IELTS Band Scores | Listening | Reading

IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System, to measure the proficiency of individual person in English, IELTS pay attention in four different section. For example, reading, writing, speaking and listening. IELTS provide score between 1 and 9 for each module and even half scores are possible i.e. 5.5, 7.5 and so on. But, there is no pass or fail mark for IELTS. Score 1 to 9 indicate the individual level of proficiency in English.

IELTS Listening Score Calculation

IELTS Listening is a 30 minutes listening test and test contains 40 questions. The listening test scores can be calculated by using following table. Listening module is same for both academic and general training.

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	8-10	6-7	4-5

IELTS General Reading Score Calculation

IELTS General Reading module contains 40 questions and the whole exam is 60 minutes. There will be five topics with various issues and you have to answer all questions by this duration. The GT Reading test scores can be calculated by using following table.

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 Score Calculation

IELTS Academic Reading module contains 40 questions and the whole exam is 60 minutes. There will be three topics and you have to answer all questions by provided time. The Academic Reading test scores can be calculated by using following table.

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

IELTS Writing Marking Strategy

Although the test format is vary from Academic to General Training, but, for both formats has to write two different tasks (task 1 & task 2) and the two writing questions are marked out of 9 according to the following criteria:

Task Achievement

Coherence and Cohesion

Lexical Resource

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

IELTS Speaking Marking Strategy

IELTS speakingtest consists of 3 different parts with about 12 to 15 minutes duration. It is also marked out of 9 according to the following criteria:

Fluency and coherence

Lexical resource

Grammatical range and accuracy

Pronunciation