MET Writing: Task Fulfillment, Organization, and Accuracy
What MET Writing tests
MET Writing is a productive-skills section aligned to CEFR A2–C1. Candidates write functional and academic texts, and raters judge task fulfillment, organization, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy. The prompt defines the audience, purpose, and register, so every sentence should serve that brief.
Core rules
- Decode the prompt: who reads it, why, and how formal?
- Plan two or three body points; keep one idea per paragraph.
- Use a clear topic sentence and support it with a reason or example.
- Link ideas with a small set of accurate connectors (however, therefore, in addition).
- Leave time to check articles, agreement, tense consistency, and spelling.
Worked example
Prompt: 'Write an email to a language school asking about a part-time course.' Weak: 'I want know about course. Please give information.' Stronger: 'I am writing to ask about the part-time English course advertised on your website. Could you tell me the schedule and the fee?' Reasoning: the strong version names the course, states the purpose, uses a polite modal, and asks specific questions. The weak version has no context, no polite frame, and an error ('want know').
Traps
- Using a memorized template that does not answer the exact prompt.
- Writing a formal essay for a friendly email, or slang for an academic task.
- Listing opinions without development.
- Overusing linkers until the text sounds mechanical.
- Long sentences that collapse into fragments.
Exam-day routine
Spend about five minutes planning, twenty writing, and five checking. Prioritize errors that block meaning: verb tense, subject–verb agreement, articles, and word order.