Interpersonal Writing – Email Reply
For this section, the student will have 15 minutes to read an email message and provide a response. It is very important to read carefully all the text and make sure to underscore the questions.
It is also very important to see who is writing the email. Depending on who it is, will determine whether you may use an informal or formal response. As well as it will determine if the response is addressed to a group or to an individual.
If possible, you should make sure to ask more details about what was written in the email. Most importantly it is to time oneself to see how much time it takes to write a proper response. Based on that, a distribution of time for this section should be assessed.
Tips on How to Score a 5 in Interpersonal Writing – Email Reply:
- Make sure that the reply is appropriate to the text received. Make sure to answer to all questions asked.
- Make sure that your response is easy to understand.
- Make sure that your grammar is consistent with the use of the informal or formal.
- Use as much vocabulary as you know and that it is appropriate to your presentation.
- Make sure that your grammar and syntax is correct and varied, with very few errors.
- Make sure the essay contains simple and compound sentences.
Presentational Writing – Argumentative Essay
For this part of the test, students will need to use their writing, reading and listening skills. The student will need to write an essay based on two texts and one audio.
To start, the student has 1 minute to read the instructions and 6 minutes to read the essay topic and texts. The student will then listen to the audio selection twice. Later, the student will have 40 minutes to write the essay.
It is very important to reference all three sources. It is equally important to not just summarize them. As an aid, it is best to build a diagram with the ideas of all three sources to help you organize them in your essay. For each idea, one or two examples should be provided.
The best way to prepare for this part of the test is to practice with all three types of sources. One is a printed text, the second is a printed text with a picture or graph and the third is an audio selection.
Tips on How to Score a 5 in Presentational Writing – Argumentative Essay:
- Use all three sources to write your essay.
- Address the topic as completely as possible.
- Make sure to share your viewpoints as clearly as possible and with a detailed argument to support them.
- Make sure that your presentation is easy to understand. If you feel you made a mistake, make sure it doesn’t affect comprehension. Otherwise, make sure to clarify them.
- Use as much vocabulary as you know and that it is appropriate.
- Make sure that your grammar and syntax is correct and varied, with very few errors.
- Make sure the essay contains simple and compound sentences.
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