1 00:00:01,030 --> 00:00:09,340 ‫Now it's time for us to understand how the examiner is actually scoring us and understand how to get 2 00:00:09,340 --> 00:00:11,320 ‫those higher band scores. 3 00:00:12,490 --> 00:00:19,070 ‫By the end of this lesson, you will know what the scriptures are and how the examiner uses them. 4 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:26,550 ‫You'll also understand what criteria the examiner uses to give you your final score. 5 00:00:27,860 --> 00:00:31,190 ‫So how does the examiner give you your score? 6 00:00:31,610 --> 00:00:39,110 ‫Well, he uses these things called blunt descriptors, which tell them exactly what you need to do to 7 00:00:39,110 --> 00:00:42,340 ‫score a band six, band seven or even higher. 8 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:43,510 ‫And we'll look at them. 9 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,810 ‫Now, the first of the band descriptors is task achievement. 10 00:00:47,810 --> 00:00:54,710 ‫And that really does mean how well you can answer the question and give the main facts and information. 11 00:00:55,710 --> 00:01:03,750 ‫Next up is coherence and cohesion, which means how well you organize your answer and linked your thinking 12 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:04,410 ‫together. 13 00:01:05,630 --> 00:01:13,160 ‫Then we have lexical resource, which means how advanced your vocabulary is and how well you can use 14 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:13,440 ‫it. 15 00:01:13,910 --> 00:01:19,380 ‫And the last section of our band descriptors is grammatical range and accuracy. 16 00:01:20,150 --> 00:01:26,810 ‫Here, the examiner will be looking for you to use a range of sentence types without making too many 17 00:01:26,810 --> 00:01:27,520 ‫mistakes. 18 00:01:28,370 --> 00:01:34,000 ‫So these are the four criteria that the examiner will be looking for in your writing. 19 00:01:34,310 --> 00:01:39,710 ‫And if you can do well on all four of these sections, you'll get a high bang score. 20 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:47,630 ‫Understanding how the examiner marks, you will help you understand what skills you need to improve. 21 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:54,080 ‫Let's take a deeper look at each of these sections from the examiners and descriptors. 22 00:01:54,860 --> 00:01:59,690 ‫We'll begin by taking a look at how you have scored for task achievement. 23 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:03,140 ‫And here are the band descriptors from six to nine. 24 00:02:04,430 --> 00:02:10,440 ‫In all else tests, you were graded from zero to nine nine being the highest. 25 00:02:10,910 --> 00:02:17,300 ‫I'm going to concentrate on six, seven, eight and nine because these are generally the marks needed 26 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:20,630 ‫for people to go to university or to get a job. 27 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,700 ‫If you'd like to read through the banned descriptors, you can pause the video now. 28 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:35,410 ‫So to score high in task achievement, you must do these things, you must give a full detailed answer 29 00:02:35,470 --> 00:02:42,640 ‫to the question, you must include an overview which highlights the important information presented 30 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:43,470 ‫in the question. 31 00:02:44,140 --> 00:02:52,480 ‫You also need to make sure you highlight the key features in the data, show your report must be accurate 32 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,660 ‫and your facts are all correct. 33 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,620 ‫And lastly, you must write over a hundred and fifty words. 34 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,940 ‫Remember any less than this and you will lose marks. 35 00:03:05,030 --> 00:03:08,870 ‫Now we'll move on to the next section of the band descriptors. 36 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:19,320 ‫To score high in coherence and cohesion, you must follow these steps, you must be able to paraphrase 37 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,670 ‫effectively and will be looking at this skill a lot more later in the course. 38 00:03:24,510 --> 00:03:27,700 ‫You should be able to respond with a logical order. 39 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:35,400 ‫And again, we'll be looking at how you can order your answer the best marks you need to use, linking 40 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,820 ‫words to connect your sentences and paragraphs together. 41 00:03:39,810 --> 00:03:41,880 ‫And you need to write in paragraphs. 42 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:48,360 ‫And again, I'll show you how you can order and write in a certain structure to score the best marks. 43 00:03:49,020 --> 00:03:54,900 ‫Now let's see the band descriptors for lexical resource to score highly. 44 00:03:54,900 --> 00:04:01,440 ‫Here you must use a wide range of vocabulary and not repeat yourself too often. 45 00:04:02,310 --> 00:04:08,080 ‫There should be few errors in the use of your vocabulary and as well in your spelling. 46 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:17,190 ‫Try to use more advanced or less common vocabulary and does well understand how words appeared together. 47 00:04:17,790 --> 00:04:21,090 ‫These are called collocations, for example. 48 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:27,690 ‫Steep right quick write dramatic write collocations. 49 00:04:27,690 --> 00:04:33,960 ‫A common word pairs and they can help you to score more marks in writing task one. 50 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:42,900 ‫In grammatical range and accuracy, you must use a range of sentence types and I'll be showing you examples 51 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:43,810 ‫of these later. 52 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:47,690 ‫There should be fewer errors in your writing. 53 00:04:48,540 --> 00:04:57,270 ‫You must respond in the correct tense and you can accurately use a range of punctuation in your writing. 54 00:04:58,820 --> 00:05:08,120 ‫So these other four criteria the examiner is looking for and the more advanced you are in each of these 55 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,920 ‫criteria, the higher your score in writing task one. 56 00:05:13,930 --> 00:05:21,250 ‫Review your lesson notes, and if you feel confident, you can move on, but if you fear you may need 57 00:05:21,250 --> 00:05:28,120 ‫more time, please start the lesson again or you can use the Q&A section to ask for help. 58 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:30,780 ‫Let's move on to the next lesson.