Paste your essay, get a band score in nine seconds, and see the exact sentences holding you back. No tutor, no waiting, no guessing.
Your essay
The difference
You can write fifty essays. Without someone marking them against the real descriptors, you repeat the same four mistakes fifty times.
How it works
Each one targets a specific criterion the examiner scores you on. Nothing here is decoration.
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Most checkers tell you "grammar needs work." Bandly quotes the clause, explains the rule in one line, and shows the corrected version so you can see the difference instead of decoding it.
In conclusion, I completely agree that governments must prioritise public transport. Such investment would ease congestion and, in the same time, cut urban emissions substantially.
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Your dashboard tracks each criterion across every essay you submit. When lexical resource is the one holding you back, that is the only thing we ask you to work on this week.
Focus this week: lexical resource. Three drills queued.
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Generic word lists do not stick. Bandly pulls the words you actually overuse and offers the Band 8 alternative in the context you wrote it, which is the only way it survives to exam day.
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Blank page panic costs more bands than grammar does. Enter any prompt and get two arguments per side with supporting examples, so you spend your 40 minutes writing rather than staring.
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Writing is the section most people lose points on, but it is not the only one. Every plan comes with the speaking course, the full test simulator, and the vocabulary handbook at no extra cost.
Results
Scores below are self reported by students who sent us their result slip.
I sat the test three times and stayed at 6.5 every time. Two weeks of marked essays showed me I was writing the same conclusion structure that capped my task response. Got 7.5.
The rewritten sentences are what made it click. Seeing my own bad sentence next to the fixed one taught me more than a month of grammar videos.
My tutor cost 45 dollars an hour and gave me one essay back per week. This gave me twelve in a weekend for the price of a coffee.
Lexical resource was the thing dragging me down and I had no idea. The dashboard put it in red on day one. Everything else I was already doing fine.
The predicted band was within half a point of my real result. That alone was worth it, because I stopped booking the test hoping for the best.
I needed 7 in each band for my visa and writing was the only one missing. Six days, eleven essays, and it was done.
Timed mode is underrated. I always ran out of time on Task 2 and never practiced with a clock until this made me.
English is my third language and most feedback tools were too vague to act on. This one told me exactly which article rule I keep breaking.
Went from 6.0 to 7.5 in a month. The part that changed things was the idea generator, because my problem was never grammar, it was having nothing to say.
I bought the yearly plan on a Tuesday and had my Band 8 result the following month. Cheapest thing in my whole application.
Pricing
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Submit at least five essays, follow the feedback, and if your practice band has not moved, email us within 7 days for a full refund. No form, no questions.
Questions
Yes. Your first essay is scored in full with no card required, including the band breakdown and every correction. You only pay when you want to submit more.
The model is calibrated on thousands of essays with known official results, scored against the published band descriptors. In our validation set it lands within half a band of the official result on most essays. Treat it as a reliable practice signal, not a guarantee of your exam day score.
Task 2 for both Academic and General, Academic Task 1 including charts, tables, maps and processes, and General Task 1 letters across all three registers.
No. Every plan is unlimited. Students who improve the most usually submit between eight and fifteen essays over two weeks.
Yes. Paste any prompt, including one from a book or a past paper, and the essay is marked against it. You can also pull from our library of 1,400 recently reported topics.
Both. Every correction comes with the rule behind it and the rewritten version, and your dashboard tracks which criterion is holding you back so each week has one clear focus rather than a general instruction to write more.
A grammar checker fixes errors. It has no idea what a Band 7 essay looks like, so it will happily approve a grammatically perfect essay that scores 5.5 for underdeveloped ideas. Bandly marks structure, argument development, cohesion and range, which is where most of your lost points are.
No. It runs in the browser on phone, tablet and laptop. Most students draft on paper, type it in, and read the feedback on their phone.
Email us within 7 days of purchase and we refund in full, usually the same day. You keep any feedback reports you already generated.
No. Bandly is an independent study tool built on the publicly available band descriptors. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Cambridge, the British Council, or IDP Education.
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