IELTS prep, honestly
The LinguaRocket blog.
Straight answers on IELTS scoring, strategy and the Academic-vs-General question — from the team that marks your practice honestly. No gimmicks, no band-9-in-a-week promises.
Strategy
True / False / Not Given: the rule that fixes most wrong answers
Why 'Not Given' trips up band-7 candidates, and a repeatable way to tell it apart from 'False'.
Aug 9, 2026 · 6 min readBandsHow many questions do you need right for each IELTS band?
The raw-score-to-band idea for Listening and Reading (Academic & GT), and why '40 questions' doesn't mean 40 marks to worry about.
Aug 9, 2026 · 5 min readChoosing your testIELTS Academic vs General Training: which one do you actually need?
They share Listening and Speaking but differ on Reading and Writing Task 1. A 2-minute decision guide by goal — study, work, or migration.
Aug 9, 2026 · 6 min readScoringHow is IELTS Writing scored? The 4 criteria, and what moves you from band 6 to 7
The exact rubric examiners use — Task Achievement, Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammar — and the one change per criterion that lifts your band.
Aug 9, 2026 · 8 min read