09/12/2021
First of all, the IELTS examiner will mark your test according to four categories: 1. Task Achievement (25%) 2. Coherence and Cohesion (25%) 3. Lexical Resource (25%) 4. Grammatical Range and Accuracy (25%) Now, what do these things mean? 1. Task achievement: this is how well you fulfil your job, how well you describe something; how much information you have included; how you have selected information that you put in your writing, and write at least 150 words. 2. Coherence and cohesion: this is how well you chose your paragraphs; how well you organize your information, and how well it flows from beginning to end. 3. Lexical resource: this means vocabulary. This is how much vocabulary
you use, and how varied, accurate and appropriate you are with your vocabulary. Spelling errors will hurt your score, misusing word forms will hurt your score. If you say “sales increasing”, it’s wrong. Instead, you must say “sales increased” 4. Grammatical range and accuracy: obviously this means “are you making grammar mistakes?”, and “are you using complex sentence structures?” if you’re just doing the same structure over and over, “sales increased” , then “sales fluctuated” and then “sales plummeted”. Ok, your grammar is accurate, but all you’re giving me is just past tense, past tense, and past tense. So you will get a good score for being accurate, but you will get a low score for using the same structure over and over. What you should be doing in task 1 is you should practice regularly. 7.0 – 8.0 for task 1 writing is very achievable because the language you use for task 1 writing is very narrow, and very limited. You don’t need to use a huge range of language.
