize the information given in a text. This task is not a difficult task, don't let the name fool you it is just like the fill-in-the-blanks tasks we all have been used to throughout our schooling days. IELTS Reading note completion sample task Economic Apartheid A new report from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University shows that wealth creation is remarkable, one might say, criminally, unequal. Follow this hierarchy at the top of the wealth pyramid: the richest 1 percent of adults alone owned 40 percent of global assets in the year 2000; the…

Introduction In the IELTS reading sentence endings task you are given some incomplete sentences and some possible sentence endings, you have to select the correct endings after reading through a given text. This type of question is not very common in the test. IELTS Reading matching sentence endings sample task [Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about the scientific community in London in the1500s.] Science in 16th-century London The Jewel House, a new book by historical researcher and authorDeborah Harkness Deborah Harkness devotes her elegantand erudite new book, The Jewel House, to thescientific community in 16th-century London.She (rightly) argues that it is thanks to theimaginative collective efforts of the urbanscientists that London became the melting potin which a new mathematical andexperimental culture crystallized. Harkness is known…

Introduction In the IELTS reading diagram label completion task you are given a diagram and have to complete the labels after reading through a given text. This task can be daunting as it is imperative to understand the diagram to complete it. IELTS Reading diagram label completion sample task [Note: This is an extract from an Academic Reading passage on the subject of a method ofproviding water to grow vegetables in desert regions. The text preceding this extract gavesome background facts about the development of the method.] Charlie Paton has built a giant structure on a desert island off Abu Dhabi in the PersianGulf – the first commercially viable version of his ‘seawater greenhouse’. Localscientists, working with Paton under a licence from his company Light Works, arewatering the desert and…

Introduction In the IELTS Reading short answer question you have to answer a set of questions by reading a text in about two to three words. IELTS Reading short answer questions sample task Source: Official IELTS website www.https://ielts.org IELTS Reading short answer question tips Stay within the word limit Identify the word limit for the answer and stay within it. Read the question Please read the questions understand them and then read the text. This will help you save time. Answers appear in the same order as the text A saving grace about these questions is that the answers will appear in the same order in the text. Identify the synonyms and paraphrasings Synonyms and paraphrasing will be used throughout the text. You should be able to identify the synonyms and…

Introduction In the IELTS Reading flow-chart completion question type you are given a flow-chart with blanks, and you have to fill in the blanks with answers from the given text. This question type is quite common in the IELTS test. IELTS Reading flow-chart completion sample task [Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about the effect of a low-calorie diet on the agingprocess.] Adapted from ‘The Serious Search for an Anti-Aging Pill’. Copyright © 2006 Scientific American, adivision of Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. No treatment on the market today has been proved to slow human aging. But oneintervention, consumption of a low-calorie∗ yet nutritionally balanced diet, works incrediblywell in a broad range of animals, increasing longevity and prolonging good health. Thosefindings suggest that caloric restriction…

Introduction In the IELTS reading summary completion task you will need to complete the blanks in a summary using the given words. You might have to fill in the blanks from a given text. This task is similar to filling in-the-blank tasks we have encountered in our academic lives. IELTS Reading summary completion sample task [Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about the ‘Plain English’ movement, whichpromotes the use of clear English.] ‘The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language’, David Crystal, 3rd Edition, © Cambridge UniversityPress, 2010. The instructions accompanying do-it-yourself products are regularly cited as a sourceof unnecessary expense or frustration. Few companies seem to test their instructionsby having them followed by a first-time user. Often, essential information is omitted,steps in the construction process are taken for…