‫Now it's time for us to understand how the examiner is actually scoring us and understand how to get
‫those higher band scores.
‫By the end of this lesson, you will know what the scriptures are and how the examiner uses them.
‫You'll also understand what criteria the examiner uses to give you your final score.
‫So how does the examiner give you your score?
‫Well, he uses these things called blunt descriptors, which tell them exactly what you need to do to
‫score a band six, band seven or even higher.
‫And we'll look at them.
‫Now, the first of the band descriptors is task achievement.
‫And that really does mean how well you can answer the question and give the main facts and information.
‫Next up is coherence and cohesion, which means how well you organize your answer and linked your thinking
‫together.
‫Then we have lexical resource, which means how advanced your vocabulary is and how well you can use
‫it.
‫And the last section of our band descriptors is grammatical range and accuracy.
‫Here, the examiner will be looking for you to use a range of sentence types without making too many
‫mistakes.
‫So these are the four criteria that the examiner will be looking for in your writing.
‫And if you can do well on all four of these sections, you'll get a high bang score.
‫Understanding how the examiner marks, you will help you understand what skills you need to improve.
‫Let's take a deeper look at each of these sections from the examiners and descriptors.
‫We'll begin by taking a look at how you have scored for task achievement.
‫And here are the band descriptors from six to nine.
‫In all else tests, you were graded from zero to nine nine being the highest.
‫I'm going to concentrate on six, seven, eight and nine because these are generally the marks needed
‫for people to go to university or to get a job.
‫If you'd like to read through the banned descriptors, you can pause the video now.
‫So to score high in task achievement, you must do these things, you must give a full detailed answer
‫to the question, you must include an overview which highlights the important information presented
‫in the question.
‫You also need to make sure you highlight the key features in the data, show your report must be accurate
‫and your facts are all correct.
‫And lastly, you must write over a hundred and fifty words.
‫Remember any less than this and you will lose marks.
‫Now we'll move on to the next section of the band descriptors.
‫To score high in coherence and cohesion, you must follow these steps, you must be able to paraphrase
‫effectively and will be looking at this skill a lot more later in the course.
‫You should be able to respond with a logical order.
‫And again, we'll be looking at how you can order your answer the best marks you need to use, linking
‫words to connect your sentences and paragraphs together.
‫And you need to write in paragraphs.
‫And again, I'll show you how you can order and write in a certain structure to score the best marks.
‫Now let's see the band descriptors for lexical resource to score highly.
‫Here you must use a wide range of vocabulary and not repeat yourself too often.
‫There should be few errors in the use of your vocabulary and as well in your spelling.
‫Try to use more advanced or less common vocabulary and does well understand how words appeared together.
‫These are called collocations, for example.
‫Steep right quick write dramatic write collocations.
‫A common word pairs and they can help you to score more marks in writing task one.
‫In grammatical range and accuracy, you must use a range of sentence types and I'll be showing you examples
‫of these later.
‫There should be fewer errors in your writing.
‫You must respond in the correct tense and you can accurately use a range of punctuation in your writing.
‫So these other four criteria the examiner is looking for and the more advanced you are in each of these
‫criteria, the higher your score in writing task one.
‫Review your lesson notes, and if you feel confident, you can move on, but if you fear you may need
‫more time, please start the lesson again or you can use the Q&A section to ask for help.
‫Let's move on to the next lesson.