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Can evaluate different ideas or solutions
Candidates’ performance is assessed across four categories:
1)
Content/Task achievement – 10 points
2)
Coherency – 5 points
3)
Syntax – 5 points
4)
Vocabulary – 5 points
Content
Coherency
Contextually correct
Almost error-free
Genuine effort
to write like a native
speaker
10
Smooth flow
Very good transition
Appropriate punctuation
5
Comprehensible, generally correct
Occasional error
8
Good use of transition, flow
Each clause fits within context
4
Frequent errors that confuse reader and
require guessing at meaning
Obvious translation
from English that is
difficult to follow
6
Choppy
Visibly translated
Comprehensible
3
Errors interfere with comprehensibility
4
Many restatements of same information
Uses language significantly below
expected level
2
Most clauses contain errors
Many phrases are incomprehensible
Fails to communicate main ideas
2
Inappropriate phrases, isolated
words
Uses unrelated vocabulary
1
No response
Does not fit topic
0
Incomprehensible
No response
0
Syntax
Vocabulary
No grammatical errors
5
Very good; wide range
Uses appropriate
and new words and
expressions
Interesting response
5
Few syntax errors
Minor errors that do not impede
communication
4
Good, appropriate vocabulary
Generally good response
4
Frequent errors
3
Vocabulary is
just adequate to respond
No attempt to vary expressions
Basic
3
Many errors (agreement, verb forms)
Errors in basic structures
Errors impede communication
2
Inadequate vocabulary or incorrect use
of lexical items
Communication difficult
2
14
Most
structures incorrect
Constant use of infinitive; no conjugation
Reader understands only because of past
experience
1
Incomplete sentences or fragments
Vocabulary repeated
Inappropriate vocabulary
1
No attempt
Indecipherable
or illegible response
0
No attempt
Totally irrelevant answer
0
