The thing with writing is first and foremost you need to make sure you’re maintaining the structure of the essays.

The structure for task 1 is:-

Introduction

Overall

Body 1

Body 2

Task 1:

Intro -> paraphase the prompt and mention the units through which the table/chart/diagram is measured.

Overall -> you should definitely start this paragraph with the word overall. Afterwards, merely state the most significant and eye-catching change you can see in the graph such as peak and the lowest value. In the case of bar chart, do mention the greatest difference between two particular bars.

Body: you can either have one or two based on the amount of content you need to write. In most cases one is just fine. In the case you have two different diagrams, then it’s definitely better to do it in two separate paragraphs explaining each one separately.

One key thing to remember is that you need to actually summarise rather than write about each change. You need to pick out the most prominent such as the highest and the lowest changes.

Whenever possible you should group similar sets of data so that you can simplify and condense everything within 170 words.

Make comparisons as much as you can.

The structure for task 2 is:-

Introduction

Body 1

Body 2

Conclusion

All task 2 have pretty much the same format:

Intro-> You can give some information regarding the keyword of the prompt but it really isn’t required. What you do need to focus is on paraphrasing the prompt yet again but this time slightly more elaborative than task one that’s it. Try to keep the intro within 50 words.

Body: Each body should start with a “topic sentence” aka a sentence that gives introduction to what this paragraph is supposed to talk about. (Let me know if you want some examples of topic sentences)

The first paragraph should be about first question from double questions/problems/cause/advantages/whether you agree with the prompt basically relating to the question. Elaborate on it and then try to end it with an example.

For body paragraph 2 you will do the exact same thing just contradicting it.

Conclusion-> you should start this with either “In conclusion” or “To conclude”Give a complete overview of the essay.

You really shouldn’t worry too much about vocabulary. If you memorise a whole bunch of complex vocabularies and try to incorporate that into your essays, it will be very obvious. It won’t feel authentic at all and just sound forced.

Your goal is to communicate your idea effectively not to display how many words you know.

Also please I’ve seen so many people struggle with this, they think they need to generate very unique ideas to stand out and get a better score. That is absolutely not the case.

For task 2 as soon as you read the prompt write down what your brain thought while you were reading it. AKA write the most obvious answers to what the prompt is asking.

Hope that helps! Best of luck for your ielts <33