Looking at published test papers of past IELTS Academic Writing, and it seems to me that the rubrics have become much terser: less wordy and less likely to involve examples.
A colleague, the redoubtable Mr B, says they are getting easier: he's been teaching IELTS Academic for the last 30 years.
I'm not sure if they are getting easier, exactly, but I suspect the trend is to do with the confusers.
As ever, I try to teach students to distinguish between the general topic area and the precise focus of the question. The less wordy the rubric the fewer chances there are for candidates to go straight for the general topic and ignore the actual question.
Monday 21 December 2009
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