Common blockers for Chinese-speaking learners
The common issues are drifting position, thin development, generic examples, or mechanical linking, more than advanced words.
Many learners use a checker for a band estimate, but score-gap diagnosis needs the target blocker criterion, text evidence, and the next change to prove.
This is study evidence: official IELTS scores come from the test, and band changes depend on your revisions.
Set the long correction list aside for a moment. Ask whether the main blocker is Task Response, Coherence, vocabulary, or grammar.
Feedback that becomes a revision target is blocker repair; the rest is evaluation.
The common issues are drifting position, thin development, generic examples, or mechanical linking, more than advanced words.
Repair one target first: one introduction, one body paragraph, or five prompt-weak keywords. Leave the rest of the essay for later.
These pages explain the Banfen Writing diagnostic and blocker-repair method, Task 1 overview, Task 2 development, and common score blockers.
Submit your IELTS essay and get the main blocker, evidence, and next-version revision step first.