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IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors Section-Wise
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Band
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Fluency and Coherence
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Lexical Resource
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Grammatical Range and Accuracy
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Pronunciation
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9
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Communicates clearly and concisely, focusing on the subject rather than word choice or language.
Has a coordinated voice with a suitable accent.
Carefully and suitably explore subjects
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Shows accurate and varied vocabulary across all subjects, uses phrases and sentences without error
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Uses a wide variety of structures comfortably, and continually creates accurate structures apart from small "slips" common of speaking by native English speakers.
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It maintains how to use features consistently, uses a wide variety of pronunciations with correct accuracy and variation, and is simple to understand.
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8
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Talks clearly, but rarely repeats herself, Hesitation is rarely caused by a lack of words, instead, it usually refers to the material. Develop themes that make sense.
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Uses a large range of language flexibly to communicate the correct meaning. Employs precise, rarely incorrect usage of less common and idiomatic terms.
Effectively uses paraphrasing as necessary.
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Proficiently uses a variety of structures
Usually produces sentences free of errors, but rarely makes mistakes in simple or non-systematic sentences.
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Speaks with flexibility, making occasional errors, and using several pronunciations, can comprehend the full speech, L1 accents have less of an impact on intelligibility.
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7
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Uses several flexible connective words and indicators, Talk clearly and consistently, sometimes there may be hesitation or self-correction about language.
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Uses a flexible approach when using language resources to communicate various themes
Increases awareness of style and collocation by using specialized, common, and less common terminology. Some decisions might not be the best ones.
Effectively paraphrases sentences.
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Creates sentences that are frequently error-free, while some grammatical errors still happen,
Uses several complex phrase patterns with little flexibility
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It includes all of Band 6's advantages but leaves out some of Band 8's advantages.
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6
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Wants to talk for a long period, but sometimes lacks consistency because of self-correction, repetition, or hesitation, uses a set of connective words and markers, but they aren't always suitable
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Has a sufficient vocabulary to discuss subjects fully and form coherent sentences even when they contain errors.
Students usually paraphrase
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Could make many errors with complicated structures, they just cause understanding issues
Uses both basic and complex structures, but with less flexibility
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Can be understood to some level, yet mispronounced words or sounds may create intelligibility issues Offers a few excellent functions but is inconsistent in its usage of pronunciation features;
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5
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Speaks with decent flow but uses self-correction, repetition, and/or slow speaking to understand things said.
Speak simply and easily; you may struggle with complicated sentence fluency;
Use of some connective words and discourse markers
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Able to use terms more freely while speaking about both known and new subjects Able to appropriately but poorly paraphrase
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It produces simple sentences with a low degree of correctness and uses a smaller variety of complex language structures, but these can contain faults that cause understanding problems.
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It shows all of Band 4's good qualities as well as some of Band 6's.
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4
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Communicate slowly and find it difficult to communicate without pausing, repeating things, and correcting yourself.
Putting simple words together with simple connectives while sometimes experiencing consistency breakdowns
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Can discuss things that are known to them, but struggle to explain novel subjects and frequently use the wrong words, rarely try to paraphrase
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It creates some accurate short phrases and very basic sentence patterns, but rarely does it develop secondary structures, errors are common and readily cause misunderstandings.
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Makes less use of pronunciation characteristics
Tries to control features but frequently fails
Regularly mispronounces words, which presents difficulties for the examiner (listener).
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3
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Uses simplistic replies and is unable to express the essential point, Stops excessively while speaking Struggles to connect simple statements
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Use fairly little vocabulary for less familiar subjects.
Use simple language when discussing personal information
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It talks primarily about words that are memorized or provide simple sentence structures with a low success rate.
Common mistakes on topics other than remembered phrases
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It shows some of Band 2's characteristics and some of Band 4's advantages.
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2
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Pauses for a long time between most words and communicates relatively little
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Just makes use of single words or words from memory
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Don't provide simple sentence structures
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Most communication is unclear
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1
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Use meaningless language, There is absolutely no communication
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0
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Did not attend
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