How are IELTS Band Scores calculated?

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Manveet Singh

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Band calculation of Listening and Reading is done on basis of correct answers marked. The band you get differs and depends on whether the exam was Academic or General. For Writing and Speaking, it is mainly on Task Achievement/Task Response, Coherence, Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and...
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Band calculation of Listening and Reading is done on basis of correct answers marked. The band you get differs and depends on whether the exam was Academic or General. For Writing and Speaking, it is mainly on Task Achievement/Task Response, Coherence, Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy. Details :https://www.ielts.org/ielts-for-organisations/ielts-scoring-in-detail For overall band calculation, Band of all sections is summed and divided by 4, and then rounded to nearest 0.5 read less
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