IELTS Preparation Course – marking guide – WT 1	

I have used the following marking scheme when grading practice WT 1 assignments.
A – a good chance of getting a grade 6 or above
B – borderline: may get a grade 6 or above
C – unlikely to get a grade 6 or above

Key band descriptors for grades 5 and 6 (Writing Task 1)
This is an extract from the official IELTS table of band descriptors for the ten IELTS bands.
The full table is available from the IELTS web site (www.ielts.org)

	Task achievement	Coherence and cohesion	Lexical resource	Grammatical range and accuracy	
6	- addresses the requirements of the task

- presents an overview with information appropriately selected	- arranges information and ideas coherently and there is a clear overall progression

	- uses an adequate range of vocabulary for the task	- uses a mix of simple and complex sentence forms

- makes some grammatical errors but they rarely reduce communication	
5	- generally addresses the task

- recounts detail mechanically with no clear overview

	- some organization but there may be a lack of overall progression	- uses a limited range of vocabulary but this is minimally adequate for the task	- uses a limited range of structures

- frequent grammatical errors
- errors can cause some difficulty  for the reader