In this lesson you will learn about Common problems in Task 2How and why you may be practising Band 3-5

This means that you should not give any personal conclusions 
about the information in the task.

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Writing a conclusion like this can lower your TA score as your 
position or personal views are ‘irrelevant’ here. Task 1 is a brief 
summary and is quite differenet to the essay you will produce in 
Task 2. If your Task 1 answers look similar to your Task 2 essays 
then it is likely that you are not ‘covering the requirements of the 
task’ (band 7).A summary is a piece of text that would normally be 
one part of a much longer document. As such,it does not need a 
conclusion.Some writers do prefer to ‘conclude’ their summary 
with an overview-this means that the overview statement comes 
at the the end of their answer. However,this is not a ‘conclusion’ in 
the sense of a Task 2 essay-it is simply one way to ‘conclude’ or 
‘finish’ the summary.

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Many people contact me after their writing test and tell me that 
they ran out of time and didn’t complete Task 1. As we have 
seen,this can have a big impact on your overall score.Writing a 
clear overview is important to reach band 6 or 7 in tha Task 1,and 
this is way I advice you to prioritise it and write it early in your 
answer.Furthermore, it is convention in many academic papers to 
give a general overview before going into the deatails. 
It is very important to remember that you are preparing to take a 
test-a test where we know that the examiner is looking for.Your 
job is to practise producing answers that will meet the criteria for 
band 7 and above.