Certificated IELTS examiners assess your performance on each Writing task. There are four assessment criteria (things which the examiner thinks about when deciding what score to give you):
- Task achievement/response- Coherence and cohesion- Lexical resource- Grammatical range and accuracy.
Task achievement (in Task 1) and Task response (in Task 2) assesses how accurately, appropriately and relevantly your response covers the task requirements, using the minimum of 150 words for Task 1 and 250 words for Task 2.
In Task 1, all the information you require is given in the diagram.
In Task 2, Task response includes how well you develop your argument in response to the task, giving evidence and examples which may be from your own experience.
Coherence and cohesion assesses how clear and fluent your writing is, and how you organize ideas and information. It includes giving your ideas in a logical order, and using a range of cohesive devices (for example, linking words, pronouns and conjunctions, etc.) appropriately.
Grammatical range and accuracy assesses the range of grammar you have used and how accurately and appropriately you have used it.
for more information about assessment on IELTS writing, you can see at the links below:
Sources:
www.ielts.org
FutureLearn: Understanding IELTS by British council
