About IELTS Personal Trainer
A specialist IELTS Writing assessment service. Marking is done by an IELTS specialist with 17 years of live examining experience — no AI, no shortcuts, no recycled feedback.
What this service is
IELTS Personal Trainer is a focused Writing assessment service for candidates preparing for the IELTS Academic or General Training test. You submit a Task 1 or Task 2 essay. Within 48 hours you receive a six-section diagnostic report: a band estimate against the four public criteria, an annotated copy of your essay, a Band 8 model answer with the features you should copy, your top three priorities to work on, and a two-week study plan based on what your essay actually shows.
The report is the product. Not a band score. Not a one-line comment. A full diagnostic that tells you exactly what is keeping you below your target band, and what to do about it this week.
Who marks your essay
Every essay is marked by an IELTS specialist with 17 years of live examining experience. The same person marks every essay — no team, no rotating contractors, no offshore reviewers. The marking standard is the public IELTS band descriptors, applied criterion by criterion, with the same calibration used in live examining.
The brand is intentionally anonymous. There is no founder photo, no signed report. This is a deliberate choice that reflects the constraints of working in the IELTS profession, and it is permanent. Trust this service through the work, not the face. The sample report is public, the diagnostic is detailed and specific, and the feedback is grounded in the same descriptors used in the real exam.
What you actually get
- A band estimate for each of the four criteria — Task Achievement, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy — plus an overall band, with the descriptor language that supports each estimate.
- An annotated copy of your essay with inline corrections and right-column notes that explain why each change was made.
- A "why you got this band — and how to reach the next one" section, with the specific sentence patterns and structures that will lift you.
- A Band 8 model answer written to your exact prompt, with a "four features to copy" callout that explains what is making the model work.
- Your top three priorities for the next week, drawn from your essay's actual weaknesses, not from a list of generic IELTS advice.
- A 14-day study plan, split into Day 1–7 and Day 8–14, built around fixing the three priorities above.
Who this is for
This service exists for the candidate who has hit a plateau and needs to know why. You have written essays. You have submitted them to free tools and free groups. You have received band estimates that disagreed with each other. You are running out of time before the test, and what you need is one accurate, honest, actionable read on your writing from someone who marks for a living.
If that's you, the report will pay for itself in the time you stop wasting on the wrong practice.
Who this is not for
This service is not the right fit if you are below Band 5 overall — at that level, foundational instruction will help you more than diagnostic feedback. It is also not the right fit if you only want a band score with no explanation. Other services do that more cheaply. The whole point of this report is the why.
The principles behind the marking
No AI
Your essay is read and marked by a person. No part of your essay is fed into an AI tool to generate the band or the feedback. AI marking tools collapse on the criteria that matter most — Task Response and Coherence — because those criteria require reading for argument, not pattern-matching. We won't pretend otherwise to save time.
Grounded in the public descriptors
Every band estimate is supported by quoted descriptor language from the public IELTS band descriptors. This isn't a vibe-mark. If the report says your essay sits at Band 6 for Coherence and Cohesion, you'll see the exact descriptor sentence that places it there.
Specific over generic
Every report comments on your essay. The "to reach Band 6.5" actions point to actual sentences in your writing. The Band 8 model is written to your prompt. The 14-day plan reflects what your essay revealed, not what a typical candidate at your band needs.
How to start
The home page has two paths. If you have already written an essay at home and want it marked, choose "I've already written an essay" and upload it. If you want a task prompt to write to, choose "Give me a task" and we'll serve you one. Either way, the diagnostic report is the same.