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Instant Noodle Manufacturing Process

Question

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The diagram below shows how instant noodles are manufactured. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Annotated response

10 correction notes

The diagram illustrates the procedure of producing instant noodles.

Overall, there is a total of 8 steps involved in the production of instant noodles starting from storing flour in storage silos and ending with noodles being packaged for consumption.

In the first phase, the basic ingredient - flour - is transferred by trucks to the site and stored in storage silos. , the flour is blended with water and oil by a mixer to create dough. In the next step, the mixture goes through rollers to make dough sheets before they are transformed into strips by the operation of a machine.

The next phase begins with making . After that, those discs are cooked and dried into cups in combination with vegetables and spices. labeled and sealed before being sold in the market.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.0

The response gives a clear account of the eight numbered stages in the correct sequence, with an overview of the process’s start and end points. The main limitations are grammatical slips and awkward phrasing in the later stages, especially subject–verb agreement and the passive construction before cup filling. The final claim about market sales also goes beyond the diagram, which ends with labeling and sealing.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

TA Task Achievement

7.0

The response covers the eight numbered stages in sequence and gives an overview of the process from flour storage to packaging. However, the closing claim about products being sold in the market is not illustrated: the diagram ends with labeling and sealing the cups.

CC Coherence and Cohesion

7.0

Ideas progress logically through clearly marked phases with appropriate sequencing devices such as 'in the first phase' and 'in the next step', giving a coherent and easy-to-follow account.

LR Lexical Resource

7.0

Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible and precise for a process description, with apt use of terms like 'storage silos', 'dough sheets', and 'transformed into strips', despite minor imprecision such as 'noodles discs'.

GRA Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

A good range of passive and active structures conveys the process effectively. Occasional errors include the singular subject with a plural verb in “The final product then are” and the missing passive form in “before putting into cups”; “then” itself is not the agreement problem.

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