College Café Redesign Plans Before and Now

The plans below show a college café before it was redesigned 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: College Café Redesign Plans Before and Now

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

3 points

Key changes

9 points

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Response 01

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers most key changes, including the takeaway section, coffee bar, salad bar, barbecue, and outdoor seating, with a clear before-and-after structure. Its main limitations are some imprecise location descriptions, an overview that generalises rather than states the main transformations, and recurring grammatical and tense errors.

TA

Task Achievement

The response provides an overview and reports most key features and changes accurately, but some details are imprecise, such as describing the barbecue as on the right when it sits on the far left, and the vague reference to tables and chairs placement, which limits accuracy and detail selection.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The organisation follows a logical before-and-after progression with linking devices like 'Overall' and 'But today', yet cohesion is at times mechanical or informal, including 'If we talk about' and abrupt sentence openings.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the task with appropriate map language such as 'converted into', 'remained unchanged', and 'section', but it lacks flexibility and precision, with informal phrasing and repetition of simple terms like 'right side' and 'left side'.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A range of structures is attempted, but errors are frequent enough to be noticeable, including subject-verb agreement ('the cafe now have'), tense inconsistency ('toilets and bin are present'), and faulty parallelism, though meaning remains generally clear.

6.0

What to work on next

Proofread for subject-verb agreement and consistent past/present tense, and sharpen the overview to state the main overall changes precisely rather than generally.

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