Assessing Yourself and Improving Your ScoreStudy TipRecord yourself being interviewed, on video if possible, and try to assess your own performance. Decide which areas you ned to work on and improve.Watch the whole of Saida's test. As you watch, look at the comments made by an examiner below and the score she received: Saida's test video
Criteria
Examiner comments
Band awarded
Fluency and Cohesion
Slow speech and frequent hesitation. A range of spoken discourse markers (well; so; it depends; actually; I think so; first of all).
5
Lexical Resource
Some good vocabulary (architectural design, last two decades, cooperative and tolerant, look after their children, help people become healthy again), but limited flexibility is demonstrated by lack of range, repetition of certain items (cooperative and tolerant) and inappropriacies (it's very actual, some cookings and housekeeping works, she always says me).
Between a 5 and 6 (so 5.5)
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Quite accurate on besic forms, but little range. Some good examples of complex forms (help people to become healthy again, try to encourage it, I prefer to write letters by myselff, my mother asked me to go to her home and help), but most of these involve infinitive structures. Examples of errors (technology nowdays are really go fast, she become healthy, now I proud, they are more closer, think about yourselves/themselves). However, in general these do not impede communication.
Between a 5 and a 6 (so 5.5)
Pronunciation
At times, her slow speech interferes with chunking and rhythm and she has a problem with 'th'. However, control is variable and when more confident, she demonstrates good rhythm and chunking (if I can help someone, explain some things which I want to say) and has some good use of intonation and stress (not only nurses, also teachers).
6