Writing Practice for IELTS Overview The IELTS writing test consists of two tasks: task 1 and Task 2. You have one hour to complete both tasks. Below is an example of a Task 2 essay question from an IELTS Academic writing test. Academic Task 2 essay questions cover different types of essays: opinion, discussion, advantages and disadvantages, problem and solution, agress or disagree, and double question essays. Your response in the IELTS writing test is scored using 4 official IELTS marking criteria: Task Achievement, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and Coherence and Cohesion. The Academic test writing section differs from the IELTS General test. There are still two writing tasks but Task 1 is to summarize or describe data or some type of visual information such as a chart, graph, table, stages of a process, flow diagram, map, or similar. Tip You should use authentic IELTS practice tests and model answers to become familiar with different Task 1 and T...