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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
8 criteria
Placing vocal energy on the most important word so stress guides the meaning.
The five levels →The piece's soundness after firing: no cracks, blisters, or warping, with mature colour.
The five levels →Working with the wood grain's direction, not against it, and using it aesthetically.
The five levels →Depicting different surface textures in a way making viewer almost feel them
The five levels →Identifying the maqām from playing or singing (Rāst, Bayātī, Ḥijāz…) and separating those sharing a root jins.
The five levels →Reading the light's direction and its hardness or softness and using it deliberately — such as Rembrandt lighting or golden-hour light — rather than accepting whatever light happens to be available.
The five levels →Capturing the fraction of a second where the subject's movement and the scene's composition intersect at their most meaningful point, through anticipation rather than chance.
The five levels →Can you tell the speaker from their style without the name? Each character's vocabulary, rhythm, and subtext distinct.
The five levels →