The IELTS 9-band scale is provides detail of candidates will be given a score from 1 to 9 for each part of the test – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.

The average produces your overall band score. You can score whole (e.g., 5.0, 6.0, 7.0) or half (e.g., 5.5, 6.5, 7.5) bands in each part of the test.

All IELTS scores are between 0 and 9. You can also get .5 scores as well (for example, 6.5 or 7.5).

You will get a band score for each skill (listening, reading, writing and speaking) and also an overview band score.

The overall band score is the average score of all the skills.

If your overall score is an average of 6.25, your score will be increased to 6.5.
If your overall score is an average of 6.75, your score will be increased to 7.
If your overall score is 6.1, your score will go down to 6.

Equivalent Band Score For IELTS:

Listening Academic Reading General Training Reading
Band score Raw score out of 40 Band score Raw score out of 40 Band score Raw score out of 40
5 16 5 15 4 15
6 23 6 23 5 23
7 30 7 30 6 30
8 35 8 35 7 34

IELTS Listening marking schemes:
Band Score 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6 5.5 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5
Score / 40 39-40 37-38 35-36 32-34 30-31 26-29 23-25 18-22 16-17 13-15 10-12 8-10 6-7 4-5

IELTS General Reading marking schemes
Band Score 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6 5.5 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5
Score / 40 40 39 37-38 36 34-35 32-33 30-31 27-29 23-26 19-22 15-18 12-14 9-11 6-8


IELTS Academic Reading marking schemes
Band Score 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6 5.5 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5
Score / 40 39-40 37-38 35-36 33-34 30-32 27-29 23-26 19-22 15-18 13-14 10-12 8-9 6-7 4-5

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