The richness of your ideas and the strength of your arguments (including the logic, not just the strength of your English) is VITAL for getting a good Task 2 score.
Hackneyed phrases:
- Last but not least
- First and foremost
- Every coin has two sides
- With the development of science and technology, ...
- Moreover
My general advice for avoiding hackneyed expressions and for writing better essays overall is to read as many materials that were written by native English speakers as you can.
if possible, use suitable synonyms and other words sometimes instead of repeating the same word all the time.
The biggest problem for people at the Band 5 to 6 level is that it is difficult to write a good essay of 300 or more words in about 40 minutes. Someone at the Band 8 level could do it but a Band 5.5 candidate would be writing in a hurry, not thinking very clearly about the real or full meaning of the question,...
I think that sometimes (not always) the legibility of the essay alone might be indirectly worth 1/4 of a band point for that essay due to the effect of poor legibility, even though this is not written in the Band Descriptor.
Overall, I think candidates at the Band 4.5 to 7 level should teach themselves to write Task 2 essays that are between 260 and 290 words long. (Writing 260 to 275 words would be better.) You can teach yourself this by practicing writing essays using copies of the real exam writing paper and then you can get to know how many lines you need to write to reach the word count you want.
You should also try to teach yourself how to summarize better. I realized that the nature of these Task 2 questions is not simply to test your essay writing ability but to test your ability to write concisely, which really means expressing some things (or even most things) in a rather summarized form. This is assuming your essay has several ideas or points, not just one or two.
Hackneyed phrases:
- Last but not least
- First and foremost
- Every coin has two sides
- With the development of science and technology, ...
- Moreover
My general advice for avoiding hackneyed expressions and for writing better essays overall is to read as many materials that were written by native English speakers as you can.
if possible, use suitable synonyms and other words sometimes instead of repeating the same word all the time.
The biggest problem for people at the Band 5 to 6 level is that it is difficult to write a good essay of 300 or more words in about 40 minutes. Someone at the Band 8 level could do it but a Band 5.5 candidate would be writing in a hurry, not thinking very clearly about the real or full meaning of the question,...
I think that sometimes (not always) the legibility of the essay alone might be indirectly worth 1/4 of a band point for that essay due to the effect of poor legibility, even though this is not written in the Band Descriptor.
Overall, I think candidates at the Band 4.5 to 7 level should teach themselves to write Task 2 essays that are between 260 and 290 words long. (Writing 260 to 275 words would be better.) You can teach yourself this by practicing writing essays using copies of the real exam writing paper and then you can get to know how many lines you need to write to reach the word count you want.
You should also try to teach yourself how to summarize better. I realized that the nature of these Task 2 questions is not simply to test your essay writing ability but to test your ability to write concisely, which really means expressing some things (or even most things) in a rather summarized form. This is assuming your essay has several ideas or points, not just one or two.
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