"Tourism is ruining the very places it claims to love. The world's most popular destinations should be allowed to limit, or even ban, visitors." Write a letter to the editor of a travel magazine in which you argue your point of view on this statement. (24 marks for content and organisation 16 marks for technical accuracy) [40 marks]
AO5 (published assessment objective): Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences. Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts.
AO6 (published assessment objective): Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.
Assessed against AO5, AO6 using Revision Robin's own level descriptors below. These are not the exam board's mark scheme. Every quotation in the feedback is checked against your answer before you see it, and a teacher's mark overrides ours.
| Level 4 · 31 to 40 | Compelling, convincing writing. Register and tone are matched to purpose and audience throughout; vocabulary is ambitious and precisely chosen; structure is crafted, with fluent paragraphing and deliberate shaping of openings and endings; sentence forms are varied for effect; punctuation and spelling are accurate, including ambitious vocabulary. |
| Level 3 · 21 to 30 | Clear, consistent writing. Register matches purpose and audience; vocabulary is chosen for effect; paragraphs are purposeful and linked; sentence forms vary; mostly accurate punctuation and spelling with few errors. |
| Level 2 · 11 to 20 | Some control. Attempts to match register and purpose; some vocabulary chosen for effect; paragraphs used but links are loose; some sentence variety; errors in punctuation or spelling that occasionally affect clarity. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 10 | Simple, limited writing. Register and purpose only partly matched; simple vocabulary; little structure or paragraphing; sentences mostly simple; frequent errors that affect meaning. |