Comments on: IELTS Writing – how your band score is calculated http://www.ielts-blog.com/ielts-preparation-tips/ielts-writing-how-your-band-score-is-calculated/ Your best IELTS study partner Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:31:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: How to submit your IELTS essays, letters and reports for free grading | IELTS-Blog http://www.ielts-blog.com/ielts-preparation-tips/ielts-writing-how-your-band-score-is-calculated/comment-page-1/#comment-234 How to submit your IELTS essays, letters and reports for free grading | IELTS-Blog Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:27:51 +0000 http://www.ielts-blog.com/?p=134#comment-234 [...] Academic IELTS, Writing Task 1 (report) explained [...] [...] Academic IELTS, Writing Task 1 (report) explained [...]

]]> By: IELTS-Blog » IELTS Writing ? half-band scores http://www.ielts-blog.com/ielts-preparation-tips/ielts-writing-how-your-band-score-is-calculated/comment-page-1/#comment-203 IELTS-Blog » IELTS Writing ? half-band scores Thu, 29 May 2008 12:30:02 +0000 http://www.ielts-blog.com/?p=134#comment-203 [...] According to IELTS examiners, it is the quality of your writing that makes that half band of difference. Let me explain. I have written a post explaining how your Writing task gets graded, what things are important and what you can get marks for. So let’s take for example one of categories there, “Selecting what information to present”. If the examiner sees that you attempted to do that, but didn’t do it quite right (for example threw too much information away) - that could mean that you get half of band for attempting but not the full band because you didn’t do a very good job selecting information. Usually messing up in just one category is not enough to cost you half band; it would take two or three mess-ups of that kind. [...] [...] According to IELTS examiners, it is the quality of your writing that makes that half band of difference. Let me explain. I have written a post explaining how your Writing task gets graded, what things are important and what you can get marks for. So let’s take for example one of categories there, “Selecting what information to present”. If the examiner sees that you attempted to do that, but didn’t do it quite right (for example threw too much information away) – that could mean that you get half of band for attempting but not the full band because you didn’t do a very good job selecting information. Usually messing up in just one category is not enough to cost you half band; it would take two or three mess-ups of that kind. [...]

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