How is your IELTS speaking band score calculated? This is an important question for any IELTS candidate because many mistakes can be avoided by knowing what the examiner is looking for and how your speaking is graded. This post gives you a brief outline of the grading criteria, how band scores are calculated and how examiners typically grade the speaking.YR3NNSCZZU73
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This is just a brief post to announce that I have added an interactive reading and listening band score calculator to the site. As you are preparing and practising tests it is obviously useful to check your progress. I have also added information and links to explain what the band scores mean.
The calculator can be found here: online band score calculator
Grammatical range and accuracy is perhaps the most misunderstood grading criterion in IELTS writing. The clue is in the name: it is not enough to not make mistakes (accuracy), you also need to use a variety of grammatical structures (range). Too often candidates focus only on the mistakes.
Accuracy is not a simple idea and it can be though about in 2 ways.
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What is “lexical resource”? In a word it is vocabulary and it matters for IELTS writing because it is one of the 4 grading criteria which affect your band score. Here is an explanation of what to do and not to do to improve your band score. There are 4 key areas to look at:
This means that you need to use different words and… Continue reading
This article looks at coherence and cohesion in IELTS writing and give examples of common mistakes that IELTS candidates make using them. Understanding these mistakes should help improve your IELTS writing and your band score.
Paragraphs need to have a clear, central topic and be used logically. If your writing does not have paragraphs or the paragraphs are confusing, your coherence score will be no… Continue reading
This article looks at task response in IELTS writing which is one of the 4 grading criteria. In it, I look at what task response means in detail and give examples of common mistakes that candidates make. Understanding these mistakes should help improve your IELTS writing.
There are 4 issues to think about.
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How is your IELTS band score calculated? This is an important question for any IELTS candidate because many mistakes can be avoided by knowing what the examiner is looking for and how your writing is graded. More than that you may be surprised by some of the detail. Many candidates are.
This post gives you a brief outline of the grading criteria, how band scores are calculated and how… Continue reading
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