Practise reading the task, making your position clear and developing relevant ideas. Apply these choices across your complete response.
What the examiner reads for
Task Response is 25% of your Writing band.
Choose an opening that clearly signposts the requested coverage and position, then develop it across the essay.
Start the drill →Find the sentence least directly supporting a stated focus, then consider what explanation would connect an idea.
Start the drill →To what extent, discuss both views, outweigh, problem-solution, two-part — know exactly what each question type requires you to cover.
Start the drill →Tell genuine development — explain, exemplify, trace a consequence — from circular restatement dressed up in new words.
Start the drill →Understanding the criterion
Task Response concerns how the complete Task 2 essay addresses the question, explains its position and develops relevant ideas. An opening can signpost coverage; the body must carry it through. These drills practise those decisions with illustrative prompts and arguments, rather than assigning a band to an isolated sentence.
When a drill feels easy, write a full essay and see whether TR holds up under exam pressure.