Internal Assessment examiner’s comments cover sheet
School number: School name:
Subject name: English B Level: SL
Candidate name : Sample 2 Candidate session number :
Examiner's comments:
Criterion A: 7-9 Markband. Command of the language is effective and mostly accurate.
Candidate’s command of the language is effective overall and mostly accurate: Vocabulary is appropriate to the task and
somehow varied (“numb, “self-absorbed”, “reflux”, “virtual”, etc.,” but is not wide and accurate enough for the top range
band. Basic structures are mainly produced clearly, but there are some attempts to produce complex structures. Throughout
the three parts, there are several lapses in fluency along with some hesitations. Intonation could have been more effective
in terms of rise and fall patterns, while pronunciation is at few times difficult to understand perhaps due to L1 influence: Still,
both remain easy to understand. Some repetitive words and expressions are used. There are some occasional errors that do
not interfere with communication overall (“Three teenagers for playing video games”, “a lot of people does it”, “new trend
on video games”, “neither of those are”). It is evident that candidate’s performance in Parts 2 & 3 gets better with more
fluency, fewer hesitations and more complex structures produced.
Criterion B1: 3-4 Markband. The presentation is mostly relevant to the stimulus.
Candidate describes photo and relates it to theme and topic (entertainment). He draws mainly on explicit details and touches
upon several sub-topics that do not seem mapped or linked effectively, moving from entertainment to video games and
difference between art and entertainment. He does attempt to provide personal interpretations on less explicit details
involving isolation and people not knowing what goes around them, but those ideas lack coherence and clarity. Several
repetitions appear without any link made to the target culture, except for American movies which are touched upon in
passing.
Criterion B2: 5-6 Markband. The candidate’s responses are consistently relevant to the
questions and show some development.
While all responses are consistently appropriate and relevant, they are not consistently developed. Candidate seems to
provide semi-full/ brief responses at times (e.g. when tackling addiction to video games and world peace in the future),
while in others he refers to what he read or provides an example to support viewpoint (e.g. when talking about survival
game, watching movies, using video games for education, etc.). He attempts to provide some responses that are mostly
broad in scope and depth (e.g. when asked about religion: ‘’people who are violent protect what they think is true” and his
responses about Nobel Prizes for peace-making, etc.) but those remain in need for further effective development at times.
Some personal interpretations/opinions are included, and few clever thoughts engage the interlocutor (Nobel Prizes, violent
video games being relaxing, etc.).
Criterion C: 5-6 Markband. Comprehension and interaction are consistently sustained.
Comprehension of all questions is demonstrated and sustained as candidate does not have a problem understanding cues
of questions posed, especially the challenging ones. All responses are provided in the target language. His participation is
mostly sustained at large with the necessity to prompt him to speak and develop ideas, especially in Part 2. In Part 3, more
agility is observed along with some independent contributions made.
General Commentary:
Choice of visual stimulus is appropriate, and time is managed well. Teacher successfully manages to elicit ideas and opinions
from the candidate using different question techniques which prompted him to reveal his abilities. Teacher is supportive of
candidate who is placed at a comfort zone. While questions were adapted to the required level, the Yes/No questions could
have been phrased into more open ones to allow the student to show the full extent of his language skills.
