Yes, while there is no requirement to make your writing more mature, proctors would like to have a smooth paper to read after several dry ones. It will not directly impact your score, but you may win brownie points.Fluorine wrote:Best suggestion is to up the level of your writing. While also including every thing on the rubric also focus on making sure everything you write flows and is concise. Many parts of the rubric allocate points to the general quality of writing. If you have had the chance to grade experimental design reports (which not many people do) it helps to see how you write something can impact scores.samlan16 wrote:Absolutely not. Take a look at the standardized rubric on soinc.org before speculating.brayden box wrote:Maybe they also judge the experiments based an creativity? I have the same problem.
Also, here is the 2016 rubric, which has been updated to reflect the new maximum score of 10 points for the graph. It appears that some people are still confused about the B/C statistics being merged because the section is still labeled to clarify that both divisions have the same requirements.