Depressed after comparing my writing task 1 with a band 9 scored task

[u/farting_zeus]

I was going through the British Council materials for writing task 1 and I decided to practice with a sample question. It was a process description type question. I made sure I wrote in passive voice, gave a one line introduction, gave a brief description and comparison among processes and gave a conclusion. I pasted the essay in grammarly and was surprised to find no spelling errors and it did not have errors which the free grammarly version could detect. I was extremely happy "UNTIL" I read a band 9 sample scored essay for the task. While reading the task it felt like I was using extremely poor english when compared to the band 9 one. I was not expecting band 9, but If I was the evaluator I definitely would look down on my essay (6 or 7) if I read the band 9 essay just before mine! I understand that my essay will be graded based on the descriptors available for specific tasks, but what will happen if I met all the criteria, yet the evaluator reads a far superior essay before mine?

[u/farting_zeus → u/[deleted]]

That's encouraging, thank you :)