The #1 Mistake All IELTS Band 7 Writers Avoid
Planning will get 50% of your mark in
5 minutes.
Planning is your superpower!
Write your essay and ONLY worry about grammar and vocabulary.
This is what goes on in your brain when you don’t plan.
In every sentence, you are thinking of all four categories, and it’s confusing!
This is what smart students do.
When the planning is done BEFORE you write anything, you are free to focus on your grammar and vocabulary.
How do you plan well?
The three yellow boxes on the right show the stages (not the paragraphs).
Decide on your answer, including your two paragraph topics/ideas, then your organisation: (add a third paragraph if needed) then plan how you will you extend and support.
Your plan will look like this.
Start with this on paper.
It should take 5-10 minutes.
(don’t worry, writing will go MUCH faster when you have a plan. Try it in practice.
Super Time Saving Idea
You can practice planning an essay at home in 5-10 minutes, without having to write out a whole essay. (get your work checked in my course or 1-1 feedback session)
In our four week course, you will do 10 essay plans and 1 full essay per week. That’s 40 essay plans and 4 essays. We will check them all for you, and you WILL become a strong writer!
Write without worries!
When you plan, you will think of a reason for your point of view. That will be a topic for a paragraph. If you find that you can’t explain it well, it’s OK. It’s just the planning stage! You can choose a different idea!
But I can’t think of ideas!
Don’t worry. It’s a common problem for almost EVERY new student. You will get good at it during the course.
We guarantee that you will get your band after our four-week course!
We will do the following process in the course
- Train you how to ‘see’ a whole paragraph before writing.
- Make you learn what a great paragraph looks like.
- Teach you how to eliminate weak ideas.
- Show you how to organise those ideas into clear English grammar that gets band 7.
- Show you which words to use and how to use them in the right way. (no word lists!)
- Give you practice writing these paragraphs and quick feedback so that you can improve instantly!
This is where confidence is built.
It’s not in a ‘get band 7 with this trick’ video.
It’s through a process of real growth.
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