DET Interactive Writing
A prompt to write about, followed by a second question asking you to develop what you just wrote. It is a set of two, and the second part is where most of the available range sits.
Leave somewhere to go
The follow-up asks you to expand, explain or give an example. A first response that has already said everything leaves you repeating yourself; one that states a position and a reason leaves obvious room to develop.
- First response: answer the prompt directly, give one reason.
- Second response: develop with an example, a consequence, or a qualification.
- Connect explicitly to what you wrote first — this is one piece of writing in two parts.
Showing range
- Use the second part for the complex structures: although, which means that, if that were the case.
- A concrete example is worth more than a second general reason.
- Keep writing to the end of the time; length is a real constraint on the score.
Accuracy is machine-checked. Leaving a few seconds to re-read catches the typos a human reader would forgive and an engine will not.
Interactive Writing — FAQs
2 questions
Two — an initial response and a follow-up that develops it.
No. The second part is scored on development, so add rather than restate.
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Written from the test board's own published material and checked on 1 October 2026.