When you are writing Part 1 of the IELTs writing test, one of the examiner’s marking criteria is Task Achievement. This criteria can often be the one which causes candidates to lose points in their writing.
So what does ‘’task achievement’’ mean and how can you score well on this? Task achievement is how fully you cover the main points in the question. This could be for example, the main trends for a graph question, the main stages for a process question, or the three bullet points in a General Training letter. Let’s look at each in turn. Let’s say for the Academic IELTS writing, you need to describe population data for Britain, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore from a line graph. Each of the four countries would need to be mentioned in your answer or you could risk losing task achievement marks. This would bring your score down under band 6. Look for the main trends too and make sure you describe them. If you miss a main trend or don’t support it with data, you can score under band 6 for task achievement. For Part 1 process questions in the Academic Writing paper, you must be sure to mention all the steps in the process question. For example, if the diagram shows the process of recycling glass, you should write about each step – even just a sentence is fine. For the General Training letter, normally there will be three clear bullet points. You need to mention each of these in your letter, or points will be lost by not effectively achieving the task. You don’t need to write the same amount for each point; just cover the three points. If you are careful to cover the main points, then you are on the road to achieving band 6 or above. Have a look at Task Achievement in the public band descriptors below http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/IELTS_task_1_Writing_band_descriptors.pdf
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