Introduction
IELTS Analysis of Scores - Understanding the Scores
The official IELTS score report includes following information:
✦ Contact information (name, phone number and email)
✦ Date of birth
✦ Gender
✦ Intended graduate major
✦ Test date(s)
✦ IELTS test score(s) and the associated percentile ranks
✦ Authorized score recipients or fellowship sponsors and the scores reported to those institutions
✦ Cumulative record of scores reported within the last five years
Official score reports sent to the institutions include:
✦ Contact information (name, address, phone number, email)
✦ Intended graduate major
✦ IELTS test score(s) and the associated percentile ranks
Scores
| Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking | Average of four components (total of the four individual component scores divided by four) | Band score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test taker A | 6.5 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 7.0 | 6. 25 | 6.5 |
| Test taker B | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.875 | 4.0 |
| Test taker C | 6.5 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.125 | 6.0 |
| Band score | Raw score out of 40 |
|---|---|
| 5 | 16 |
| 6 | 4.0 |
| 7 | 30 |
| 8 | 35 |
| Band score | Raw score out of 40 |
|---|---|
| 5 | 15 |
| 6 | 23 |
| 7 | 30 |
| 8 | 35 |
| Band score | Raw score out of 40 |
|---|---|
| 4 | 15 |
| 5 | 23 |
| 6 | 30 |
| 7 | 34 |
| 8 | 38 |
Examiners use assessment criteria to award a band score for each of the four criteria:
- Task Achievement (for Task 1), Task Response (for Task 2)
- Coherence and Cohesion
- Lexical Resource
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Examiners use assessment criteria to award a band score for each of the four criteria:
- Fluency and Coherence
- Lexical Resource
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy
- Pronunciation
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