IELTS Writing Task 2: How to Finally Break Through Band 6.5

Struggling to break past a Band 6.5 in IELTS Writing Task 2? It’s time to transform your approach! Our IELTS expert, Bailey, has crafted a proven framework that addresses all four key scoring criteria, helping you elevate your writing and achieve the score your target score.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction: Breaking down the 6.5 score bottleneck
0:16 - How Task 2 is scored (The 4 core criteria)
1:26 - Blocker #1: Task Response
3:36 - Blocker #2: Coherence and Cohesion
5:42 - Blocker #3: Lexical Resource
7:48 - Blocker #4: Grammatical Range and Accuracy
9:12 - The Daily/Weekly Practice Routine to jump from Band 6.5 to 7
10:11 - The importance of expert feedback and overcoming writing blind spots
11:00 - Quick recap of the 4 criteria and the free self-audit checklist

In this video, E2's Head of Content, Bailey, walks through the four marking criteria for IELTS Writing Task 2 and the most common reason students plateau at 6.5: two of the four criteria sit at Band 6 instead of 7. You'll learn:

• Why a 6.5 overall almost always means two specific criteria are pulling your score down
• What Band 7 Task Response looks like in practice — with side-by-side examples
• Why "more linking words" is not the path to higher Coherence and Cohesion
• The vocabulary trap that keeps Lexical Resource at Band 6
• Three grammar structures that lift Grammatical Range and Accuracy
• A weekly practice routine that actually moves your score

This video is for IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training candidates. Task 2 is identical for both formats.

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