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    IELTS Summarizer

    Practise summary skills: condense any passage the way IELTS Reading and Writing demand.

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    How it works

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      Paste a passage: an IELTS Reading text or any article works.

    2. 2

      Read the one-sentence summary and check it against your own understanding of the main claim.

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      Study the paraphrase spotlight: passage phrase vs. restated phrase is the tested skill made visible.

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      Then write your own 60-word summary before reading the tool's, and compare.

    Good to know

    Main claim first, always

    Weak summaries retell the text in order; strong ones lead with the claim everything else serves. IELTS builds whole question types on this distinction: matching headings asks for each paragraph's claim, and summary-completion tasks reward knowing which sentences carry argument versus example. The tool's structure (claim → points → paragraph) enforces the hierarchy so you internalize reading for argument, not sequence.

    Paraphrase or it doesn't count

    In academic contexts, a summary that reuses the source's sentences is quotation without quotation marks. In IELTS specifically, the test's summary tasks choose answers that are synonyms of the passage's wording, so practising restatement is literally practising the answer key. The paraphrase spotlight in every result exists to make that synonym mapping explicit rather than incidental.

    Questions

    How is this different from the general Summarizer?
    The general Summarizer optimizes for a clean, usable summary at your chosen length. The IELTS Summarizer optimizes for teaching the skill: it shows paragraph references, restates rather than compresses, and includes the paraphrase mini-lesson. Use this one to study, that one to process reading material.
    What should I paste into it?
    IELTS Academic Reading passages (or their difficulty level: The Economist, BBC Future, science journalism). The tool works on anything, but the skill transfers best when the source matches exam register.
    Why 60 to 90 words for the summary paragraph?
    It's the length that forces choices: long enough to need structure, short enough that examples and repetition must be cut. It also matches the compression level IELTS summary-completion tasks operate at.
    Can it help with Writing Task 2 as well?
    Indirectly, yes: summarizing model essays down to their argument skeletons is one of the best ways to study structure. You see the position, the two reasons, and the concession with all the prose stripped away.