What you get back, and how
IELTS Writing Checker marks Academic and General Training Task 1 and Task 2 essays against the four official band descriptors, then tells you specifically what is holding your score down.
The four steps
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Pick a task, or paste your own
Choose from a library of practice tasks in real exam format — charts, maps, process diagrams, and the five Task 2 essay types — or write against a prompt you already have.
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Write
A timer matches real exam conditions and keeps counting if you run over, so you can see how far past the limit you went. Your work is saved as you type; you do not need an account to start.
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Submit for assessment
One credit is spent. Word-count minimums, off-topic answers and non-English submissions are checked before anything else, so you are never given a confident-sounding score for an essay that could not earn one.
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Read the breakdown
An overall band, each criterion scored separately, every error marked in your own text with an explanation and a correction, and a summary of what to change next.
Scored on all four official criteria
An overall band on its own tells you very little. The same 6.5 can come from weak grammar with strong ideas, or the reverse — and those need completely different work. Each criterion is scored separately.
Task Achievement / Response
Whether you answered the whole question, covered the required content, and supported your position.
Coherence & Cohesion
Paragraphing, logical progression, and whether your linking words do real work rather than decorate.
Lexical Resource
Range and precision of vocabulary, collocation, and repetition.
Grammatical Range & Accuracy
Sentence variety, control of complex structures, and error density.
What a result looks like
Article error — countable nouns need a determiner.
Government should invest in public transport → The government should invest in public transport
Errors are grouped by type, so a habit you repeat twelve times reads as one thing to fix rather than twelve separate corrections. Explanations can be shown in your own language while the quoted text stays in English.
It tracks what you keep getting wrong
Every assessment feeds a running picture of your writing: which criterion is your weakest, which mistakes recur most often and how frequently per hundred words, which task types you have practised and which you have avoided, and how your band has moved over time.
What it is not
It does not write essays for you, and it is not a course or a chatbot. It marks work you wrote yourself and explains the marking — which is the part that is hard to get from a textbook and expensive to get from a tutor.