THE METHOD
You have already studied, that is not the problem.
Your three other scores prove your English works, but what is holding your Writing down is a small number of things you do in every essay, under pressure, without knowing you are doing them. A normal course cannot see them, because it was written before you arrived.
So we start with your essay, every time. We find the five things costing you the most marks, send you to a short lesson for each one, and then check them in your next piece of writing.
Find. Learn. Check. That's what we do.
Think about learning to drive. Your instructor says you are turning corners too late. You understand, and the lesson ends - but nothing changes, because you did not have a chance to practice turning again.
Now imagine she says it, and then you drive around the block and turn again while she watches. That is when it changes. You were told, and then you got the chance to do it better while it was still fresh.
That is what happens here. We tell you what is wrong, then you write again, and we look at the same thing to see if it changed.
That full cycle is what we sell. In every programme on this site the proof is the same: your draft 1 measured, your draft 2 measured, and the difference in front of you.
Write
You submit a real Task 1 or Task 2 response, on a real prompt.
Diagnose, in minutes
Your writing is scored against the four IELTS criteria: Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy. . The report names the five issues doing the most damage to your band, in order, each one shown with a quotation from your own writing. It also names five things you already do well.
Train
Each coded issue routes you to the lesson that trains it. If your report codes a missing Task 1 overview, you get the overview lesson.
Rewrite
Not an edit of draft 1. A new question of the same task type, with the fixes applied, because the skill has to work on a question you have never seen, exactly what happens on test day.
Measure again
The second report compares the two drafts, code by code: what persisted, what improved, from all your previous work.
Not just scores, but guidance
AI checkers gives you a band score, but that number changes nothing. Writing is something you do, under pressure, in 60 minutes. Knowing your level does not change what you do - only training does.
A checker measures you. We train you. That is the whole difference.
IELTS Laboratory is built and run by Will Salisbury, MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics, doctoral researcher in education. He built the 50-code taxonomy and he runs the live sessions himself.
Corrections on every line feel thorough and change nothing. Your score is capped by a small number of repeated issues. Fix the two or three that repeat and the band moves. The rest of your English is not the reason for your score, and time spent on it is time you do not have.