Never start the task without carefully analyzing it spend few minutes carefully planning and spend some time making notes.
Use of Paragraphs is very important especially in Task 2 ,typically you should explain 1 idea with supporting examples/ reasoning in one paragraph.
You should not copy complete sentences / question rubric from paper you will receive no marks for this and words written would not count towards the minimum word length of 250.
You must not repeat ideas , as it shows poor task attempt and you would lose points for this.
You should keep focus to the topic; writing about unrelated topic could be penalized, also you must use formal language only.
spend approximately 20 minutes on Task 1 and approximately 40 minutes on Task 2.
You must write at least 150 words for Task 1 and at least 250 words for Task 2; writing less than the limit would attract penalty.
Keep some time in the end; ideally about 3-4 minutes to re-read and correct your answers.