I have to try once again Some time ago I passed IELTS examinations and now I'd like to share my experience. The biggest issue was a writing test, first of all because of the format - all students must write fixed volume of text by hand, no typing allowed. Then, the text must be strictly structured as follows - introduction, development, conclusion. And after all, time is limited as well, so there is no chance to prepare the text really carefully, the idea is to do it 'on-the-fly'. If anybody interested, my best score was 6.5 for writing (out of 9 maximum), which looks really poor. So now i'm here to collect a community opinion! )))