Many of you probably heard a lot of different
rumours going on about the extremelly
and oddly low scores in Spelling
despite rechecking it many times during the test
And there are also different explanations and assumptions
behind such a low score
So what is the real reason?
One of the popular hypotheses that came to my attention
is that if you use too many
But I was kinda skeptical about this theory
and decided to test for myself
So I took the real test and intentionally used multiple like
over a hundred times
of backspace and delete button during the test
And here is the result
So you can see although I deliberately
used Backspace throughout the whole test
my spelling score still remains pretty high
which is 85
So you got the point now
the second popular explanation is the inconsistent usage of
In this sentence the word "analyses"
is in British English spelling
however "aging"
is American spelling
But in the marking criteria
it clearly says that we should only use
one national variation in the response (given)
This sounds more sensible
and makes more sense to me than the other one
Couple months ago I took a real test
and purposely wrote
incorrect words in
Fill in blanks (Listening) and Write from Dictation
So I did like 6 mistakes like that intentionally, and this is what I got
in this case, even though I spelled all the words correctly
but I used completely different words
from the correct answers
which resulted in my poor spelling score
as well as reduced my Listening score
Another potential reason is the use of
or inconsistent spacing between essays
so there is double spacing in here for example
and in here as well
also, there are extra spaces between paragraphs
But you should not worry too much about that because
it won't affect your writing score
so here are the examples of our students
who received low scores in Spelling and still scored really high in Writing
the key takeaway is that
enabling scores don't always
affect the communicable scores directly
But if your score report shows poor score in Spelling and Writing
it means you really do have problems
with spelling certain words
I would suggest to practice writing more
without autocorrect and then copy your writing into
which is a very effective tool
to check your writing so that you can learn from own mistakes
Clearly, it is very difficult to
truly comprehend
and dig into
the marking algorithm of Pearson
but I'm just explaining
based on practical perspective
and practical experience
And really hope this can help you in some ways
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