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| TOEFL Writing Section Scoring Criteria | There are scores, relating to the Writing portion of the TOEFL Ņomputer based and Paper based TOEFL test, provided below.
Your essay will receive a score of 6 in case if:
• It addresses the writing task in an effective way.
• The essay can be considered as well organized and well developed.
• There are clear and appropriate details, which provide strong support to the thesis statement, and / or which illustrate the main ideas, used in the essay.
• The essay displays consistent facility in the application of language.
• There is a syntactic variety and appropriate word choice, demonstrated in the written TOEFL essay.
Your essay will receive a score of 5 in case if:
• Some parts of the task are addressed in more effective way, in comparison with the others.
• The essay can generally be considered well organized and developed.
• There are details, which provide support to the thesis statement, and / or which illustrate the main ideas, used in the essay.
• Your TOEFL essay displays facility in the application of the language.
• There is at least some level of syntactic variety and range of vocabulary, demonstrated in the essay.
Your essay will receive a score of 4 in case if:
• Parts of the task do not correspond to the topic of the essay, although in general it addresses its topic in quite an adequate way.
• The essay can be considered to be organized and developed adequately.
• There are details, which provide support to the thesis statement, and / or which illustrate the main idea, used in the essay.
• There is an adequate, although somewhat inconsistent facility with syntax, as well as there can be contained some errors, which can obscure the meaning occasionally, in your TOEFL essay.
Your essay will receive a score of 3 in case if:
• The essay is considered to be organized and developed in an inadequate way.
• It is either inappropriate or there are no sufficient details, which can be used to support or illustrate generalizations, in the TOEFL essay.
• The choice of words or of word forms is noticeably inappropriate.
• There are multiple errors in the structures and / or usage of sentences.
Your essay will receive a score of 2 in case if:
• There is a serious disorganization and / or underdevelopment noticed in the TOEFL essay.
• There are little or no details, which provide support to either thesis statement or which illustrate the main idea of the essay.
• The errors, done in sentence structure or usage are either serious or frequent, or both.
• There are serious problems with the ability to get focused on the main idea of the essay.
Your essay will receive a score of 1 in case if:
• The essay is considered to be incoherent and underdeveloped.
• There are severe and persistent writing grammatical, syntactical and other types of errors, contained in the essay.
Your essay will receive a score of 0 in case if:
• There is no response, contained in the TOEFL essay.
• The essay does not copy the topic, or if it copies it merely.
• The TOEFL essay is considered to be off its topic.
• It is written in some foreign language or consists only of keystroke characters.
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