PART1

Communicative
Scale Content Organisation Language
Achievement
Uses basic
vocabulary
appropriately.
Produces a text
All content is Uses simple
that communicates Uses simple
relevant to the connectors and
straightforward grammatical forms
task. a limited number
5 ideas using the with a good
of cohesive
conventions of the degree of control.
Target reader is devices
communicative task
fully informed. appropriately.
reasonably well. While errors are
noticeable,
meaning can still
be determined.
4 Performance shares features of scores 3 and 5
Uses basic
Minor vocabulary
irrelevances reasonably.
and/or
Produces a text Text is connected
omissions may Uses simple
that communicates using basic, high
3 be present. grammatical forms
simple ideas in frequency
with some degree
simple ways. connectors.
Target reader is of control.
on the whole
informed. Errors may impede
meaning at times.
2 Performance shares features of scores 1 and 3
Irrelevances Produces
and/or Produces isolated Production unlikely basicvocabulary
misinterpretation short units about to be connected, of isolated words
of task may be simple and though punctuation and phrases.
1 present. concrete matters, and simple
not always connectors (i.e. Produces few
Target reader is communicating and) may on simple grammatical
minimally successfully. occasion be used. forms with only
informed. limited control.

Content is
totally irrelevant.
0 Performance Below Band 1
Target reader is
not informed.
 PART 2

Communicative
Scale Content Achievement Organisation Language
Uses a range of
everyday vocabulary
with occasional
inappropriate use of
Uses the conventions Text is generally less common lexis.
All content is
of the communicative well-organised and
relevant to the task. Uses a range of
task to hold the target coherent, using a
5 reader's attention and variety of cohesive simple and some
Target reader is fully communicate devices. complex grammatical
informed. straightforward ideas. forms with a good
degree of control.

Errors do not impede

communication

4 Performance shares features of scores 3 and 5

Uses basic
vocabulary
appropriately.
Minor irrelevances Produces a text that Uses simple Uses simple
and/or omissions communicates connectors and a grammatical forms
may be present. straightforward ideas limited number of with a good degree
3 using the conventions cohesive devices of control.
Target reader is on of the communicative appropriately.
the whole informed. task reasonably well While errors are
noticeable, meaning
can still be
determined.

2 Performance shares features of scores 1 and 3

Uses basic
vocabulary
Irrelevances and/or reasonably.
misinterpretation of
task may be Text is connected Uses simple
Produces a text that
present. using basic, high grammatical forms
1 communicates simple
frequency with some degree of
ideas in simple ways.
connectors. control.
Target reader is
minimally informed.
Errors may impede
meaning at times.

Content is totally
irrelevant.
0 Performance Below Band 1
Target reader is not
informed.