Level B2 (approx. band 5.5-6.5) · Academic and General Training Many candidates write until the last second and never read their essay again. Then small slips stay on the page: a missing s, a wrong tense, a sentence with no verb. Each slip is small, but together they hold down Grammatical Range and Accuracy and Lexical Resource. In this episode: • Why five minutes matter • The five-minute routine • The slips worth hunting • Word count: facts and habits • Computer and writing on paper habits • Model • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key points: • Keep about five minutes at the end to check, not to rewrite. • One read, one target: question, verbs, nouns, tense, then spelling and punctuation. • Most lost marks come from a few repeated slips, so learn your own top five. • Meet the minimum comfortably, then stop adding and start checking. • On computer, use the five-minute alert to start checking; on paper, make every correction neat and readable. IELTS Complete Course: a self-study podcast from A1 to C2 for Academic and General Training. Listen, pause and answer, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair. Independent course, not affiliated with the IELTS test owners.