The trickiest questions in the bank — multi-part prompts, scope traps, and themes that punish over-generalisation. Use them once Band 7 feels comfortable and you need a harder ceiling.
What a 7.5+ demands
What Band 7.5+ looks like
A Band 7.5 or Band 8 essay shows a wide range of complex structures with the majority of sentences error-free, uses uncommon lexical items skilfully, and develops a position fully with extended, supported ideas. These questions are the trickier ones in the bank: multi-part questions, scope traps, and themes that punish over-generalisation. Use them when Band 7 has become comfortable and you need a harder ceiling.
Attempt one Band 7.5+ question a day. Each grading shows which criterion is holding you under the cap.