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Test 2, Speaking
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1 Topic: Statistics
Society relies on statistics being visible, accessible and robust. And on statistically literate people making the best use of
the information to determine future action. Statistical literacy, then, is the ability to accurately understand, interpret and
evaluate the data that inform these issues.
Examiners comments: Every word from the prompt has been read, but this students speech is slow and hesitant, with
unnatural pauses within sentences. The students pronunciation is also often unclear; for example, these sounds like this
and the key word statistics is consistently mispronounced as stadistics.
Societies relies on statistics being visible, accessible and robust. And on statistically literate people mmaking the best use
of the information to determine future action. Statistical literacy, then, is the ability to accurately understand, interpret
and evaluate the data that inform these issues.
Examiners comments: Despite occasional hesitation, this students fluency is very strong, but their overall score would be
reduced due to the omission of the word the from the first sentence. In addition, the pronunciation of vowel sounds is
often poor; for example, these and this are indistinguishable.
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239 Statistics reflect vital information about the economy, the well-being of the population and the environment.
Society relies on statistics being visible, accessible and robust, and on statistically literacy er literate people making the
best use of the information to determine future action. Statistical literacy then, is the ability to accurately understand,
interpret and evaluate the data that inform these issues.
Examiners comments: This responses overall score would be slightly reduced by a hesitation and a repetition before the
term statistically literate people. Otherwise, this students fluency is very strong, and they would be awarded a high score
for pronunciation.
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2 Topic: Housing
housing is an important component of the individual well-being, housing also has great impact on the nations economy,
with it with its influence on investment levels, interest rates, building activity and em, and employment.
Examiners comments: This student would receive a reduced score for fluency due to frequent hesitations in which words
from the text are repeated, such as with it - with its influence and em, and employment. The student would also receive
a low score for pronunciation due to consistent non-native pronunciation throughout the reading of the text and clear
mispronunciation of some basic words, such as indiwidual.
is an important component of individual well-being, housing also has great impact on the nations economy, with its
influence on investment levels, interest rates, pub building activity and employment.
Examiners comments: This student speaks quite slowly and pauses before saying housing, so their response would receive
a low score for fluency. However, the students overall score would be raised as the response contains every word from the
prompt and is read with clear pronunciation.
is an important component of individual well-being, housing also has a great impact on the nations economy, with its
influence on investment levels, interest rates, building activity and employment.
Examiners comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and fluency.
Therefore the student would receive a maximum overall score.
3 Topic: Being physically active
conditions, helping to control weight, an improving mental health. In recent decades, there has been a decline in physical
activity because more people work in office rather than in manual jobs.
Examiners comments: This students speech is much too slow, with regular, long and unnatural pauses within sentences,
such as between benefits and people, and between risk and of . Therefore, a very low score for fluency would be given.
The students pronunciation is adequately clear but clearly non-native.
244 Being physically active benefits peoples health significantly, including reducing the risk of some chronic
conditions, helping to control weight, and improving mental health. In recent decades, there has been a decline in
physical activity because more people work in offices rather than in manual jobs.
Examiners comments: This student speaks slowly during the first half of the text, but more naturally for the second
half. The student would receive an intermediate score for fluency, but a relatively high score for pronunciation, which is
clear throughout.
conditions, helping to control weight, and improving mental health. In recent decades, there has been a decline in
physical activity because more people work in offices rather than in manual jobs.
Examiners comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and fluency.
Therefore this student would receive a maximum overall score.
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Absence. If your application is successful, you will be noticed via em email. At the end of your Leave of Absence, you
must re re-enrol at Student Services and in the subjects you intend to study.
Examiners comments: This student often fails to read, or mispronounces, prepositions from the text including for, in, and
to. In addition, the student repeats other words. These problems would reduce the students overall score. This response
would also receive a low score for pronunciation due to problems such as reading notified as noticed.
your application is successful, you will be notified via email. At the end of your Leave of Absence, you must re-enrol at
Student Services and in the subjects you intend to study.
Examiners comments: This students pronunciation is clear, but some vowel sounds are read in a way which is clearly not
native-like. The students fluency is good, but the response would not achieve a maximum score due to unnaturally strong
emphasis on the word end and some small hesitations at the end of the text.
your application is successful, you will be notified via email. At the end of your Leave of Absence, you must re-enrol at
Student Services and in the subjects you intend to study.
Examiners comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and fluency.
Therefore the student would receive a maximum overall score.
5 Topic: Tests to know if someone is telling the truth
ones are accurate is not easy. A newly created test is claimed to be the most accurate yet in lie detection. However,
questions have been raised about its accuracy and ethics.
Examiners comments: This response contains long, unnatural pauses between the words knowing and which, and
between lie and detection, so it would receive a low score for fluency. The student would also receive a low score for
pronunciation as some words, such as ethics, are incomprehensible.
250 There are a number of tests available which can suggest if a person is telling the truth, but knowing which ones
are accurate is not easy. A newly created test is claimed to be the most accurate yet in lie detection. However, questions
have been raised about its accuracy and ethics.
Examiners comments: This student mispronounces some words from the text (such as available) and has very unnatural
intonation, especially when saying questions have been raised. However, the response does contain every word from the
text and therefore an intermediate score would be awarded.
are accurate is not easy. A newly created test is claimed to be the most accurate accurate yet in lie detection. However,
questions have been raised about this accuracy and ethics.
Examiners comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and good
fluency. An unnatural repetition of the word accurate would prevent a maximum score for fluency, but the overall score
would be very good.
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independence all [unclear] highly sought after qualities in todays competitive job market. Living in the host country, not
as a tourist or a guest but as a member of the community, is what makes the experience both challenging and rewarding.
Examiners comments: This student misreads some words from the prompt, such as complements which is read as
completes. The students pronunciation of other words, such as sought, is completely incomprehensible, and therefore
the response would receive a low overall score.
independence all highly sought after qualities in todays competitive job market. Living in the host country, not as a
tourist or guest but as a member of the community, is what makes the experience both challenging and rewarding.
Examiners comments: This students pronunciation is clearly non-native, but almost all words are read in a clear and
understandable way, with the exception of job. As the students fluency is also relatively good and all words from the text
are read, they would achieve a good overall score.
independence all highly sought after qualities in todays competitive job market. Living in the host country, not as a
tourist or guest, but as a member of the community, is what makes the experience both challenging and rewarding.
Examiners comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear native-like pronunciation and fluency.
The student would therefore receive a maximum overall score.
Test 2, Speaking
Repeat sentence
Examiners comments: This student only repeats the first half of the sentence and mispronounces extension, so they would
be given a low overall score.
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Examiners comments: This students fluency is good, yet their response would lose points because they say wishing rather
than who wish and they mispronounce should as shoe.
2 Topic: The research
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Examiners comments: This student says teachers rather than tutors and speaks with many hesitations. Therefore, the
response would not achieve a maximum score.
Examiners comments: This response contains less than 50 percent of the text and the students speech is hesitant
and unclear.
Examiners comments: This student repeats more than 50 percent of the text, and therefore would receive an average score
for content, but their speech is hesitant and words like schemes and research are very poorly pronounced.
Examiners comments: This student repeats almost all of the text with good fluency and pronunciation, but the overall score
would be reduced because the student says local communities rather than neighbourhood.
Examiners comments: This student does not repeat the words can or clearer accurately and the pronunciation of aids is
very poor.
Examiners comments: This student repeats most of the prompt accurately until the end, when the speech becomes
incomprehensible. The students pronunciation of aids is also very unclear.
Examiners comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
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Examiners comments: This student reads less than 50 percent of the prompt and there is a very long pause within the
response, so the overall score would be low.
Examiners comments: This students fluency is very good but their response would lose points for saying economies rather
than economy and for omitting the word in.
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Examiners comments: This student would achieve a good score for repeating almost every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency. However, the response would lose points because the student does not say that occurs.
5 Topic: Environmentally sustainable
Examiners comments: This students fluency is reasonably good, but their overall score would be reduced because
the student mispronounces sustainable and says to be rather than towards being, and environmental rather
than environmentally.
Examiners comments: This student mispronounces the as day, and says friendly rather than sustainable. Therefore,
despite good fluency, the overall score for this response would be low.
Examiners comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
6 Topic: Art
Examiners comments: This student repeats less than 50 percent of the prompt and speaks with poor pronunciation
and fluency.
Examiners comments: This students speech is slow and hesitant, and therefore there is not enough time to repeat the
whole prompt.
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Examiners comments: This student only repeats two words, modern and poetry, accurately and pronunciation and
fluency are very poor.
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Examiners comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
Examiners comments: This student would almost achieve a maximum overall score, but they would lose points for
repeating tests as test and conventions as convention.
Examiners comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
8 Topic: The Law Library
Examiners comments: This student repeats less than 50 percent of the prompt, and the overall score would be further
reduced because the student says I dont know.
Examiners comments: This student repeats the prompt well with sufficient fluency, but they would lose points for
pronunciation as they say close rather than closed.
Examiners comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
9 Topic: The morning tutorial
Examiners comments: This student repeats almost all the words accurately, but would lose points for saying is rather than
are and for poor fluency.
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Examiners comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
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Examiners comments: This student would achieve a high score for repeating almost every word accurately, with clear
pronunciation and good fluency. The responses score would be reduced because the student says tutorials rather
than tutorial.
Examiners comments: This student does not repeat the words is, to or draw, and they mispronounce greater.
Therefore the response would receive a low score.
Examiners comments: This student says join rather than draw and hesitates before than last year. Despite these
problems, the fluency score would be relatively good.
Examiners comments: This student would achieve a good score for repeating almost every word accurately, with
native-like pronunciation and fluency. Points would be lost because the student says expected and bigger audience
rather than predicted and greater numbers.
Test 2, Speaking
Describe image
with two windows and exactly the right um have a living living area. Its the the huge part of the apartment and
below in the left kitchen and bath.
Examiners comments: This students speech is very slow and hesitant. It also contains many errors; for example, the student
says can be seed rather than can be seen. The student reads the labels from the image, but does not describe any other
key features, such as the objects in each area of the apartment and their size. For this reason, the students score would be
low in all skill areas.
Examiners comments: This student describes some main features of the image with good fluency and clear, but non-native,
pronunciation. However, the description is limited to the different areas of the apartment and does not include the objects
in each area. In addition, the student does not mention any implications of the apartments appearance, such as the lack of a
television or computer.
left hand side at the bottom and then the next to it is the kitchen and then the er bathroom with the two windows and
there is a study area on the right hand side on the top. And there is some I think maybe its a communal living area um
with an entrance on the right hand side.
Examiners comments: This student would achieve a high score for describing the key features of the image, with reasonably
clear pronunciation and good fluency. However, in order to achieve maximum points, the student would need to describe
the objects in each area of the apartment and suggest some implications of the apartments design.
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which is both on the right and the left hand side. When you walk further down there is the bedroom on the right hand
side, and in the middle there is a kitchen and on the left there is the bathroom. [long pause] There are two windows in
the bedroom and one window in the living area.
the highest point is the same in July for rainfall and temperature and the lowest point is er in February um in November
to rainfall and January December and January for er temperatures.
Examiners comments: This student mispronounces key words such as climate, which makes the description of the images
features quite unclear. The response does include key facts such as which months have highest and lowest rainfall and
temperature, but the student does not mention the actual measurements. In other words, the student could achieve a higher
score for mentioning millimetres of rain and temperature in Celsius for each month. The students speech is also too slow
and hesitant for a high score.
the rainfall and temperatures. We can see that temperature and rainfall increases during the months of summer, in er
especially in June, July and August, and it goes down in winter from October to March and also er April.
Examiners comments: This student describes most key features of the image, but fails to give precise measurements for
rainfall and temperature which would reduce the overall score. However, they would receive an intermediate score because
they mention summer and winter rather than just reading the names of months from the image. The students speech is clear
and their fluency is adequate, but neither are native-like, and therefore the response would not achieve a maximum score.
and temperature starting from January to December and there there there seems to be a relation er of rainfall and
temperature. So in the summertime, around June and July, the temperature reaches a peak when that is also when
there is the greatest amount of rainfall and the in winter, temperature drops and there is also a reduced amount of
rainfall as well.
Examiners comments: The response is a little hesitant at first, but its fluency improves during the description. The students
pronunciation is very good, and the description covers most main points of the image. In order to achieve a higher score, the
student would need to develop the answer beyond description and suggest reasons for the temperature and rainfall levels.
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3 Topic: Energy consumption 2007
percent and South America with er 45 percent oil as well. Um the other similarity is natural gas, er with North America
with 25 and South America with 21.
Examiners comments: The students response does not include nuclear, coal, or hydroelectric power. In addition, the
student fails to mention the respective percentages for each of the types of energy consumption. Although similarities
between North America and South America are described, the student fails to contrast the differences between the two
territories. The students pronunciation is adequately clear, but this responses score for fluency would be low.
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291 So the energy consumption in North America in 2007 er was um most um is er by oil with um 41 percent er
292 This graphs shows the energy consumption in 2007 er by showing er the percentage of the consumption of
different er um resources. In comparing North America and South America we can see that oil is by far the most used
energy, er more than 40 percent. Er but compare in South America, we can see that hydroelectrics are used more than
in North America and South America with 28 percent compared to the five percent in North America. However, coal is
more used in North America, with 20 percent compared to the five [cut]
Examiners comments: This student describes all the key features of the image by mentioning both the main similarities and
the main differences between North American and South American energy consumption. The students description benefits
from the inclusion of percentages of oil and hydroelectric consumption. In order to achieve a higher score, this student
should also mention nuclear, coal, and natural gas in some way. The students fluency and pronunciation are both good, but
clearly non-native.
America, in South America, so we can see that in both area the consumption of oil is the greatest er part, reaching
about 41 percent and 45 percent and er its understandable that er in South America people do not use as much nuclear
energy as North America but what is surprising is the use of hydroelectric and then [cut]
Examiners comments: This student gives a good overview of some main points with clear pronunciation which is almost
native-like. The description includes both the key differences and similarities. In addition, the student would receive points
for saying that the differences are surprising, which shows an understanding of the images implications. However, the
fluency of the description is relatively poor and the student is unable to finish the sentence within the time limit.
and 1 p.m. till 4 p.m. And you can see er they, two to four they will have English class from the morning session and they
will have some social activities and er a little bit English class in the afternoon for four days. And the weekends will be
staying in the ho with the families and they will in day five there will be some um activities like [cut]
Examiners comments: This students description misrepresents the image because it does not mention that this is a
Language college timetable. In addition, the student fails to describe the activities on Day 5 or that the college students
stay with homestay families. This students speech is slow and hesitant and the students pronunciation of certain words like
split is poor.
days in the morning, except for day one where is a tour of the college and a welcome by the head of the college. There are
English Language er classes during the morning and in the afternoon there are are most of the time social activities. Fridays
is a full day of activities with tennis, films, games and surfing. And day six and seven are weekend with home stay families.
Examiners comments: This student describes all the key features of the image but would not achieve a maximum score due
to only reading the information as shown in the image and failing to draw implications or conclusions, such as there is a wide
variety of activities. The students fluency is quite good but the pronunciation is clearly non-native.
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of college and there will be er welcome er er talks by head of college and morning tea, and then the English lecture
starts er in the afternoon. And then through day two to day four student will have English language class every day in the
morning and maybe some social events in the afternoon and um day three there will be excursion to local attraction, and
starting from day five, the full day activities including maybe like a tennis or a film or a game [cut]
Examiners comments: This student describes some key features, but fails to mention the weekend activities. The fluency of
the response is very good and the students pronunciation is clear. In order to achieve a higher score, the description would
need to mention Days 6 and 7 and to include some suggestions about the images implications.
5 Topic: Overseas-born people in Australia
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296 This table er shows er the language college timetable for week one. So we see er in day one there will be a tour
through the 2010, 2005 and 2000 er by country of birth. So the the majority is in the UK in 2000. This is the the
highest point. In in stark contrast the lowest is Malaysia er in 2000 as well.
Examiners comments: This student describes some main features of the image, such as the years 2000, 2005, and 2010, and
the fact that it describes the proportion of overseas-born people in Australia. However, the student misrepresents a key
point by saying the majority is in the UK rather than the majority of people are from the UK. The response is hesitant and
the students pronunciation of words such as stark is very poor.
country of birth and we can see that er the first country by far is the UK, where er it er five percent of at the birth um
a UK birth are um acactually both in June 2010, June 2005 and June 2000 have more than five percent. Er after UK we
can see New Zealand er [cut]
Examiners comments: This students pronunciation of key words such as Australia is poor and clearly non-native, but the
responses fluency is very good. The students description contains some main features of the image, such as the fact most
overseas-born people are from the UK, but the student fails to mention changes between the years 2000, 2005 and 2010.
The student also fails to mention other countries such as India, China and Germany.
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birth. The biggest proportion of overseas-born people in Australia come from the UK. In, what is it, June 2000 that
was about oh yeah, in June 2000 it was about six percent and that decreased till about five in 2010. The proportion of
people from New Zealand is a lot smaller than you would expect, um and all the other countries like South Africa and
Malaysia, Germany etc. are also underrepresented really.
Examiners comments: This student describes the key features with appropriate, native-like fluency and pronunciation.
The description would achieve a very high score because it includes comparisons of both different countries of origin and
the differences between the years. In order to achieve a maximum score, the student would also need to mention some
implications of the data, such as reasons why certain countries are more represented than others.
6 Topic: Painted Lady Butterfly life cycle
er growth and turn into larva and the next step er sees the the pupa, that um, stay for er short time then [cut]
Examiners comments: This response contains mispronunciation of many key words, which makes the students description
of key features difficult to understand; for example, the student says circle rather than cycle. In addition, the students
fluency is very poor and, due to the slow speed of speech, the student does not describe all the basic features of the graph,
such as the emergence of the butterfly.
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is um the size of a pinhead and the eggs then transform into um al a larva, which is also called um a caterpillar. ... And
which is then which then forms into a shell and after that it emerges to be um a butterfly again.
Examiners comments: This student describes all the key features of the image from the adult butterfly laying the egg to the
emergence of the butterfly from the pupa. The student does not comment on any implications, such as the complexity of
the life cycle, and their score would be also reduced by the slowness and hesitancy of the students speech. Although the
students pronunciation is clear, it is not native-like.
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301 The picture shows the birth of the l a lady butterfly lifecycle. Basically the adult butterfly lays the eggs, which
302 The graph shows the life cycle of the painted lady butterfly. It starts off as an egg, which is about the size of a
pinhead, then turns into a larva, or caterpillar in this case, and just eats and grows its kind of black-purple with yellowgreen stripes. The larva forms shells, which become reddish brown, and that turns into a pupa, or a chrysalis in this case.
Finally it emerges and becomes an adult, which is a butterfly, and then the cycle begins again as the adult lays eggs.
Examiners comments: This students description covers all the key features of the image, and includes many extra details
such as the size of the egg and the colour of the larva. The students fluency is very good, with suitable intonation, stress and
speed. In addition, all the words are pronounced accurately in a native-like way.
Test 2, Speaking
Re-tell lecture
to [unclear] in and try to help to a social change and to explain things in a interesting way for them. So they show
focusing [unclear] to bring people to the museum.
Examiners comments: This student describes some but not all of the main points from the lecture. The student fails
to mention that the amount of information available online has contributed to a change in the purpose of museums. In
addition, although the response mentions education and social change, the student fails to contrast these purposes with
the traditional exhibition of untouchable items. The response is very slow and hesitant and the students pronunciation
becomes completely incomprehensible at the end of the description.
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the modern age um most of the um information is accessible online, so um we need to know what we what people
expect and what is also relevant when it comes to having museums. Museum professionals needs to need to work
more towards the um purpose of education and the need to think about the need of their visitors and the instrument
for um the visitors.
Examiners comments: This student presents a good overview of all key points in the lecture. The student contrasts the past
purposes of museums and those of today, and the response mentions the causes of change. In order to achieve a higher
score, the student would need to develop the answer beyond re-telling what the lecturer says and to mention implications
and conclusions. In addition, the student would not achieve a maximum score due to poor fluency and occasional
pronunciation problems with words such as instrument.
that museums have become quite obsolete. So what makes a museum relevant nowadays? Um it shouldnt be a
warehouse of old objects that you can just look at and not touch. It should actually inspire and educate people um with
hand-on exhibits. By creating community links, it can be an agent for social change um and they also need knowledge of
their visitors and the visitors they want to have in future.
Examiners comments: This student successfully describes all of the key points from the lecture and discusses the lectures
implications when mentioning that museums seem to be becoming obsolete. The fluency of the response is strong
and native-like, and the students pronunciation is very good. However, the response would lose points for occasional
mispronunciation; for example, the student seems to say modern area rather than modern era.
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2 Topic: Graffiti
306 The speaker was talking about er graffiti graffiti as um art, which becomes very popular nowadays, which
used to use in ancient er or Rome time, and people er do their art in the in the building, in the in the shop, even
in subway train display um they show their skill, how they can be very good at in artisting, in becoming very popular
nowadays, um especially in New York.
Examiners comments: This students description does include some main points, such as the ancient tradition of graffiti, but
it fails to mention reasons why people use graffiti today. For example, the description should have mentioned that people
use graffiti to express their disillusionment. The students speech is hesitant and their words are pronounced in a way that
is not native-like.
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more um common, whereas tags has no aesthetic appeal. And graffitis have been around for a long time and it was also
found in ancient Egypt. And it um started in New York in the late 1950s and it um the subway trains were also used as a
medium as a new medium to um promote graffitis.
Examiners comments: This students description covers most key points from the lecture, such as graffiti being found
in ancient Egypt and its becoming popular in the 1970s in New York. However, the student fails to mention the purposes
of graffiti, such people leaving their mark and to express their disillusionment. The students fluency is good but not
native-like, and the pronunciation is usually clear but contains some mispronunciations, such as the word aesthetic.
starts off with talking about tags, which have no aesthetic appeals cos they just look like scribbles, and they tend to
destroy properties, or devalue them. Graffiti has actually been around for a very long time. Um markings on caves, for
instance, um markings in Romes or in Egypt were also mentioned. But a graffiti were most um familiar with is the New
York-style graffiti um and that came about in the late 1960s because of spray cans.
Examiners comments: This student successfully describes all the key points of the lecture, from the origins of graffiti to its
role in modern life, and also mentions some of the lectures implications, such as peoples familiarity with the graffiti style of
1970s New York. The students speech is clear and native-like both in terms of fluency and pronunciation.
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example the screens in the cellphones have something er related with butterflies that make brightness with er pure
energy and this is called the biomimocry, so bio is means life, er mimicry is like [cut]
Examiners comments: This students hesitant description misrepresents some of the lectures main points. The student says
that technology has nature inside and that mobile screens have something related to butterflies inside. In fact, the lecture
talks about the influence of nature on technological design and research, but the student fails to mention this. In addition,
the students pronunciation of consonant sounds is often incomprehensible; for example, the difference between v and b
sounds is usually unclear.
the useful concept that it can be it can take from nature and how closely we learned from nature. For example um the
brightness of a mobile er is has been um derived from um butterflies wings and nowadays there this is what we call
biomimicry, that is um copying nature.
Examiners comments: This students description contains some long, unnatural pauses, for example before it is mainly. The
student mentions some main points, but fails to cover all the key information from the lecture due to slowness of speech.
However, the students pronunciation is clear and at times almost native-like, so a good score would be awarded for this.
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more sophisticated than nature. However a lot of tech our technology nowadays is taking cues from nature. Um the
brightness of screens, for instance, was taken from butterflies wings and um moths eyes. Also um glow worms, they
look at how they can glow without using hardly any energy and theyve also looked at the strength of spiders webs for
instance.
Examiners comments: This students excellent description covers all the key points of the lecture. Appropriately, the
student begins re-telling the lecture by stating its topic, biomimicry. The student then provides supporting details to
illustrate natures importance to technology. The response would also receive a very high score for the students native-like
fluency and pronunciation.
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311 The lecture speaks about biomimicry. Um which basically means mimicking nature. Technology is often seen as
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Test 2, Writing
Examiners comments: This summary contains all of the key points from the passage. However, the summary has many
grammatical problems which would prevent it achieving a high score. For example, the sentence has two subjects, sea
creatures and scientists. The student should have written use them for different purposes because it cannot refer to
sounds, and sending messages and sensing dangers would have been more grammatically appropriate examples of the
different purposes.
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Sea creatures respond to sounds and use it for different purposes, for example, send messages, sense danger among
many others and with research carried out, scientists have found out that due to a change in the environment compared
to 50 years ago, the effect on sea life is alarming.
2 Topic: Chillies
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Test 2, Writing
Write essay
Examiners comments: This essay is very poor. Although the student has tried to divide the argument into five separate
parts, it is unclear how some of these parts are connected to the question. The students second paragraph is about
the home, not school, and it is unclear until the conclusion why the student has used the example of the UK in the third
paragraph. The essay contains many poor choices of vocabulary which prevent the student from effectively communicating
ideas: for example, it is unsuitable to call education an eliment. The misspelling of this word and many others would also
reduce the students score.
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Education is one of the important necessary need for our life. Every citizen have right to receive this eliment. Expert says
Edication is proseper of our life
Home is the first place to start learning for every body. They get all the basic education in the home and the next step
is to go to school to start getting more knowledge to develop our understanding of life. In the school we learn about all
necessary areas relating to our real life to lead our life for better in future, to build our confident to face any problem and
be able to solve them.
Over ther world, different country follow different education system. For example, In the developed countries like United
Kingdom has got certain level of education a student must have to attend and after it becomes optional to the person
whether they want to study further or not and the level a student must have to attend is GCSE which a student can finish
in their 15/16. In other countries it may be different.
On the other hand, Some developing or poorer countries migh not have mendetory education system due to short of
Government funding. It is an optional for them to go to school, some countries provide free primary education only.
There is one noticable things that those country who can not bear the expense of free education to higher level get help
from different charity organisation who help those student to get their basic education and can lead their life better.
In conclusion, it is not actually important to go to school till age of eighteen as long as any one can achieve thire basic
education in the school level unless it is a legislation for a student to attend untill age of eighteen.
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Technological development brings us more blessing and make our lives more easier and comfortable. At the same time it
has got some negative impect as well. Natural desester in one of the leading cause of technology development.
World is changing due to technology changing every moment and we can see some advantage and disadvantage in the
same time. Firstly, due to massive industrial development we are receiving benefits and other side we are causing damage
to the nature leading environmental problem like flood, earth quick, tsunami, weather change etc. Destroying forest is
one of the great example which cause the global warming and reasulting to meting ice and leading to rising water level
in the sea which causing flood even some areas never happen before. Secondly,The weather changing very often which
interupting our normal days. Thirdly, destroying the natural balance by excavating hills, filling lake, making taller building
cause the imbalance of nature.
People are suffering from environmental problems and they want to reduce them by taking actions. To do that both
individual and Government need to take steps and work together to protect us from natural desester and preventing
them to happen. Every individual need to be careful about their every action and try to be eco friendly. In the mean time
Government can try to reduce them by stoping damaging the nature and by making legislation to protect nature so that
we can be protected from desester.
Finally, It is our duties as a individual to help government to protect nature and save ourselves and It is also government
duty to prevent human being to destry nature by making laws and trying to save the nature. Because every individual
combindlt make a Government.
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Examiners comments: This essay contains many grammatical, spelling and vocabulary mistakes. In addition, its introduction
and second paragraph are not clearly connected to the question. The student does not refer to the responsibilities of the
government and individuals, and points such as Natural desester in one of the leading cause of technology development
are wrong and irrelevant. At the end of the essay, the students opinion is clear; however, the first half of the essay has been
wasted. In order to improve the essay score, the student should address the question more clearly and quickly.
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Environmental problems should be dealt with by individuals firstly, and governments secondly. The government can only
do so much, but the real change needs to come from the individual.
I remember seeing adverts on tv as a child, asking for donations to WWF for instance. They didnt affect me much at the
time (and they still dont). What really made me think about my actions, was actually a video by Jamiroquai called too
young to die. The images of seals getting clubbed to death, volcanoes erupting, flash floods and other distasters, and
the hook of the song really brought the message home better than the government infomercials. Also the fact that an
individual felt so strongly, and called for action really appealed to me.
There are also other ways for individuals to get invlolved: wearing a sweater indoors, rather than switching the heating on,
vegetarianism, recycling and conserving the usage of water are all examples of small actions which cumulatively can make
a huge difference. The savings we have made by using energy effiecient light bulbs for instance, is a good example of how
individuals and governments can work in tandem.
Change has usually been a social phenomenon, steered by one or more visionaries. Sometimes these visionaries hold
positions in government, but more often they are just regular citizens.
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Examiners comments: This essay would receive a high score because it effectively addresses the question and the students
ideas are supported by clear explanations and interesting examples. The students use of grammar and vocabulary are
mostly very strong; however, occasional errors would prevent this essay achieving a maximum score in these areas. For
example, the student says The government can only do so much, but the real change needs to come from the individual.
Only and but should not be used together in this way, and it is necessary for a student to show a full mastery of language
for a maximum score.
Test 2, Listening
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Examiners comments: This summary is quite strong, and contains all of the lectures points. However, the students
description of the second concern of local government is not completely clear. The student should have said to create
public service which is more customer directed. Grammatical structures have been used appropriately and there are no
spelling mistakes, but the summary would lose points for being too long (72 words).
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