Central Library Floor Plan Changes Over 20 Years

The diagram below shows the floor plan of a public library 20 years ago and how it looks now.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Key features: Central Library Floor Plan Changes Over 20 Years

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

8 points

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Answer · 159 words · 1 paragraph · 18 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers most of the significant changes on both sides of the floor plan and provides a clear general overview of the redevelopment. Its main limitations are a few inaccuracies in locating or describing changes, and recurring grammatical slips with number agreement and articles.

TA

Task Achievement

The response presents a relevant overview and reports most key changes on both sides of the plan, but it places the former children's books room in the south and wrongly identifies the former adult non-fiction area as adult fiction.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The response organises information with a clear overview and side-by-side progression using cohesive devices such as 'in addition' and 'as for', though the linking is sometimes mechanical and the phrase 'in terms of' is used imprecisely.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The response uses an adequate range of topic-related vocabulary for change, including 'converted', 'replaced', and 'newly constructed', but it contains spelling slips such as 'exisiting', 'Tabls', and 'turnd' along with slightly imprecise phrasing.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

The response uses a reasonable variety of structures including passives and participial modifiers, but errors in number agreement such as 'several new room', 'children's books... was converted', and 'room... were converted' recur throughout without obscuring meaning.

6.0

What to work on next

Verify the exact position and content of each change against the diagram before writing, and proofread for subject-verb agreement and plural forms.

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