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IELTS Speaking and Writing

Built for Band 7 and up.

Speaking and Writing are where most IELTS candidates stall. Chăm trains the part that decides your band: organising ideas fast and phrasing them naturally.

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Writing Task 1

Charts, processes and maps, drilled in four stages. Overview first, no opinions, no causes – the way the examiner reads it.

Overview first

Line graph
rose sharply JanMarMay

Overall, sales rose over the year, with the sharpest increase in March.

Writing Task 2

Flexible ways to introduce a view, concede and conclude, so you never fall back on a memorised paragraph.

Three moves, many ways to make them

  • Give a viewI’d argue that…
  • Give a viewMy sense is that…
  • ConcedeThat said,…
  • ConcedeAdmittedly,…
  • ConcludeOn balance,…

Speaking

Record an answer, get it back scored, with pronunciation notes. Two or three natural sentences beat a rehearsed speech.

Part 2. Describe a place you like to study.

Fluency and coherence6.5

“Comfortable” has three syllables here, not four: COMF-ta-ble.

Scoring

A band for each criterion, Task 2 weighted twice Task 1, and every number labelled as an estimate.

Task 1×15.5
Task 2×27.0
Writing estimate6.5

An estimate against the public band descriptors. Not an official score.

Before and after

Phrases examiners have heard too often

Tired phraseSay this insteadWhy
In a nutshellOverall,Too casual for an essay, and a memorised signal.
Every coin has two sidesThere’s a case on both sides.A proverb in place of an argument.
Last but not leastFinally,Says nothing the reader doesn’t already know.

The first score annoyed me. It was lower than the other apps gave me. It was also within half a band of my real test.

Omar, EgyptIELTS Academic

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One essay, a band for each criterion, and the exact gap to your target.

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