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The Rubric Bank — with all five levels
234 written Arabic criteria, each with five anchors describing exactly what separates one level from the next. These are the same criteria your work is measured against — open to read before you pay anything.
Having your own work read against one criterion (optional):
Price: 7 SAR · Included in Pro & Artist Plus · First one free — Pricing details
234 criteria
Word clarity and ability to understand without listener effort
The five levels →Managing breathing to support vocal performance without unintended interruption
The five levels →Variation in recitation speed and pause timing
The five levels →Varying voice pitch to serve expression and avoid monotony
The five levels →Conveying genuine emotions convincing and moving the listener
The five levels →Producing letters from their correct points of articulation, especially the similar ones
The five levels →Timing silence between sentences and words to serve meaning and impact
The five levels →Building a gradient of vocal energy that leads the listener toward the climax
The five levels →Giving each character in the performance a voice and tone distinguishing it from others
The five levels →Intentional variation in vocal power between whisper and projection to serve meaning
The five levels →Highlighting key words through vocal stress to clarify the intended meaning
The five levels →Convincingly shifting between emotional states without contrived jumps
The five levels →Maintaining the level and quality of performance from start to finish
The five levels →The performance's ability to hold the listener's attention and keep them engaged
The five levels →Bringing out the cadence and meter latent in the Arabic text through delivery
The five levels →Diaphragmatic breath and carrying a phrase on one breath without the voice cutting or its energy dropping at line ends.
The five levels →Varying vocal pitch (range) to break monotony and serve meaning without exaggeration.
The five levels →Pronouncing Arabic letters from their correct points (pharyngeal, emphatic, qalqala) without swallowing word endings.
The five levels →Placing vocal energy on the most important word so stress guides the meaning.
The five levels →Using intentional silence (the pause) to build tension and meaning, not just to breathe.
The five levels →Tuning delivery speed to suit the genre (oration slower, dialogue faster) and the text's state.
The five levels →How closely your alif's height in the panel (measured in pixels relative to your own reference dot) matches the documented traditional ratio for the declared script (Naskh ~5 dots, Thuluth ~7 dots) — not measured for scripts outside the classical dot system (Ruq'ah/Diwani/Kufic)
The five levels →Your writing line's deviation from true horizontal, in degrees, computed by a real geometric Hough transform on your own photo's pixels — never a visual estimate
The five levels →How consistently your pen's stroke direction holds across several points in your panel, measured from the local ink orientation around each point you mark (a platform-declared measurement standard, not a historical figure) — an unstable pen angle signals inconsistent pen-grip control, not a letter-shape flaw
The five levels →