The IELTS General
Training Task 1 Writing Test
The IELTS General Training
Writing Test lasts for 1 hour and includes 2 tasks. Task 1 is a letter and you
must write at least 150 words. You should spend about 20 minutes out of the
hour for task 1. Task 2 is an essay and you must write at least 250 words. You
should spend about 40 minutes for Task 2.
The
Task for the IELTS General Training Task 1 Writing
The IELTS General Training
Writing Task 1 asks you to write a letter of a minimum of 150 words in response
to some situation or problem. The task will probably ask you to complain about
something, to request information, ask for help, to make arrangements and/or
explain a situation. All these are fairly similar tasks.
Marking
for the IELTS General Training Task 1 Writing
The IELTS General Training
Task 1 Writing will be marked in four areas. You will get a mark from 1 to 9 on
Task Achievement, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource and Grammatical
Range and Accuracy. Your final band for task 1 will be effectively an average
of the four marks awarded in these areas. Task 1 writing is less important than
task 2 and to calculate the final writing mark, more weight is assigned to the
task 2 mark than to task 1's mark. To get a good overall mark for The IELTS
General Training Writing though, both tasks have to be well answered so
don't hold back on task 1 or give yourself too little time to answer it
properly.
Task
Achievement This
where you can really make a difference through careful preparation. This mark
grades you on basically "have you answered the question". It marks
whether you have covered all requirements of the task suffiently and whether
you presented, highlighted and illustrate the key points appropriately.
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