 Chris here from IELTS Advantage. And in this lesson, we're going to show you our band nine idea generation system using these two diagrams. This is going to ensure that you think of a band nine or very high band idea quickly and easily and give the examiners exactly what they're looking for. So I'm gonna explain what these letters mean. And we're going to use this question to help us demonstrate this system. So many people start their own business rather than work for someone else. Why do they do that? We're just going to use a simple question to demonstrate this system. So R is relevant. Is your idea relevant or not? In other words, does it directly answer the question or not? And here we have the opposite, which is irrelevant. Here we have specific and here we have vague. Specific means in terms of idea generation, does it mean just one thing? Or vague, it could mean many different things. It's uncertain what it really means. Specific, it only really means one thing. So let's look at some examples for this question. So why do people start their own business? Well, many people start it to earn more money. This is very relevant because if you asked, you know, a hundred business owners, why did you start your own business? At least 50% or close to 90% of them would say I wanted to earn more money. An irrelevant idea would be something like a regular salary. Now you don't start your own business to get a regular salary. This is an example of this idea of someone misunderstanding the question or just reading the question too quickly and not really understanding it. You get a regular job working for someone else, working for a company because you want a regular salary. You don't start your own business for this. So this idea is totally irrelevant. Now another idea that is very specific, more free time. Many people start their own business because they don't want to work nine to five, they want more freedom and more free time. This is very, very specific because it can only mean one thing. But if we had a very vague idea like have a better life, many students write ideas like this, like have a better life to improve something. In what way? More money, more time, more freedom, higher quality of life, what do you really want? So this is very vague and this is very irrelevant. This is kind of the danger zone. You don't want to be anywhere around here. Where you want to be is in and around here. A relevant idea that is specific. This is giving the examiners exactly what they want. Now let's move over here. Simple, complicated, explainable, unexplainable. So we're gonna take this one. More money. Is it simple? Is it easy to understand? Is it easy for you to understand? And more importantly, is it easy for the examiner to understand? Another way to think about this is if you could talk to 100 people and say people start their own businesses to earn more money, right? Do you agree? Would they understand what you're talking about? Would they agree with you? Most people would. That is a very simple idea. And simple is good. Complicated, some people start their own business for tax advantages. This is a correct idea, but it's a very, very complicated idea. And it would require a lot of explanation, a lot of examples, and only really people who are experts in this field, it's a very complicated field, would be able to write an effective essay in 40 minutes on this topic. So it is correct, but it is very, very complicated. The simpler your answer, the easier it is going to be for you to write about it and for the examiner to understand it. So let's say we decided to go with this one, more free time. More free time, many business owners do start their own business because they want more free time. However, once you start to think about it, it is very difficult to explain how starting your own business leads to more free time. If anything, and I'm talking from experience here, I've never met a business owner that starts their own business and automatically has lots of free time. So when you start to think about this idea, you cannot explain it. And this is where people get lost. So they think of an idea, they think, yeah, it's relevant, yeah, it's specific, but I can't explain it. So they start to write and then they realize they can't think of any explanations, any examples, but this one, more money, it's very easy for people to explain how owning your own business leads to more money. So this, again, is the zone that you want to be in. Relevant, specific, simple, and explainable. You can explain it easily. You can think of an example. This zone here, again, this is the dead zone. You don't want to have an idea that you don't really understand. It's very, very complicated. And then you're going to get lost. So another way to think about this is you want a relevant idea that answers the question. It should be specific. It only means one thing. It's not vague. It is simple for you to think of and simple for you to understand and the examiner to understand. And you can explain it easily. This is the zone you want to be in if you want a very high band. And really the starting point is to look at the question, directly answer the question, and try and think of the simplest idea. What's the first idea that pops into your head? Or what is the most popular or common or straightforward idea? That idea will normally be easily to explain automatically and it will normally be very, very specific, which will automatically put you into this zone and make thinking of very high level ideas easy and simple. And you can generate them very, very quickly. So I hope you enjoyed that lesson. I'll put a link below for one of our free writing courses that goes into idea generation plus how to write your essay in a lot more detail. I'll put that below in the description. 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