Cambridge IELTS 11 Academic Writing Test 2

• Task 1: describe the chart/graph/table in your own words.
• Task 2: write an argumentative essay responding to the prompt.
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Cambridge IELTS 11 Academic Writing Test 2 opens with a Task 1 process diagram and closes with a Task 2 direct-question essay, so it stress-tests both data description and discursive argument in a single hour. Task 1 asks you to summarise the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in. Task 2 then turns to a discursive prompt: Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled.

Use the passive voice consistently and chain stages with sequencers like 'subsequently', 'once' and 'at this point' rather than counting 'firstly, secondly, thirdly'. Answer the question directly in the introduction and use each body paragraph to develop one main reason or example. Hedge sensibly with 'in many cases' or 'particularly' rather than absolutes — examiners reward measured argumentation.

Budget twenty minutes for the Task 1 report and forty for the Task 2 essay, and resist the temptation to keep polishing Task 1 once your overview and two body paragraphs are in place. On a direct-question essay, the introduction and conclusion deserve at least seven minutes of focused work between them — they frame the marker's first and last impression of your Coherence and Cohesion.

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