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AI IELTS Writing Checker
Paste or write your essay, submit, and get a band score in seconds, broken down across all four official marking criteria, with the specific sentences that are costing you half a band.
How does the AI IELTS writing checker score my essay?
Your essay is scored the way an examiner scores it: against the four official criteria, each contributing 25% of the Writing band.
| Criterion | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Task Achievement / Response | Did you fully answer the question with a clear, developed position? |
| Coherence & Cohesion | Paragraphing, logical flow, and linking that doesn’t feel mechanical |
| Lexical Resource | Range and precision of vocabulary, collocation, and spelling |
| Grammatical Range & Accuracy | Sentence variety and how error-free your grammar is |
Each criterion gets its own band, so you can see at a glance whether it is your ideas, your structure, your vocabulary or your grammar that is holding the score down, and the feedback quotes your own sentences when it points out an issue.
What feedback do I get beyond the band score?
- A band for each of the four criteria, plus the overall Writing band
- Sentence-level issues: grammar slips, weak collocations, repeated linking words
- Vocabulary upgrades: stronger alternatives for overused words
- Structure notes: paragraph balance, thesis clarity, conclusion strength
- Revision suggestions you can apply and resubmit to watch the band move
Why not just ask ChatGPT to check my IELTS essay?
A general chatbot is not an IELTS examiner. Ask it to grade the same essay twice and you will often get two different bands; ask it why, and it rarely maps its reasoning to the official descriptors. A purpose-built checker applies the same four criteria every time, shows its working per criterion, keeps your essay history, and charts whether Grammatical Range is improving week over week, which is what moves a real score from 6.0 to 7.0.
How do I raise my IELTS Writing band with it?
The pattern that works: write one essay, read the per-criterion feedback, rewrite the same essay applying it, and resubmit. Seeing the same text move from 6.0 to 6.5 teaches you more than writing five new essays blind. Then drill your weakest criterion. Most candidates stuck at 6.0 are losing marks to Task Response (underdeveloped ideas) or Grammatical Range (safe, repetitive sentence patterns), not vocabulary.
Frequently asked questions
Is the IELTS writing checker free?
Yes. The Free plan includes two AI Writing scores every week with the full criterion-by-criterion breakdown, no card needed. The Go plan raises this to five per week and Ace removes the limit entirely.
What criteria does the AI use to score my essay?
The same four criteria human IELTS examiners use, each worth 25% of the band: Task Achievement (Task 1) or Task Response (Task 2), Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. You get a separate band for each, plus the overall Writing band.
Can ChatGPT score my IELTS essay instead?
General chatbots can comment on an essay, but they are not calibrated to IELTS band descriptors, tend to score generously, and give different numbers each time you ask. A purpose-built checker applies the official criteria consistently, shows per-criterion bands, and tracks your progress across essays.
Does it check both Task 1 and Task 2?
Yes. Task 2 essays, Academic Task 1 chart and process descriptions, and General Training letters are all supported, with prompts in the real exam format.
How accurate is an AI band score compared to a real examiner?
The AI applies the published band descriptors the way an examiner does and reports each criterion separately, so you can check its reasoning against your own text. What you get is consistent, instant feedback you can act on every day: a reliable practice estimate rather than an official result.
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Two free AI Writing scores every week, with the full four-criteria breakdown. No card needed.
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