IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 – How To Understand & Analyse Task 1 Questions
Channel: IELTS Jacky
Date: 2019-10-07

There are 5 steps to writing a good essay for Academic Writing Task 1:

1. Analyse the question
2. Identify the main features
3. Write an introduction
4. Write an overview
5. Write the details paragraphs

One of the biggest mistakes many students make is missing out the first step – analysing the question. 

They are so worried about getting their essay finished in the 20 minutes allowed for the task that they get straight down to writing without fully understanding the question. The result is an essay that fails to meet many of the marking criteria and thus achieves a low score.

It’s not difficult to analyse and understand task 1 questions once you know how and that’s what you’re going to learn in this lesson.

Here are the links I mention in the video.

How To Plan an IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 Essay:
https://www.ieltsjacky.com/ielts-academic-writing.html

Visit this web page to download a PDF of all the question checklists:
How To Understand & Analyse Task 1 Questions
https://www.ieltsjacky.com/ielts-academic-writing-task.html

Click this link to go to the writing section of my website www.ieltsjacky.com to find all the lessons on the individual question types. 
https://www.ieltsjacky.com/ielts-writing.html

You’ll also find lots more writing videos on my YouTube channel.