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Learn from a revision
Compare two responses to the same original situation. Notice what is worth keeping and how specific changes make the response clearer.
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Study help: W2 criteria and worked example
W2: Responding to a survey — review guide
Make a clear choice and persuade the survey reader with developed reasons.
Original learning criteria, not official rating descriptors or an assessment of your response. Use your own evidence before deciding what to revise.
Quote where you choose an option; check that the rest of your response supports that choice.
Connect each reason to a concrete example or consequence for the people affected.
If you discuss the other option, explain its relevant tradeoff without contradicting your own recommendation.
Connect evidence to a revision
Ideas and organization
A reader can follow your purpose and the support for each main point.
Find evidence: Underline a main point and the specific detail that explains it. Mark the job of each paragraph.
Try a revision: Where a point lacks support, add a relevant example or consequence; place it beside the point it explains.
Vocabulary
Word choices express the intended meaning precisely and suit the reader.
Find evidence: Choose one vague expression and explain what you mean by it in this situation.
Try a revision: Replace that expression with a more specific description without changing your intention.
Readability
Sentences, punctuation and paragraphing make relationships easy to understand.
Find evidence: Read one sentence aloud and identify who does what, and how its clauses connect.
Try a revision: If the relationship is unclear, split the sentence or use a connector that expresses your actual reason or contrast.
Task fulfillment
The response addresses the requested outcomes with an appropriate tone and enough relevant detail.
Find evidence: Match each request in the prompt to a sentence in your response; identify any request with no matching evidence.
Try a revision: Add missing content, then check tone and the requested length. A word count alone does not establish completion.
A workplace can fund either a quiet break room or a weekly lunchtime activity programme. Choose one and explain why it would be more useful. Aim for about 150–200 words.
Situation and reference facts
Both options use the same available budget.
Staff work different shifts.
The existing lunch area is often noisy.
Needs revision
I choose a quiet room because quiet is good. People need it and everyone will like it. Activities are not good because some people do not like activities. A quiet room is better for the workplace and it will solve stress. It is my choice because there are many reasons. The company should do this soon.
Revised response
I would use the budget for a quiet break room. Our current lunch area is often noisy, so a second space would give staff a genuine choice about how to spend a break.
The room would be especially useful after work that requires constant conversation. For example, someone finishing a long customer call could sit quietly for ten minutes before returning to the desk. That would not remove every source of stress, but it could make a demanding afternoon easier to manage.
A permanent room would also serve people on different shifts. A weekly lunchtime activity might help colleagues get to know one another, yet staff working late would often miss it. Access to the room could continue whenever the workplace is open.
The main drawback is that quiet breaks create fewer opportunities to socialize. I would therefore keep the existing lunch area available for conversation and set a clear no-calls rule only for the new room. This modest change would support different preferences without expecting everyone to relax in the same way.
Keep this strength
I choose a quiet room
The position is clear from the opening rather than left for the reader to infer.
What changed and why
Add useful detail
Before
quiet is good
After
someone finishing a long customer call could sit quietly for ten minutes
A concrete use case explains how the benefit would arise rather than repeating a general preference.
Try it: Add a brief example showing who benefits and what they can do.
Support your claims
Before
it will solve stress
After
That would not remove every source of stress
The revision limits an unsupported guarantee and considers a real drawback, making the recommendation more credible.
Try it: Replace a guarantee with a proportionate claim, then address one disadvantage.
Check your own response: Does each paragraph contribute a different reason rather than repeat the choice?
Study collection: original-contrasts-v1. These examples use their own situations and are not model answers to a saved test attempt.
