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Thank to your useful advice and I completely agree with you, I often don’t give a detail number in my essays

I think all of your points are valid.

…examples don’t have to be THAT specific. You could just simply say, something like:

“Many studies over the last few decades have shown a close correlation between smoking and lung disease.”
or
“Several studies into the use of statins have shown that it can reduce cholesterol levels and thus reduce the risk of heart attacks.”

I see 3 problems with using fictional studies:

1. The task tells you to include relevant examples from “your own knowledge or experience”. If the fictional study is obviously fictional, the examiner might mark you down for Task Response.

2. If the example is too specific, it might also be less relevant to the main idea. I recently marked an essay asking whether people were born with criminal tendencies (hat crime was genetic) or if criminal tendencies were developed in later life – the student used Adolf Hitler as an example, making the argument that since Hitler came from a good family, criminal tendencies must be developed in later life. I thought this example was too extreme, and so it didn’t properly support the main idea.

(By the way, the question itself was a bad one – it came from one of those dodgy IELTS materials sites!)

3. Using a fictional study gives you too much opportunity to use irrelevant extra words! IELTS examiners should mark you down on this.

Take your second example:

“Based on a new finding by Prof. John Turin, a foremost neurologist from UNSW, published in July edition of Australian Cancer Society journal, 24% patients were cured as a result of the cutting edge medicine. ”

It’s 35 words long! It sounds like an IELTS candidate padding out their word count with needless details.

A better way of wording this would be:

“A recent study found that 24% of patients had been cured as a result of this cutting-edge medicine.”

What’s your view on this, Christopher?