Tips for band 8 essay writing

20. Don't write more or less words than you need to.

Writing too many words takes too much time, increases the possibility of making mistakes. Writing too few will cause you to lose marks. The ideal is to aim for between 260 – 280 words in the essay and 160-180 words in Task 1.

 

21. Don’t repeat the Question:

In the essay, don't repeat major chunks of the question in your answer. Underline the keywords from the essay task, think of the synonyms of the keywords. Use new words in the introduction of essays. Also, learn lots of synonyms, for example students we can say: young learner, learner, pupil, alumni, university education goer, etc.