Speaking Skills Level Your Performance
Speaking about familiar topics Limited(1.5 - 2.0)
Your responses indicate some difficulty speaking in English about everyday experiences and opinions. Listeners sometimes have trouble understanding you because of noticeable problems with pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. While you are able to respond partially to the questions, you are not able to fully develop your ideas, possibly due to limited vocabulary and grammar.
Speaking about campus situations Limited(1.5 - 2.0)
Your responses indicate that you have some difficulty speaking in English about information from conversations, newspaper articles, university publications, and so on. While you are able to talk about some of the key information from these sources, limited grammar and vocabulary may prevent you from fully expressing your ideas. Problems with pronunciation make it difficult for listeners to understand you at times.
Speaking about academic course content Limited(1.5 - 2.0)
In your responses, you are able to use English to talk about the basic ideas from academic reading or lecture materials, but, in general, you include few relevant or accurate details. It is sometimes difficult for listeners to understand your responses because of problems with grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Overall, you are able to respond in a general way to the questions, but the amount of information in your responses is limited and the expression of ideas is often vague and unclear.
Writing Skills Level Your Performance
Writing based on reading and listening Limited(1.0 - 2.0)
Your response was judged as limited due to
failure to understand the lecture or reading passage;
deficiencies in relating the lecture to the reading passage; and/or
many grammatical errors and/or very unclear expressions and sentence structures.
Writing based on knowledge and experience Limited(1.0 - 2.0)
You attempted to express your opinion, but your response indicates notable deficiencies such as
your response contains insufficient detail;
your ideas and your connections of ideas are difficult to understand because of many grammatical errors and/or very unclear expressions and sentence structure; and/or
your response is only marginally related to the question that was asked.