IELTS Writing · Academic & General Training

Find the one mistake that's costing you a whole band.

Most IELTS checkers hand you a score and leave you guessing. ClearMyBand grades your essay on all four official criteria, then isolates the single highest-impact fix — and tells you exactly how many band points it's worth.

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ClearMyBand IELTS writing evaluation showing a band 6 breakdown and the one grammar fix worth a full band
The Trap

Practicing harder isn't the same as improving.

You write essay after essay. You get a band. The band doesn't move — and no one tells you why. “Improve your grammar” and “use better vocabulary” aren't instructions, they're dead ends. So you keep repeating the same mistakes, one band below where you need to be, with the test date getting closer.

The gap between 6.5 and 7 is rarely about effort. It's about knowing the one thing to fix.

Your One Focus

A score tells you where you are. We tell you what to do next.

Every evaluation ends with Your One Focus — the single fault doing the most damage to your band, named in plain English and quantified:

“Present perfect + subject-verb agreement — costing you 1.0 band.”

Then we show you the exact sentences where it happened, the corrected versions, and a short drill to lock the fix in. Fix the one thing that matters most, retake, and watch the number move.

Before and after IELTS sentence rewrites with examiner-style explanations
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How It Works

From essay to action plan in under a minute.

Step 1

Write or paste.

Practice in timed exam mode with a built-in question library, generate a random prompt, or paste your own essay. Task 1 and Task 2, Academic or General Training.

IELTS Writing Task 2 practice editor with timer and live word count
Step 2

Get graded instantly.

A band score plus a breakdown across all four official criteria: Task Response, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range & Accuracy. You see exactly which one is dragging you down.

ClearMyBand IELTS writing evaluation showing a band 6 breakdown and the one grammar fix worth a full band
Step 3

See your one focus.

The highest-impact fix, quantified in band points, with your own sentences rewritten and a targeted drill.

Before and after IELTS sentence rewrites with examiner-style explanations
Step 4

Track your climb.

Every attempt is plotted against your target band, so you can see progress build instead of guessing. Our dashboard chart visualizes an upward trajectory so you stay motivated.

YOUR ESSAYS7 attempts overall
Attempts7
Best Band7.0
YOUR TRAJECTORY (SEEDED UPWARD CLIMB)
5.06.07.08.09.0Target (7.0)5.5May 256.0May 276.5May 297.0May 317.5Jun 1
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Deliverables

Everything you need to close the gap — nothing you don't.

  • Four-criteria band breakdownTR, CC, LR and GRA scored separately, so you stop fixing the wrong thing.
  • Your One FocusThe single highest-ROI correction, quantified in band points.
  • Sentence rewritesYour actual lines, corrected, with the reason each change matters.
  • Vocabulary upgradesInformal phrasing swapped for band-7 academic alternatives.
  • Free points lostThe careless slips and informal phrasings quietly capping your score.
  • Targeted drillsShort, specific practice built around your weakest criterion.
  • Progress trajectoryYour band over time, measured against your goal.
IELTS vocabulary upgrades replacing informal phrasing with band-7 academic alternatives
Test Coverage

Built for the test you're actually taking.

ClearMyBand covers both Academic and General Training Writing, Task 1 and Task 2 — graded against the official criteria the examiners use, not a generic grammar checker's guess.

Accuracy

Graded against the official band descriptors.

Every essay is assessed using the four official IELTS Writing assessment criteria, the same dimensions a human examiner marks against. You get examiner-style reasoning for every score — not just a number, but why.

Success Stories

Real essays. Real band jumps.

The vocabulary checker showed me I was capping my Lexical Resource score at 6.0 due to using informal phrasing like 'tons of' and 'pics'. I corrected them and scored a 7.5.

AmitPR applicant, Canada

I kept making subject-verb agreement errors in my reports. Seeing the exact sentences highlighted with 'Your One Focus' helped it click. My score went from 6.0 to 7.0.

SofiaStudent, UK

Having the breakdown of TR and CC is invaluable. I realized I was spending all my time on spelling when paragraph structure was the real problem. Hit my 7.0 goal.

ChenPR applicant, Australia

Stop guessing. Find your one fix.

Paste your last essay and see, in under a minute, the single thing standing between you and your target band.

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Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

ClearMyBand grades against the four official IELTS Writing criteria and gives examiner-style reasoning for each score. Use it to find and fix what's holding your band back — it's a practice and diagnosis tool, not an official IELTS result.

Yes — both, for Task 1 and Task 2.

Yes, free during the public beta. No card required to start.

You're scored separately on Task Response, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range & Accuracy, then given an overall band — so you can see exactly which criterion is costing you.

Both. Beyond the score, you get your One Focus, rewrites of your own sentences, vocabulary upgrades, and a drill — then you track your band across attempts.

Yes. We take your privacy very seriously. Your submitted essays and letters are processed securely to generate your score and feedback. We do not sell your essays, share them publicly, or use them to identify you.

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