Instant Noodle Manufacturing Process

The diagram below shows how instant noodles are manufactured.

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

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Key features: Instant Noodle Manufacturing Process

WhyThis is aProcess diagram — it asks you to explain a sequence from beginning to end.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(how many stages, and where it starts and ends)andStages(each step in order).

Overview

2 points

Stages

8 points

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Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response follows the eight stages in order and uses varied, generally controlled process language. The overview gives the broad sequence, but its factory observation adds little and the endpoint omits sealing. Some details go beyond what is specified, particularly rolling the strips into discs. More direct wording for drying and putting noodles into cups would also improve precision.

TA

Task Achievement

The response covers the eight stages in order, including water and oil at the mixer and vegetables and spices in the cups. The overview could include sealing and replace the factory observation with a material transformation; the diagram does not specify rolling as the method of forming discs.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The response is logically organised with a clear overview and well-managed sequencing, although cohesion devices such as 'In the following step' and 'The next step' are somewhat mechanical at times.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is flexible and appropriately technical, with natural process language like 'storage silos', 'flattened by rollers', and 'affixed to the cups', with only minor imprecision such as 'become dry' for the drying stage.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

The response uses varied passive structures and a subordinate time clause beginning “Once this mixture has been flattened by rollers”, with generally strong control. The future passive “will be fried” shifts away from the present-tense description, and there is a stray space before a comma.

7.5

What to work on next

Strengthen the overview by replacing the trivial factory observation with a more substantive highlight, such as the shift from mechanical processing to assembly and packaging in the later stages.

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