MARKING MATRIX FOR ESSAY: TOTAL MARKS: 50 LEVEL 7 LEVEL 6 LEVEL 5 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 1* PRESENTATION Very well Very well Well planned and Planned and Shows some Attempts to Little or no evidence of a structure attempt to planned and planned and structured essay. constructed an structured essay. structured essay. Attempts to argument. planned and an answer. structure constructed Largely the essay. Good synthesis Developed a develop a clear Evidence used to of information. relevant line of argument. some extent to argument. descriptive or Developed an argument. Conclusion support the line Attempts to some attempt at original, well Evidence used to drawn from the of argument. sustain a line developing a line balanced and defend the evidence to Conclusions of argument. of argument. No CONTENT independent line argument. support the line reached based Conclusions not attempt to draw a of argument Attempts to draw of argument. on evidence. clearly conclusion. with the use of an independent supported by evidence and conclusion from evidence. sustained and the evidence to defended the support the line argument of argument. throughout. Independent conclusion is drawn from evidence to support the line of argument. LEVEL 7 Question has been fully answered. 47–50 43–46 Content selection fully relevant to line of argument. LEVEL 6 Question has been answered. 43–46 40–42 38–39 Content selection relevant to a line of argument. LEVEL 5 Question answered to a great extent. 38–39 36–37 34–35 30–33 28–29 Content adequately covered and relevant. LEVEL 4 Question recognisable in answer. 30–33 28–29 26–27 Some omissions or irrelevant content selection. LEVEL 3 Content selection does relate to the question, but does 20–23 not answer it, or 26–27 24–25 does not always relate to the question. Omissions in coverage. LEVEL 2 Question inadequately 20–23 18–19 14–17 addressed. Sparse content. LEVEL 1* Question inadequately 14–17 0–13 addressed or not at all. Inadequate or irrelevant content. * Guidelines for allocating a mark for Level 1: Question not addressed at all/ totally irrelevant content; no attempt to structure the essay = 0 Question includes basic and generally irrelevant information; no attempt to structure the essay = 1–6 Question inadequately addressed and vague; little attempt to structure the essay = 7–13
MARKING MATRIX FOR ESSAY: TOTAL MARKS: 50 PRESENTATION CONTENT LEVEL 7 Very well planned and structured essay. Good synthesis of information. Developed an original, well balanced and independent line of argument with the use of evidence and sustained and defended the argument throughout. Independent conclusion is drawn from evidence to support the line of argument. LEVEL 6 Very well planned and structured essay. Developed a relevant line of argument. Evidence used to defend the argument. Attempts to draw an independent conclusion from the evidence to support the line of argument. LEVEL 5 Well planned and structured essay. Attempts to develop a clear argument. Conclusion drawn from the evidence to support the line of argument. LEVEL 4 Planned and constructed an argument. Evidence used to some extent to support the line of argument. Conclusions reached based on evidence. LEVEL 3 Shows some evidence of a planned and constructed argument. Attempts to sustain a line of argument. Conclusions not clearly supported by evidence. LEVEL 2 Attempts to structure an answer. Largely descriptive or some attempt at developing a line of argument. No attempt to draw a conclusion. LEVEL 1* Little or no attempt to structure the essay. LEVEL 7 Question has been fully answered. Content selection fully relevant to line of argument. 47–50 43–46 LEVEL 6 Question has been answered. Content selection relevant to a line of argument. 43–46 40–42 38–39 LEVEL 5 Question answered to a great extent. Content adequately covered and relevant. 38–39 36–37 34–35 30–33 28–29 LEVEL 4 Question recognisable in answer. Some omissions or irrelevant content selection. 30–33 28–29 26–27 LEVEL 3 Content selection does relate to the question, but does not answer it, or does not always relate to the question. Omissions in coverage. 26–27 24–25 20–23 LEVEL 2 Question inadequately addressed. Sparse content. 20–23 18–19 14–17 LEVEL 1* Question inadequately addressed or not at all. Inadequate or irrelevant content. 14–17 0–13 * Guidelines for allocating a mark for Level 1: Question not addressed at all/ totally irrelevant content; no attempt to structure the essay = 0 Question includes basic and generally irrelevant information; no attempt to structure the essay = 1–6 Question inadequately addressed and vague; little attempt to structure the essay = 7–13
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