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LET'S LEARN WRITING BAND 7+ ESSAY WITH ME, STEP BY STEP....with a sample response...

 

Some people believe that childhood is the best stage of happiness. While others believe that a person can enjoy more happiness in other stages of life. Discuss both the views and give your opinion.


Before going through this steps, you need to know your band score depends on 4 main criteria -TR, CC, LR, GRA. 

Now, read these steps and start practicing the same in your routine IELTS Writing practice to become pro in this skill.


In this next five steps, you will learn to write a complete band 7 essay. 

1)    The first step is to understand the question to know TR. To achieve band 7+ in your Task Response, you must address all the parts of the question without fail. So, to do this you always have to understand the type of question and the parts in it. In this question there are three parts and we need to address them to get 7+ in TR. 

      A) Part 1 is to talk about “Why childhood is the best stage” 
B) Part 2 is “Why happiness can be enjoyed more in other stages of life?.
C) Part 3 is to give our own opinion. There are mainly 10 types of questions in IELTS Writing Task-2. To know about these various types and to crack their TR with 100% fail-proof method, ask me here...
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2)   Step 2 is to Brainstorm: Brainstorm is important in scoring good because this is what keeps your essay on track. If you're well-informed, you must have known that your criteria for TR says : Your ideas should be relevant and clearly support your argument. Now to do this you have to brainstorm and gather ideas which are to the point, precise and clear to convey your message. If you're struggling to gather good ideas, let me know here,https://wa.link/l7alir so I can help you do this with some simple but effective ways.   

Now, in this given essay We need to think
 “Why Childhood is the happiest period?” –
Go back to your own childhood, how was your life better in your childhood than today? What things made you happy in the childhood but not today?) 
The points can be:
- No major responsibilities,
- Less maturity means less burden and less stress,
- More freedom of time,
- Family members to take care and pamper

Now, think the other part. What things can make someone happier in their young age or what limits our happiness in childhood?
- Freedom to do what we want,
- More understanding about interests/passion-leads to sense of satisfaction
and achievement,
- More socialization means more sharing,
- Ability to explore more - For example - driving, voting, traveling rights...

3)      Now once we have thought enough about the ideas, let’s plan: To plan your essay: you need to remember your planning for writing is the most important key in achieving good score. While You need to decide: What points to be taken, what to be avoided from your brainstorming, what should be the order to present your ideas, and how to organize them in paragraphs, how many paragraphs to be written, (Now here is the main trick. To achieve more in your CC and GRA you need to use some important language patterns to minimize the length and give more important ideas in just around 250 words. Use advance grammar, show case your language skill to avoid repetition in writing other’s opinion and giving your own opinion. Let me know here how do you usually plan your essays: What things make you struggle the most in this section? ping me here: https://wa.link/l7alir

4)    Now, once you’ve made up your mind, start writing immediately. (Read my sample answer on above discussed ideas in my next blog. and compare your answer with mine) 

5)    In the final stage, read your essay at least two times and find those minor silly mistakes, correct them and make your essay error-free. You might find errors mainly in singular/plural, subject verb agreement, using articles, may be in writing a spelling or you might come up with a better word choice when you re-read. That’s all. You are ready to rock with band7+ in your first try only. 


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