For many students the writing questions are the scariest, because they think they need to be perfect to pass. However, you can get a good grade even if you have some mistakes. The most important thing is that the teacher can understand what you have written and that your work has a good meaning about the topic you are supposed to be writing. This is how we grade a writing assignment in English 2. The green grades are good, C and up, blue means D, and red means F.
Out of 10 points:
9-10 Outstanding, very well thought out, good logical development of topic, no or very few errors, and
errors only in difficult structures or vocabulary.
7-8 Very good, logical, well thought out, some minor grammatical or spelling/vocabulary errors that
a normal native English speaker could understand easily
6. The teacher can understand it and it answers the question. It has quite a lot of errors in simple words and grammatical structures.
5. On topic, many errors and a bit difficult to understand OR clear and understandable but doesn't answer the question.
3-4 Very short, difficult to understand, and doesn't fully answer the question.
1-2 You wrote a lot of rubbish
0 Paper is blank.
Out of 10 points:
9-10 Outstanding, very well thought out, good logical development of topic, no or very few errors, and
errors only in difficult structures or vocabulary.
7-8 Very good, logical, well thought out, some minor grammatical or spelling/vocabulary errors that
a normal native English speaker could understand easily
6. The teacher can understand it and it answers the question. It has quite a lot of errors in simple words and grammatical structures.
5. On topic, many errors and a bit difficult to understand OR clear and understandable but doesn't answer the question.
3-4 Very short, difficult to understand, and doesn't fully answer the question.
1-2 You wrote a lot of rubbish
0 Paper is blank.