Writing
2 tasks · 60 minutes
Academic Task 1 describes a visual. General Training Task 1 is a letter. Task 2 is a discursive essay and is commonly treated as carrying about twice the weight of Task 1 when the two form one Writing band — that ratio is not stated on the public band descriptors. Scored on task response or achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy.
| Task type | Items | Scored by |
|---|---|---|
| Task 1 · visual or letter | 1 | AI |
| Task 2 · discursive essay | 1 | AI |