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Task 2 · “Some people believe unpaid community service should be compulsory in high school…”
Overall band
- 6.0
Task Response
Position clear, but the second body paragraph never returns to the question.
- 7.0
Coherence & Cohesion
Logical progression; paragraphing is purposeful.
- 6.0
Lexical Resource
Range is adequate; several imprecise collocations cost you.
- 7.0
Grammatical Range & Accuracy
Good mix of structures; article errors persist.
Example fix — Lexical Resource
Students can make many experiences from helping the society.
Students gain first-hand experience of civic life by serving their communities.
“Make experiences” is a collocation error — repeated slips like this cap Lexical Resource at band 6.
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See what to fix
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An overall band, honestly
Not inflated to flatter you — we round down when it's a genuine toss-up, so you plan around the score you'll actually get.
All four official criteria
Task Response, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range & Accuracy — each scored and explained separately.
Sentence-level fixes
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Evidence, not vibes
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