IELTS Band Score Calculator
Enter your Listening and Reading correct answers (or bands) and your Writing and Speaking bands. The calculator converts each one and works out your overall IELTS band with the same rounding rules IELTS uses.
Band: 7.0
Band: 7.0
Listening and Reading conversions are estimates: the exact table varies slightly between test versions.
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Those two are scored by an examiner, not by counting answers. Take a free mock test and get an estimated band for each criterion.
Get my band freeHow the overall IELTS band is calculated
Your overall band is the average of your four skill bands: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. Each skill counts equally.
The average is then rounded to the nearest half band. An average ending in .25 rounds up to .5, and an average ending in .75 rounds up to the next whole band. Anything below .25 rounds down.
Listening and Reading are marked out of 40 and converted to a band with a conversion table. Writing and Speaking are given a band directly by the examiner, using the four criteria in the band descriptors.
Rounding examples
| L / R / W / S | Average | Overall band |
|---|---|---|
| 6.5 / 6.5 / 5.5 / 6 | 6.125 | 6 |
| 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| 6.5 / 7 / 6 / 6.5 | 6.25 | 6.5 |
| 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 7 | 7.0 | 7 |
| 8 / 7.5 / 6.5 / 7 | 7.25 | 7.5 |
| 8 / 8 / 7 / 7.5 | 7.625 | 7.5 |
| 8.5 / 8 / 7 / 7.5 | 7.75 | 8 |
IELTS Listening and Reading band score tables
Both tests have 40 questions, one mark each. Academic and General Training share the same Listening table; Reading has a separate table for each, because the General Training texts are easier and need more correct answers for the same band.
Listening (Academic & General)
| Correct answers | Band |
|---|---|
| 39–40 | 9.0 |
| 37–38 | 8.5 |
| 35–36 | 8.0 |
| 32–34 | 7.5 |
| 30–31 | 7.0 |
| 26–29 | 6.5 |
| 23–25 | 6.0 |
| 18–22 | 5.5 |
| 16–17 | 5.0 |
| 13–15 | 4.5 |
| 10–12 | 4.0 |
| 8–9 | 3.5 |
| 6–7 | 3.0 |
| 4–5 | 2.5 |
Academic Reading
| Correct answers | Band |
|---|---|
| 39–40 | 9.0 |
| 37–38 | 8.5 |
| 35–36 | 8.0 |
| 33–34 | 7.5 |
| 30–32 | 7.0 |
| 27–29 | 6.5 |
| 23–26 | 6.0 |
| 19–22 | 5.5 |
| 15–18 | 5.0 |
| 13–14 | 4.5 |
| 10–12 | 4.0 |
| 8–9 | 3.5 |
| 6–7 | 3.0 |
| 4–5 | 2.5 |
General Training Reading
| Correct answers | Band |
|---|---|
| 40 | 9.0 |
| 39 | 8.5 |
| 37–38 | 8.0 |
| 36 | 7.5 |
| 34–35 | 7.0 |
| 32–33 | 6.5 |
| 30–31 | 6.0 |
| 27–29 | 5.5 |
| 23–26 | 5.0 |
| 19–22 | 4.5 |
| 15–18 | 4.0 |
| 12–14 | 3.5 |
| 9–11 | 3.0 |
| 6–8 | 2.5 |
How the Writing band is worked out
Each Writing task is scored on four criteria: Task Achievement (Task 1) or Task Response (Task 2), Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy.
Task 2 counts for twice as much as Task 1. A band 6 in Task 1 and a band 7 in Task 2 usually gives a Writing band of 6.5, which is why most of your preparation time belongs on the essay.
IELTS band score questions
Add your Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking bands and divide by four. Round the result to the nearest half band: .25 rounds up to .5, .75 rounds up to the next whole band, and anything lower rounds down.
Usually 30 out of 40. Band 6 needs about 23 and band 8 about 35. The exact cut-offs move slightly from one test version to another.
In Academic Reading, about 30 out of 40. In General Training Reading, about 34 out of 40, because the texts are easier.
Yes. An average of 6.75 becomes an overall band 7. An average of 6.25 becomes 6.5, and 6.125 becomes 6.
No. Writing and Speaking are scored by an examiner against the band descriptors, so there is nothing to count. To estimate them, do a timed Writing task or a Speaking mock test and have it scored. Wono IELTS does this free for your first mock tests.
No. It is an estimate built on the published conversion tables and rounding rules. Only your Test Report Form is official.