HOW TO MANAGE YOUR TIME IN TASK 2 WRITING

Time management is difficult but very important in the writing exam. It's quite easy to spend too long on one task, or even on one part of a single piece of writing. This certainly will lead to having serious consequence. This prevents you from finishing both 2 tasks of your writing within 60 minutes.

The best way to avoid this is to divide your time wisely and strictly as following:

Planning stage (10 mins):

a)       Read the question.

b)       Decide your overall opinion.

c)       Note down ideas: both arguments and evidence.

Writing stage (30 mins):

a)       Write the introduction. (5 mins)       

b)       Write the first body paragraph. (10 mins)    

c)       Write the second body paragraph. (10 mins)

d)       Write the conclusion. (5 mins)         

Checking stage (5 mins):

Read through your writing. Look for mistakes and correct them.

It might seem odd if you spend so long preparing at the beginning. Instead, you should spend only 25 minutes or so writing your essay - but remember the most important stage is actually the amount of time you are going to spend on planning before writing your essay.     

If you use this time wisely to generate plenty of good ideas, you will be able to write a good essay quickly. In contrast, if you start writing too early, there is a possibility that you will misunderstand the question, organize your information badly, fill your essay poorly or run out of ideas. Any of these things will definitely result in a low band score.

Remember that if you follow the timings above, you only need to write at a speed of ten words per minute to reach the minimum word count.