<blockquote rel="penski516">Anyone here who got at least an 8 in writing? Could you share some tips naman po please...
I'm really meaning to land an 8 in writing to claim my needed points. It would be great to hear from the folks who have already succeeded on this. Thanks in advance!</blockquote>
Practice on making good paragraphs when you study. Remember, IELTS Writing Task 2 is about ideas and opinions. A good band score will depend on your main paragraphs - how you present and defend your ideas and opinions. And you can do this only when you master forming and writing a paragraph for high band scores...
When you master writing paragraphs, making an essay is easy. Just follow an essay plan to stitch up together your paragraphs.
Then you can think about varied vocabulary and sentence constructions after....
I used simon-ielts' wrting task 2 from his website. You can get good ideas on how to write high scoring paragraphs.