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Australian Beachfront Area Maps 1950 and Today

The maps below show a beachfront area in Australia in 1950 and the same area today.

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Key features: Australian Beachfront Area Maps 1950 and Today

WhyThis is aMap — it asks you to describe how a place changed.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(the overall change to the place)andKey changes(what was added, removed, moved or kept).

Overview

2 points

Key changes

9 points

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers most key changes from both maps, including the road extension, new car parks, surf clubs, restaurant, and pool enlargement, showing reasonable content selection. Its main limitation is frequent grammatical inaccuracy and awkward, unclear expression that occasionally obscures the description of locations and changes.

TA

Task Achievement

The response provides an overview of the main changes and describes most key features from both maps, including the road extension, car parks, restaurant, surf clubs, and the enlarged 50m pool, though phrasing such as 'one is the 25m pool backside' is imprecise and some details are expressed unclearly.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Progression is broadly clear with an introduction, overview, and body paragraphs, but cohesive devices are mechanical and referencing is often weak, for example 'It developed to the lighthouse, and it's in u shape'.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the task with some appropriate map language such as 'dramatic changes' and 'takes the place of', but it is limited and occasionally inaccurate in expressions like 'one new advancement surf club'.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A range of structures is attempted, but errors are frequent, including subject-verb agreement ('There was two same dimensions pool'), article omissions, and faulty constructions like 'pool dimensions double than 1950', which sometimes impede clarity.

5.5

What to work on next

Strengthen sentence grammar and precision when describing locations and comparisons so that every spatial detail is communicated unambiguously.

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