IELTS Speaking band calculator
Your Speaking band is the average of four equally weighted criteria: Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and Pronunciation.
IELTS Speaking band
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Questions people ask
What are the four IELTS Speaking criteria?
Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and Pronunciation. Each carries equal weight.
If I get 7, 6, 6 and 7, what is my Speaking band?
The average is 6.5, a half band, so 6.5.
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What it does
Pick your band on each of the four Speaking criteria to get your Speaking band.
IELTS Speaking, Academic and General Training: four criteria, each marked 0 to 9.
Method
- IELTS weights the four criteria equally and the average gives the Speaking score.
- IELTS reports Speaking in whole and half bands but does not publish how an average in between is rounded. We round down to the half band below, so the band shown is our estimate whenever the average falls between half bands.
Sources
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- IELTS (British Council, IDP IELTS, Cambridge University Press & Assessment): IELTS scoring in detail, Section band scores, Writing: "Each task is assessed independently. The criteria are weighted equally and the score on the task is the average." Speaking: "Each of the criteria carry equal weighting and the overall average gives the IELTS score for Speaking." Scores are reported in whole and half bands.
- IELTS: IELTS Academic test format: Writing, Summary: "Marking: Task 2 contributes twice as much as Task 1 to the Writing score."