Free IELTS Band 7 Writing Course and Exercises

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Last Updated on September 10, 2025

This free online band 7 IELTS writing course has exercises and information for students who are struggling to improve their writing band scores.

The writing section of the IELTS test is the most challenging part for many students, and our hope is that this guide will help you to see real improvements.

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The IELTS writing test takes 1 hour in total and is divided into two tasks:

  • Task 1 (20 mins)
  • Task 2 (40 mins)

You will either be doing the ‘IELTS academic test’ or the ‘IELTS general test’. The task 2 is the same for both tests, but the difference is the task 1.

  • General IELTS test (Task 1 involves writing informal and formal letters to landlords and employers)
  • Academic IELTS test (Task 1 involves writing about data on graphs, pie charts, bar graphs, tables, and process diagrams.

What are the most common reasons for not achieving band 7?

In our experience, there are three common reasons why students receive a low band score for IELTS writing:

  • Misunderstanding the task 2 question
  • A lack of relevant ideas, idea development, and flow (planning)
  • A high frequency of grammatical errors within an essay

The exercises below are to help students looking to reach band 7.

Our next article will show you how to generate ideas, plan a task 2 essay, and make it flow well.

How to generate ideas and plan an IELTS task 2 essay

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It is important to realise that 50% of the task 2 marks are on how well you respond to the task and how well these ideas flow. Planning is essential! On this page, we will look at different ways to think of ideas, plan an essay, and make them flow and connect well.

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The other main reasons students receive a low IELTS writing band score are due to:

  • Inappropriate vocabulary or lack of paraphrasing.
  • Poor flow of ideas and/or lack of linking words.
  • Lack of grammatical sentence structures (eg. complex sentences)
  • Misunderstanding how essays are marked.

We think the exercises in this free course below will help you to improve these areas.

 Sample Essays📜

Each essay has a full explanation of the sentence types, types of linking words, common problems, and vocabulary used.

IELTS Writing Exercises 🏋️‍♂️

In this exercise, you have to identify mistakes in student’s task 2 essays.

💡 To achieve band 7, you need to focus on minimising your grammatical errors as much as you can. Simplifying your grammar to ensure it is accurate is better than trying to impress the examiner by writing sentences that could contain errors.

Quantifiers are the words that go before nouns and show the amount or quantity of something. Students often use the same quantifiers ‘many’ and ‘some’ in their writing and speaking. However, if you are aiming for band 7,  there are a large number of other quantifiers you should be aware of.

🚀  Many students report an improvement of 0.5 band score just by improving their range of quanitifers in their writing.

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Quantifier Exercises for IELTS Writing

September 23, 2023 2 Comments

If you are aiming for a band score over 6.5, it is good to show the examiner that you know a wider range of quantifiers. The exercises below will help you to become aware of other quantifiers you can use before uncountable and countable nouns.

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Students often overlook the importance of referencing within an essay. Essays without referencing suffer from repetitiveness which can negatively impact your cohesion and coherence score.

This page will teach you how to write an IELTS task 2 introduction and use paraphrasing effectively. There are practice exercises at the end of the page.

Review the common spelling mistakes students make again and again. 

These three words are often confused and are also very common in both tasks.  Practice these exercises to understand the differences between these 3 words.

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