The writing task gives you a full 1 hour to complete your tasks. 20 minutes for the first task, 40 minutes for the second. You are conscious of this time frame going into the test. However, you are not given a timer to go by during the actual exam. You are expected to proper manage your time between the 2 tasks in a manner that will allow you to write an appropriate discussion within a reasonable number of words. As such, writing a particular number of words, within a 20 or 40 minute time frame should become 2nd nature to you as you practice for the test. Practice with a timer. Focus on quality writing not quantity writing. Quantity writing is not helpful to your score and puts you in danger of not completing the essay in a coherent manner before your time runs out. That is why, for task 2 essays, you should not write more than 300 words. While you may not have enough time to correct all the errors in the essay, taking 1 or 2 minutes to actually try and clean up your errors will help you gain a better final score as you lessen the sectional errors you have made in the test. In this case, the word count focus left too many errors in the discussion uncorrected.
Both social skills and specialist skills are necessary for our career.
This is an example of an uncorrected content focus error. This is a personal opinion and should therefore be stated as the sentence after the writer's opinion. This is because the thesis statement adds to your opinion clarity rather than the empty reference to
The following paragraphs will state my perspective more clearly.
There is no sense in stating the obvious to the examiner who will instead deduct points for the lack of clear opinion basis in the paragraph.
Incorrect sentence structures, which could have been improved with editing, were left in place. Word usage is not always accurate, and punctuation marks are often misused. All of these are part of the review and revising process that was not completed because of the word count focus of the presentation. These are the reasons why there will be point deductions throughout as well.
Good points were made and defended in a convincing manner in both reasoning paragraphs. However, you have written too much when you could have said more with less words. That being the point of the task 2 essay. We need conciseness rather than wordiness to increase your score.