IELTS writing diagnosis your teachers don't have to hand-mark
Your students write the essays; your teachers spend their most expensive hours marking them, one criterion at a time. IELTS Examiner takes the first pass instead: every essay is diagnosed against the four official IELTS criteria, with the capping criterion named, the evidence quoted from the student's own text, and a repair path laid out — so your teachers review and advise instead of hand-marking from a blank page.
The problem: marking is your most expensive teaching hour
Most IELTS students plateau at 6.5 in Writing while everything else on their file is ready. The half band between 6.5 and 7.0 — for General Training candidates, often the CLB 9 line — is where retakes, delays and refund requests breed. Closing it the traditional way means a teacher reading every practice essay closely, criterion by criterion, week after week.
That is the least scalable hour in your operation: marking quality varies by teacher and by fatigue, feedback arrives days late, and the student's next essay is usually written before the last one's comments have even been read. The bottleneck is not your teachers' knowledge — it is that every essay's first pass is still done entirely by hand.
How it works inside your school
Each student sends in their Task 1 or Task 2 essay as part of your package — the same writing they would hand to a teacher today. Nothing about how your courses run has to change.
Every essay is graded against the four official criteria — Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. The report names the single criterion capping the student's band, quotes the exact sentences where marks are lost, and turns the finding into a focused repair plan of targeted drills.
Teachers and counsellors receive the finished report to review with the student: explain the cap, choose the drills, answer questions. The judgement work stays with your team; the repetitive first pass does not.
What every report contains
A report is not a score with a compliment attached. For each essay it gives a band for each of the four criteria and an overall band; the one criterion capping the score, stated plainly; evidence quoted from the student's own sentences rather than generic advice; a rewrite of the weakest passage showing what the higher band looks like; and drills matched to the cap, so practice between lessons works on the thing that is actually costing marks.
Because every essay is measured against the same descriptors, reports stay consistent across classes and teachers — a student who changes groups keeps the same yardstick, and you can see across a whole cohort which single criterion is costing your school the most retakes.
Two ways to work together
Recommend the Prep subscription ($14/month) to students who need ongoing grading and earn 50% of every payment. The split runs on Gumroad: share your personal link and the platform tracks each sale, splits the revenue and pays your 50% directly — no invoicing, no spreadsheets, no chasing anyone, and the money never passes through us. Refunds are reversed on both sides by the platform, so neither of us keeps money that did not stay.
If you would rather have diagnosis built into your package than send students to a checkout, the institution pilot is $199/month, with a block of client diagnosis seats provisioned by our team within 24 hours of sign-up. It is a pilot: the seat count and exact terms are set together around your actual student volume. We do not pretend a fixed quota fits every school, and we will not promise terms that have not been agreed with you in writing.
See the output first
Two tools are yours to use with students today at no cost: the sample library, which shows the same IELTS task answered at Band 6.0, 6.5, 7.0 and 7.5 side by side, and the IELTS to CLB · CRS calculator, which you can embed on your own site or hand to clients weighing up a retake. Both are linked from this page.
Apply for the schools pilot
Tell us roughly how many students you coach and how essays are marked today. We reply with pilot terms sized to your volume — or, if the affiliate route fits you better, with your 50% link.
Questions from schools and agencies
No. It replaces the first pass — the slow, repetitive reading of every essay against four criteria. Your teachers still explain, coach and make the final judgement calls with students; they simply start from a finished diagnostic report instead of a blank page.
Every essay is graded against the same four official IELTS criteria and band descriptors an examiner uses, with the evidence quoted from the student's own text so your teachers can audit any call. Treat it as a calibrated first reading: where your teachers disagree with a report, that disagreement is exactly what the review step is for.
A block of diagnosis seats for your students at $199/month, provisioned manually by our team within 24 hours of sign-up. The seat count is agreed with you before you pay, based on your student volume — it is a pilot, so the terms are sized to your school rather than picked from a fixed menu.
The output is public: the sample library shows full graded reports on the same task at Band 6.0, 6.5, 7.0 and 7.5, and the embeddable calculator is free to use. Diagnosis of your own students' essays is the paid product itself — there is no free trial run of it.
You share your personal Gumroad link; when a student buys the Prep subscription through it, Gumroad tracks the sale, splits the revenue and pays your 50% directly on its normal payout cycle. There is no invoicing and the money never passes through us; if a payment is refunded, the commission on it is reversed by the platform as well.