Tools & Exercises

Overall Band Calculator

IELTS Section Impact Tool
🚀 SECTION IMPACT

What Raising One Section Does to Your Overall Band

Because of the .25 / .75 rounding rule, a single +0.5 in one weak section can sometimes jump your Overall Band by a full half band.

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Listening

Current section band
6.0
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Reading

Current section band
6.0
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Writing

Current section band
6.0
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Speaking

Current section band
6.0
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Adjust your scores above to see which section gives you the biggest lift.
6.0
CURRENT OVERALL BAND
Average of Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking, rounded using the official IELTS rule.
Average: 6.000
Distance to next half band: —
Simulation only — actual improvement still requires real gains in that section. The overall band is the average of all four sections rounded to the nearest half band; .25 rounds up, .75 rounds up.

Writing Band Calculator

IELTS Writing Band Calculator
Free tool

What’s your Writing band score?

Pick your criteria scores. We’ll do the maths.

Task 1
Task 1 average
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Task 2 average
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🏆 Overall writing band –

Where you land on the 0–9 scale

raw average rounded band

Task 1 and Task 2 are each scored on four criteria and averaged. With both tasks entered, the overall Writing band weights Task 2 twice as heavily — (Task 1 + 2 × Task 2) ÷ 3 — then rounds to the nearest half band, rounding .25 up to .5 and .75 up to the next whole band.

IELTS Interactive Exercises

Fun and Easy Word Games

Word Basket

🧺 Word Basket

Catch each word in the right basket before it falls!

How to play

A word will fall from the top of the screen.
Read the word. Think: “Which group is this?”
Click the correct basket before the word touches the ground.

Example: the word “river” belongs in the Nature basket.

Game over

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Writing Task 1 Ex – Paraphrasing

IELTS Reading Hints