Cambridge IELTS 20 Academic Writing Test 4

• Task 1: describe the chart/graph/table in your own words.
• Task 2: write an argumentative essay responding to the prompt.
• On submit, AI will score you on all 4 IELTS criteria with feedback.

Cambridge IELTS 20 Academic Writing Test 4 opens with a Task 1 process diagram and closes with a Task 2 two-part question essay, so it stress-tests both data description and discursive argument in a single hour. Task 1 asks you to summarise how fabric is manufactured from bamboo. Task 2 then turns to a discursive prompt: Write about the following topic: Many aspects of the way people dress today are influenced by global fashion trends.

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.

Spend twenty minutes flat on Task 1 — five planning, twelve writing, three reviewing — and forty on Task 2, with at least five of those at the end for proofreading. Task 2 is worth twice the marks, so do not let an over-long process diagram description steal time from your essay. For band 7, the essay's argumentation matters more than the report's elegance, but a clean overview sentence in Task 1 is non-negotiable.

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