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Why EssayChecker

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IELTS exam is respected and accepted by more than 11,000 organisations in over 140 countries. so whether you are taking IELTS exam for immigration, student visa or employment purpose, getting higher score is mostly on your mind.

When we did the survey of hundreds of exam takers, we found that lot of them are getting stuck at crossing 7.0 band in IELTS writing, even though they are very good in English or working in jobs where English is main language of communication.

They were already doing lot of presentations or formal communication in English, still they were not able to cross the hurdle of 7.0. For many of the first time IELTS exam takers, getting above 6.0 band in writing section was also tough. If you are also one of such exam takers, then EssayChecker will be definitely helpful to you.

Before we explain why you should try EssayChecker, we would highly recommend to read these two official articles by IDP :

We will reproduce the table from first article above here (Copyright and ownership with IDP)

Task response
  • sufficiently addresses all parts of the task
  • presents a well-developed response to the question with relevant, extended and supported ideas
Coherence and cohesion
  • sequences information and ideas logically
  • manages all aspects of cohesion well
  • uses paragraphing sufficiently and appropriately
Lexical resource
  • uses a wide range of vocabulary fluently and flexibly to convey precise meanings
  • skillfully uses uncommon lexical items but there may be occasional inaccuracies in word choice and collocation
  • produces rare errors in spelling and/or word formation
Grammatical range and accuracy
  • uses a wide range of structures
  • the majority of sentences are error-free
  • makes only very occasional errors or inappropriacies

As you can see, you have to tackle your essay writing with 4 main assessment criteria, but most of the video resources (Youtube or any other courses) you might be using for preparing IELTS writing helps you a lot in two criteria : Essay Structure and Task response.

So you might be thinking "I'm using English for years now and my grammar is good and spelling mistakes are also very less, why should I bother about Lexical and Grammatical Range part of criteria". but these might be the two major criteria in which you could be losing most part of your scoring.

Let's see how.

Grammatical range and accuracy​

Currently our workforce environment and social media lives force us to make our sentences concise and as simple as possible. If you have attended one of those formal presentation skills seminars, do you remember the main point : "Try to convey your idea in 4 bullets or less, people can't remember or focus on more than 4 bullet points."

Our emails are supposed to be small and to the point. so we have the habit of writing in simple straightforward sentences.

But IELTS assessment expects you to include "variety of complex structures". That's why criteria includes the word "Range" in "Grammatical range and accuracy". Lot of exam takers completely misses this part and keeps writing same types of essay with focusing only on improving "Task response".

There are following types of sentences :

  • Simple sentences
  • Compound sentences
  • Complex sentences (Subordinate clause / Correlative sentence)
  • Passive sentences
  • Question sentences
  • Conditional sentences

If you are scoring below 7.0 band in writing consistently, there is a high chance that you are not including enough of Complex sentences in your essays. EssayChecker checks different types of sentences used in Essays and let you know immediately whether you are using enough of complex sentences or not.

Lexical resource​

EssayChecker checks for spelling mistakes and word repetitions and provide suggestions for that.

Coherence and Cohesion​

Apart from above two criteria, many exam takers also miss out on Coherence and cohesion part. EssayChecker also checks your essays for use of cohesive devices and tells how good you are at cohesion.

EssayChecker gives different ways to analyze your essays. Overview section gives you quick feedback on Essay structure, Cohesion, Sentence variety, Spelling mistakes and Word repetition. Then you can dive into each criteria individually. Report/Analysis page highlights each criteria, so you can check how well you are doing or what you need to improve upon. You can also do line by line analysis to understand sentence variety part which according to us many of our students were missing upon.

Essay Reports​

Lastly, you can save each of your essay report in your account so you can track your own progress and come back to your old essays later for analysis. It also allows you access to sample essays which EssayChecker has curated for learning purpose.

We sincerely work on to improve EssayChecker regularly for more and better features at the same cost. We strive so all our exam takers can get best score without taking exams multiple times and we wish them best luck.

Please don't hesitate to reach out to us for any comment or feedback at help@essaychecker.ai

Thank you,

Team EssayChecker