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What do you hate about preparing for the IELTS? What problems do you have that you can't find help for?

For me, it's hard to gauge my writing - I just don't know if my essays are good enough.

Chi wrote:For me, it's hard to gauge my writing - I just don't know if my essays are good enough.

The same for speaking?

Chi wrote:For me, it's hard to gauge my writing - I just don't know if my essays are good enough.

Yeah, I can imagine it would be really hard to know what band score your writing is at before taking the test. I think the IELTS does a good job with their band description sheet, but writing will always be a little be subjective.

Larry wrote:

Chi wrote:writing will always be a little be subjective.

Yes - and sometimes regrades might change etc..

It's true that grading writing can be subjective. But I think mostly because when you write, you tend to dive in your way of thinking and it's really hard to see what is wrong with what you've written.