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Development of Chorleywood Village Between 1868 and 1994

Chorleywood is a village near London whose population has increased steadily since the middle of the nineteenth century. The map below shows the development of the village.

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

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Key features: Development of Chorleywood Village Between 1868 and 1994

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

5 points

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response identifies development over time and its association with transport links, and includes an overview. However, the locations of successive development phases need more detail. Repeated railway information, imprecise terms such as “renovation”, and grammatical errors reduce clarity. The roughly hash-shaped network is a defensible description, while calling Chorleywood a city conflicts with the prompt.

TA

Task Achievement

The response describes staged development and its association with transport, but gives limited spatial detail for the four shaded periods. Calling Chorleywood a city is inaccurate; the roughly hash-shaped transport network is a defensible visual description.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Information is generally sequenced chronologically and progresses broadly clearly, though cohesion is sometimes mechanical and ideas repeat, as with the railway's construction being mentioned twice.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for describing development and transport features, but phrases like 'development works', 'renovation process', and 'transportation facility defined the are' show limited precision and occasional inappropriate word choice.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Sentence structures convey the sequence of events, but errors such as “much of these constructions”, the missing article in “of 20th century”, and “forms and hash like shape” reduce grammatical accuracy and occasionally impede clarity.

6.0

What to work on next

Verify factual accuracy against the map, remove repetition, and refine phrasing so that key features such as the location of each development period are described precisely.

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