INDEPENDENT TASK.
This task asks for an opinion about a topic. The test taker will use personal knowledge and experience to write an essay of at least 300 words to answer the question. The test taker may write more than 300 words if time permits. The test taker has a total of 50 minutes to complete these two essays: 20 minutes for the Intergrated Task and 30 minutes for the Independent Task. Both essays must be written on the computer; they cannot be written by hand. The essays are then scored by a human rater and the e-rater, a computer program. In cases where the two scores differ greatly, a second human rater may be consulted. Each essay receives a score of 0-5.
