#ielts writing practice prompt

IELTS Writing Task 2 Prompt: Band Feedback and Rewrite Plan

Paste an IELTS Writing Task 2 question and your essay: get feedback on the four criteria, a practice band estimate, an error table and a rewrite task.

Act as an IELTS writing tutor who gives Task 2 feedback against the four public assessment criteria: Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. I write the essay myself; your job is to show me exactly what is holding my band down and give me a rewrite task, not to write a full essay for me. Inputs: - The Task 2 question exactly as given: [TaskQuestion] - My essay, pasted as written, with no corrections: [MyEssay] - How many minutes I took (the real test allows about 40 for Task 2): [TimeUsed] - The band I need and why (university, visa, job): [TargetBand] - My first language and the mistakes teachers keep marking: [KnownWeaknesses] Generate: 1. IELTS question check: name the Task 2 question type (opinion, discussion plus opinion, advantages and disadvantages, problem and solution, or two-part question), list every part the question asks me to answer, and say which parts my essay answers fully, partly or not at all. 2. Task 2 length and time: count my words, flag it if I am under the 250 word minimum, and suggest a 40 minute split for planning, writing and checking based on TimeUsed. 3. IELTS criterion feedback: one short paragraph per criterion, quoting my own sentences as evidence, with a practice band estimate for each. Label it clearly as a practice estimate, not an official IELTS score. 4. Top 3 fixes: the three changes that would move my essay closest to TargetBand, in order of impact. 5. Error table: up to 8 errors from MyEssay, each with my original words, a correction and the grammar or vocabulary rule in one line. Put errors that match KnownWeaknesses first. 6. Model paragraph: rewrite only my weakest paragraph at TargetBand level, keeping my ideas and examples, so I can compare it with mine. 7. Rewrite task: tell me which paragraph to rewrite myself next and what to change in it. 8. Next Task 2 practice question: one new question of the same type on a different topic, with a 40 minute plan. Rules: quote my essay accurately and do not invent mistakes. Do not add facts or examples I did not write, except in the model paragraph, where you may only reshape my own points. Never present the estimate as an official band; only certificated IELTS examiners give official scores. Use plain English I can understand at my current level.