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Steering Committee for the Test Of Proficiency (SC-TOP) now presents Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language:Writing (TOCFL Writing), TOCFL Writing for Beginner Level.
Can write short passages, notes, or simple personal letters describing personal experiences, using properly connected phrases and sentences.
| Level |
Tasks |
Length (Words) |
Time |
Beginner |
Practical Writing (Notes, Invitation Cards, Thank You Notes, Apology Letters, Assorted Cards) |
70-120 |
20mins |
Narrative Writing (Short Articles in Daily Life, Picture Compositions) |
150-200 |
40mins |
| Certificates will be presented to those whose practical writing and narrative writing scores are both above 3. |
| Score |
Score Explanation |
| 5 |
All writing tasks are completed, with a sound structure, accurate connectors, good grammar, and excellent wording. |
| 4 |
Most writing tasks are completed, with a satisfactory structure, appropriate connectors and grammar, and nice wording. |
| 3 |
Most writing tasks are completed, with basic structure, some sentential incoherence, and some grammatical mistakes and inappropriate wording. |
| 2 |
Only some writing tasks are completed, with incomplete structure, striking incoherence, plenty of minor grammatical and mistakes and inappropriate wording. |
| 1 |
Few writing tasks are completed, with poor structure, serious incoherence, a lot of major grammatical mistakes and inappropriate wording. |
| 0 |
Answer sheets are left blank; only the topic is jotted down; digression; Names are not what the questions specify; Answers are in the form of dialogues; Answers are itemized; word (Chinese character) count is below the minimal requirement. |
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