Cambridge IELTS 20 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 20 Academic Writing Test 2 runs a Task 1 process diagram and then a Task 2 two-part question essay, which means switching registers from analytical neutrality to confident argument inside the same hour. Task 1 asks you to summarise the site of a farm in 1950 and the same site today. Task 2 then turns to a discursive prompt: Write about the following topic: In many countries, primary and secondary schools close for two months or more in the summer holidays.

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 two questions in order with one body paragraph each. The introduction should paraphrase both questions and signal the structure; the conclusion should answer both, not merely summarise the prompt.

Twenty minutes on Task 1 means committing to your groupings within the first five — do not change your structure halfway through. Task 2 needs forty disciplined minutes: ten to plan and outline, twenty-six to write, four to edit. On a two-part question essay, the conclusion is the only place the examiner reads your final position with full attention, so write it last and write it deliberately.

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