This document provides assessment criteria for writing Task-1, including task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy. It defines each criteria, such as task achievement requiring a clear overall trend supported by the most important information from diagrams. Coherence and cohesion refer to how well a text fits together and connects ideas. Lexical resource assesses vocabulary range, spelling, tone, collocations and synonyms. Grammatical range examines the use of simple, compound and complex sentences as well as passive voice.

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Writing Task-1
Assessment Criteria
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2. Assessment Criteria
Task Achievement
Coherence & Cohesion
Lexical Resource
Grammatical Range & Accuracy

3. Task Achievement
You must provide a clear overall trend.
You have to support this trend with
the most important information from the
diagram or map(s).
Don’t copy the test question-paraphrase
it

4. Coherence & Cohesion
When something has coherence,
all of its parts fit together well.
Coherence:
The act or state of sticking
together tightly
Cohesion

5. Coherence:
The ways a text makes sense to readers &
writer through the relevance and accessibility
of its configuration of concepts, ideas and
theories.
Cohesion:
The grammatical and lexical relationship
between different elements of a text which
hold it together.

6. Lexical Resource
What it is:
The range of vocabulary which you use
accurately for conveying your intended
meanings. The wider your range, the higher
your score.

7. The aspects of vocabulary will be assessed:
Spelling
Range
Tone
Topic-related
Synonyms
Collocations

8. Grammatical Range & Accuracy
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence: FANBOYS
Complex Sentence: When, while, whilst
Whereas, until, after, before,though etc.
Passive Sentence

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