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Soft Cheese Production Process

The diagram below shows the process of making soft cheese.

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

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Key features: Soft Cheese Production 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

6 points

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Answer · 187 words · 3 paragraphs · 11 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response covers the five main stages in sequence and reports the temperatures and durations correctly, using varied passive and complex structures. However, the steam outlet is incorrectly associated with a building, and the final cooling vessel is described as two containers. The closing claims about difficulty and taste also go beyond the diagram. More precise descriptions and less repetitive sequencing would improve the report.

TA

Task Achievement

The response identifies five stages and reports the labelled temperatures and durations correctly. However, the steam comes from the evaporation stage, not a building, and the final diagram shows one cooling vessel with two filtered outlets. Claims about difficulty and taste are unsupported.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas progress logically through the process with a range of cohesive devices, though the sequencing links become somewhat repetitive and the closing summary drifts slightly from reporting.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is flexible and appropriate for a process task, including terms such as fermentation chamber, evaporated, and vent, with only minor imprecision such as describing the procedure as challenging.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A variety of passive and complex structures is used with generally good control, with occasional awkward constructions such as the description of the two filters at the final stage.

7.0

What to work on next

Keep the final paragraph strictly factual and grounded in the diagram, avoiding subjective judgements such as commenting on the taste of the cheese.

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