{"id":551,"date":"2020-11-27T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:36:21","slug":"how-to-count-words-in-ielts-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/how-to-count-words-in-ielts-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to count words in IELTS Writing? ( IELTS Writing Word Counting)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per the rule, you need to write 150 words in IELTS Writing task 1 and 250 words in IELTS Writing task 2. There is no upper limit you can write 500 words in task 1 and 1000 words in task 2 but it is totally up to you. I would never recommend that at all. Try to write maximum of 170 words in IELTS Writing task 1 and 270 words in IELTS Writing task 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But the question is still How to count the words??<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mostly students are counting words one after one but this is the worse method to do so. You can do it in even simple way. Let me explain it with a simple example Look at the paragraph mentioned below<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ielts-word-count-example-1-1024x232.jpeg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ielts-word-count-example-1-1024x232.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ielts-word-count-example-1-300x68.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ielts-word-count-example-1-768x174.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ielts-word-count-example-1-360x82.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ielts-word-count-example-1.jpeg 1103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In the above-mentioned paragraph there are in total 51 words but let\u2019s try it with another method count words in one line and then multiply it with total lines <strong>( 12 words in 1 line and total 4 lines = 48 words)<\/strong> Now this is a more simple method, there is a difference of <strong>3 words<\/strong> but it\u2019s not that high.<\/p>\n<p>If you want perfect IELTS essay evaluation download UtterMost: IELTS Preparation app where you will get cheapest essay evaluation or in some cases free. <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.niravgohel.ielts.speaking.reading.writing.vocabulary.listening&amp;referrer=utm_source%3DIeltsbooster%26utm_medium%3DWebsite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to download<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the rule, you need to write 150 words in IELTS Writing task 1 and 250 words in IELTS Writing task 2. There is no upper limit you can write 500 words in task 1 and 1000 words in <a href=\"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/how-to-count-words-in-ielts-writing\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[]},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[40,37,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieltsbooster.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}