IELTS Personalized Writing Assessment

This criterion measures your overall response in terms of your understanding of the topics; your ability to clearly answer the question(s) or to provide an opinion, as the case may be; meeting the minimum word count and following standards of academic writing, including the use of essential paragraphs; your ability to provide relevant and convincing arguments, support, and examples; for task 1 academic, your ability to include the relevant details and overview of the information presented; for task 1 general, your ability to fulfill the required bullet points and clearly fulfill the purpose of the task; for task 1 TOEFL, your ability to compare the reading and lecture points.

This category measures your ability to construct logical, flowing, and easy-to-understand samples. This includes your use of transitions and linking terms, conjunctions and punctuation, pronouns, and complete sentences. You will also need to demonstrate an understanding of basic paragraphing standards, such as topic and ending sentences.

This criterion measures your ability to use vocabulary correctly in terms of parts of speech, spelling, and meaning. It also measures the appropriateness of words choices in terms of context and effectiveness, as well as variety and naturalness, syntax and collocation, and idiomatic usage.

This criterion measures your mastery of basic grammar rules, for example article use, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses (use and variety), clauses and phrases, and others. In also measures your ability to vary sentence structures, and make use of various stylistic tools.