ENGLISH LANGUAGE O LEVEL CAMBRIGE
Band 1 (15–13 marks)
• Good understanding of purpose.
• Clear awareness of situation and audience.
• Format entirely appropriate.
• All required points developed in detail, fully amplified
and well organised.
• Given information well used to justify personal opinion
and interpretation.
• Tone and register entirely appropriate.
Band 2 (12–10 marks)
• An understanding of purpose.
• An awareness of situation and audience.
• Format appropriate.
• All required points addressed but not always developed in
detail.
• Given information organised to support personal opinion.
• Tone and register appropriate.
Band 3 (9–7 marks)
• Some understanding of purpose.
• Some awareness of situation and audience.
• Format generally appropriate.
• At least two required points addressed (and
partially/fully developed).
• Given information may not be logically used to support
opinion.
• Tone usually appropriate, although there may be slips of
register.
Band 4 (6–4 marks)
• Only partial understanding of purpose.
• Some confusion as to situation and audience.
• Format may be inappropriate.
• At least one of the required points addressed (and
partially/fully developed).
• Given information may be used irrelevantly.
• Tone may be uneven.
Band 5 (3–1 marks)
• Misunderstanding of purpose.
• Confusion as to situation and audience.
• Little evidence of a specific format.
• None of the required points addressed.
• Given information misunderstood or irrelevant.
• Tone may be inappropriate.
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A mark of 0
• should be given only when:
• the response is totally incomprehensible
or
• the candidate has merely copied out the question or parts
of it at random
or
• the question is not attempted at all.
SECTION 1 LANGUAGE MARK
Band 1 (15–14 marks)
• Highly accurate, apart from very occasional slips.
• Sentence structures varied for particular effects.
• Verb forms largely correct and appropriate tenses
consistently used.
• Vocabulary wide and precise.
• Punctuation accurate and helpful.
• Spelling accurate, apart from very occasional slips.
• Paragraphs have unity, are linked, and show evidence of
planning.
Band 2 (13–12 marks)
• Accurate; occasional errors are either slips or caused by
ambition.
• Sentence structures show some vari
ation to create some natural fluency.
• Occasional slips in verb forms or tense formatio
n, but sequence consistent and clear throughout.
• Vocabulary precise enough to convey intended shades of
meaning.
• Punctuation accurate and generally helpful.
• Spelling nearly always accurate.
• Paragraphs have unity, are usually link
ed and show some evidence of planning.
Band 3 (11–10 marks)
• Mostly accurate; errors from ambition do not mar clarity
of communication.
• Some variety of sentence structures, but tendency to
repeat sentence types may produce
monotonous effect.
• Errors may occur in irregular verb forms, but control of
tense sequence sufficient to sustain clear
progression of events or ideas.
• Simple vocabulary mainly correct; errors may occur with
more ambitious words.
• Spelling of simple vocabulary accurate; some errors in
more ambitious words.
• Punctuation generally accurate and sentence se
paration correctly marked, but errors may occur
e.g. with direct speech.
• Paragraphs may show some unity, althou
gh links may be absent or inappropriate.
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Band 4 (9–8 marks)
• Sufficiently accurate to communicate meaning,
with patches of clear, accurate language.
• Some variety of sentence length and structure, not always
for particular purpose.
• Errors in verb forms and tense consistency may cause
uncertainty in sequence of events or
disturb ease of communication.
• Vocabulary usually adequate to convey intended meaning;
idiom may be uncertain.
• Spelling of simple vocabulary accurate, errors in more
difficult words.
• Punctuation used but not always helpful;
occasional sentence separation errors.
• Paragraphs used but may lack unity or coherence.
Band 5 (7–6 marks)
• Overall meaning never in doubt, but errors suffic
iently frequent and serious to hamper precision
and distract reader from content.
• Some simple structures accurate but scri
pt unlikely to sustain accuracy for long.
• Errors in verb forms and tenses will sometimes confuse
sequence of events.
• Vocabulary limited, either too simple or impe
rfectly understood; some idiomatic errors likely.
• Spelling of simple vocabulary accurate, frequent errors in
more difficult words.
• Simple punctuation usually accurate, but there may be
frequent sentence separation errors.
• Paragraphs used haphazardly.
Band 6 (5–4 marks)
• Many serious errors of various kinds of ‘single-word’ type
(i.e. they could be corrected without
re-writing the sentence); communication establis
hed, although weight of error may cause some
‘blurring’.
• Sentences probably simple and repetitive in structure.
• Frequent errors in verb forms and haphazard changes of
tense confuse meaning.
• Vocabulary conveys meaning but likely to be
simple and imprecise; significant idiomatic errors
• Spelling may be inconsistent.
• Punctuation and paragraphing ma
y be haphazard or non-existent.
Band 7 (3–2 marks)
• Sense usually decipherable but some error will be
‘multiple’ (i.e. requiring the reader to re-read
and re-organise); meaning may be partly hidden by density of
linguistic error.
• Unlikely to be more than a few accurate sent
ences, however simple, in the whole composition.
Band 8 (1–0 mark)
• Scripts almost entirely or entirely impossible to
recognise as pieces of English writing; whole
sections make no sense at all.
• Where occasional patches of relative clarity are evident,
1 mark should be given.
• The mark of 0 is reserved for scripts that
make no sense at all from beginning to end.
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