Why IELTS Writing feels impossible to practise alone
Most IELTS candidates can measure their progress in reading and listening on their own. They take a practice test, check the answer key and see a number. Writing is different. You finish a 250-word essay, read it back, and still have no idea whether it is a Band 6 or a Band 7. A teacher who marks every essay quickly and consistently is expensive, and a friend who speaks good English is not the same thing as an examiner.
That gap is why we built IELTS Writing Practice: a realistic IELTS writing simulator that gives you a Band score and specific corrections within seconds, so you can write, learn and write again while the lesson is still fresh.
Practise under real exam conditions
The simulator covers all three writing formats: Academic Task 1, General Training Task 1 and Task 2. You can type your own question, upload the chart for an Academic Task 1 prompt, or pick a random question from the bank. The Task 2 timer gives you 40 minutes and only starts when you type your first word, and a live word counter shows when you have reached the minimum length. Writing against the clock matters more than most candidates expect. An essay you write in an hour with a dictionary at your side tells you very little about the essay you will write on test day.
Scores you can actually trust
An AI score is only useful if it is close to the Band an examiner would give. We tested this directly. We collected 97 official IELTS responses that already have published examiner Bands and scored them with five popular writing tools. IELTS Writing Practice had the lowest average error in that benchmark, 0.53 of a Band, and landed within half a Band of the official result 74.2% of the time. The method, the source books and the limitations are all published in our 97-essay scoring accuracy benchmark, so you can judge the evidence for yourself rather than take our word for it.
Feedback that tells you what to change
A number alone does not help you improve. Every review breaks your score down across the four official criteria: Task Achievement or Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. Then it goes through your essay sentence by sentence. Each correction shows the original words, the suggested change and a short explanation, labelled with the criterion it affects. "Show" becomes "shows" because the subject is singular. A vague "this" becomes a clear noun so the reader can follow your argument. Small fixes like these are exactly what separates a 6.5 from a 7.
Learn from real questions and strong answers
Practice is more useful when the questions are the ones candidates actually meet. Our recent IELTS writing questions page collects real exam questions reported by test takers over the last three months, and you can open any of them in the simulator with one click. The question bank is organised by type, from opinion and discussion essays to bar charts, maps, processes and formal letters, so you can work on the format that gives you the most trouble.
When you want to see what a high score looks like, the Band 8 and 9 sample essays show complete answers with line-by-line commentary, and there are matching collections for Academic Task 1 reports and General Training letters. You will also find official Cambridge IELTS samples, a writing score calculator and a plain-English guide to the band descriptors. The whole site is available in English and Simplified Chinese.
Simple pricing
You can start for free: the free plan includes one feedback preview each month with overall and criterion evaluations and your first correction in full. If you are preparing seriously, the Unlimited Monthly plan costs $14.99 a month, and the Annual Pass gives you twelve months of unlimited reviews for a one-time $39.99, with no automatic renewal.
A better way to prepare
The fastest way to improve your writing is a short loop: write under exam conditions, get honest feedback, fix the specific problems, and write again. IELTS Writing Practice is built to make that loop take minutes instead of days. If you have an IELTS test coming up, try the simulator with your next essay and see where you really stand.
