Essay Score Guide
To score practice essays for your students, you can easily follow these guidelines:
The most important trait is Content, it offers the maximum that is highest raw score (3 points) of course the score is 0 (zero) the complete essay is scored zero, because no attempt was built to perform the job as required.
It is important to stress that the traits for PTE Academic need to be scored independently. Human raters can best accomplish that by scoring all essays consecutively for one trait that is single the full time, i.e., first rate all essays for Content. Subsequently score all essays when it comes to Formal requirement, next for Development, Structure and Coherence, and so on, till the trait that is last.
A test taker’s essay will never be scored on any trait and will also be awarded 0 (zero) in the following cases:
- The response is irrelevant into the prompt.
- The response just isn’t in English.
- The response is written in capitals.
- There’s absolutely no written response.
PTE Academic reports all scores regarding the Scale that is global of (GSE).
To compute the essay score add points over all seven traits and look up the score that is final the GSE transformation table at the conclusion of this document. The GSE is directly associated with the levels associated with Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Council of Europe, 2001).
| Item type essay that is write mode | Written |
| Item type description | Test takers are required to write an essay about a given topic. |
| wide range of item traits | 7 |
| Item traits | Content |
Development, Structure and Coherence
General Linguistic Range
Spelling
| Item trait 1 | Content |
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