GRE 2018

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AWA Self Read
SCORE DESCRIPTORS
Given below, are the parameters that ETS looks at when grading your AWA essays:

6.0 – Outstanding:
A well-articulated critique of the argument/issue, demonstrating mastery of effective writing, and displaying the
following characteristics:
• Clearly identifies and analyzes the most important features of the argument with deep insight.
• Develops cogent ideas, organizes them logically, and connects them properly without sudden transitions.
• Supports the main points of the critique strongly.
• Demonstrates superior control of the English language, including diction, sentence formation, spelling,
grammar and syntactic variety used in standard written English.
• Few to no flaws in the essay.

5.0 – Strong
A well-developed critique of the argument, demonstrating good control of writing, and displaying the following
characteristics:
• Clearly identifies the important features of the argument and analyzes them thoughtfully.
• Develops ideas clearly, and connects them logically, with appropriate transitions.
• Gives a very sensible support to the main points of the critique.
• Has clear control of language, including diction and syntactic variety
• May have minor flaws like spelling errors, but no major flaws.

4.0 – Adequate
A satisfactory critique of the given argument, demonstrating decent control of writing, and displaying the following
characteristics:
• Capable of Identifying and analyzing the main features of the argument.
• Develops and organizes ideas satisfactorily, but some important connections and transitions may be missing.
• Supports the main points of the critique.
• Demonstrates sufficient control of language, but may lack syntactic variety.
• May have many minor flaws or some major flaws.

3.0 – Limited
A satisfactory essay with clearly flawed critique of the argument, demonstrating little control of the elements of
writing, and displaying the following characteristics:
• Does not identify or analyze many of the important features of the argument.
• Has limited logical development and no proper organization of ideas.
• Offers support of little relevance and value for points of the critique
• Uses language imprecisely and/or lacks sentence variety
• Contains occasional major errors or frequent minor errors in grammar, usage, and mechanic

2.0 – Seriously Flawed

An unsatisfactory essay with serious weakness in analytical writing skills, and displaying the following characteristics:
• Demonstrates no understanding of the main features of the argument.

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• Almost no analyses of the main points have been made.
• Does not develop any ideas or is disorganized
• Provides nil to few relevant evidences.
• Examinee has frequent serious problems in the use of language, grammar, spelling, and sentence structure.

1.0 – Fundamentally Deficient

An essay full of fundamental deficiencies in analytical writing skills, and displaying the following characteristics:

• Provides little to no evidence of the ability to understand and analyze the main idea.
• Failure to develop an organized response.
• Contains severe and persistent errors in language and sentence structure
• Has an unusually frequent pattern of errors in grammar, usage, and logic.
• A totally incoherent response.

COMMON TRANSITION WORDS TO BE USED FOR ISSUE ESSAYS

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