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Break the Band 6.5 Ceiling

Find the gaps and raise your Task 2 score

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Hardev Singh IELTS teacher since 2012

  • Writing Task 2
  • 349 pages
  • 25 chapters

₹399$13.99CAD 18.99AUD 20.99£9.99NZD 22.99€11.99AED 49SGD 17.99 One payment, lifetime access

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About this book

Stuck at 6.5 in Writing? Side-by-side rewrites show what moves an essay past the plateau.

Written by Hardev Singh, who has taught IELTS since 2012. About the author

Who it is for

  • Your Writing score keeps coming back as 6.5, even though your essays are fluent and well organised.
  • You need Band 7 or 7.5 for university admission, professional registration or immigration.
  • You want to find out which of the four marking criteria is holding your score down.

What is inside

25 chapters in 5 parts, 349 pages in the 6 × 9 inch print layout. The first 3 chapters are free to read in the preview.

Part 1 The Task Response Wall Position stability, balanced prompt coverage, avoiding premature conclusions, and anchoring claims to concrete evidence. 5 chapters
  1. 01 The Missing Side of the Argument Free
  2. 02 The Borrowed Body Paragraph Free
  3. 03 The Conclusion That Reverses the Body Free
  4. 04 Abstraction Without Evidence
  5. 05 The Sweeping Claim as Evidence
Part 2 The Coherence & Cohesion Wall Subtle logical progression, dismantling mechanical signposting cages, and preventing syntactic clause collapse. 5 chapters
  1. 06 The Discourse Marker That Points the Wrong Way
  2. 07 The Memorised Frame That Answers Nothing
  3. 08 The Enumerated List That Never Extends
  4. 09 Repetition Instead of Progression
  5. 10 The Sentence That Collapses Mid-Way
Part 3 The Lexical Resource Wall Natural academic collocation, eradicating near-miss coinages and mangled idioms, and cleaning orthographic slips. 5 chapters
  1. 11 The Word That Nearly Exists
  2. 12 The Malformed Idiom
  3. 13 The Right Word in the Wrong Slot
  4. 14 Small Words, Repeated
  5. 15 The Well-Organised Essay Full of Typos
Part 4 The Grammatical Range & Accuracy Wall Disciplined clause hierarchy, avoiding unpunctuated run-on sprawls, broken passives, double comparatives, and concord loss across distance. 5 chapters
  1. 16 The Run-On Sprawl
  2. 17 The Fragment Used as a Topic Sentence
  3. 18 The Broken Passive and the Broken Future
  4. 19 The Double Comparative and the Broken Conditional
  5. 20 Agreement in Long Sentences
Part 5 Compound Ceilings & The Capstone Real candidate scripts trapped by multiple interacting criteria, and the complete 4-wall capstone breakthrough. 5 chapters
  1. 21 The Safe Essay
  2. 22 The Text That Argues With Itself
  3. 23 Confident, Organised, Unsupported
  4. 24 The Self-Contradicting Body
  5. 25 The Full Upgrade: One Script, Four Walls

Also in the book: Master 25-Ceiling Diagnostic Lookup Matrix; Official Public IELTS Band Descriptors (Writing Task 2); The 14-Day Band 7.5 Action Plan.

A look inside Chapter 01

The free preview opens with “The Missing Side of the Argument”. Its sections, in order:

  1. 01 Prompt & Examiner Expectations
  2. 02 Original Candidate Submission (Band 6.0)
  3. 03 Official 4-Criteria Examiner Audit
  4. 04 Line-by-Line Autopsy & Surgical Micro-Fixes
  5. 05 Complete Exemplar Rework (Band 7.5)
  6. 06 The Examiner Golden Rule
  7. 07 Active-Recall Drill & Clinic Practice

A short sample

Taken from the free preview.

Welcome to this practical guide to solving the most frustrating problem in IELTS Writing Task 2: getting stuck at Band 6.5.

Every year, thousands of test-takers need a Band 7.0 or 7.5 for university admission, medical registration, or skilled immigration. Most of these students are not beginners. They write fluently, have a good vocabulary, organize their paragraphs neatly, and easily write over 250 words.

From “The Examiner Briefing: Breaking the Band 6.5 Ceiling”

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  • Every book includes ₹500 off a seat in Hardev Sir’s live batch.

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