Your writing report
The report is what a marker made of your essay. It arrives in up to a minute, and you do not have to wait on the page for it.
The three states
Marking. "Reading your response" with an indeterminate bar. You can close the tab — the marking finishes without you and the report is there when you come back.
Failed. Marking errored. Your response is saved and nothing is lost, and there is a Mark it again button.
A failed run has never counted against your weekly marks
Retrying costs you nothing. The mark was charged when you started the attempt, and a run that failed did not consume a second one.
Done. The report itself.
What is in it
An overall band, shown against the 0–9 scale. It is the mean of the four criteria, rounded to the nearest half band — not a separate judgement layered on top of them.
The four criteria, each with its own band and a comment saying what earned it:
- Task Response
- Coherence and Cohesion
- Lexical Resource
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Annotations — between four and eight short extracts, quoted verbatim from your own essay, each marked as one of:
| Mark | Means |
|---|---|
| Works well | Do more of this |
| Error | A concrete mistake, named |
| Needs support | A claim that goes undeveloped |
Every quote is checked against your essay before you see it, and any the marker produced that is not literally in your text is dropped. A missing annotation is better than an invented one.
Strengths and weaknesses, as short lists.
What the report is not
It is an estimate produced by a language model reading against the published band descriptors. It is not an IELTS score, and no examiner has seen your essay. Two markings of the same essay can differ slightly, which is worth remembering before reading much into a half-band move between two essays.
The thing to act on is not the number. It is the lowest criterion and the comment attached to it — that comment is what your study plan reads to name your next writing task.