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Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy

How Estimated Band works

What the Estimated Band is, how the grader reads your essay against the four public criteria, and what the figure can’t tell you.

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Every Grade Report scores your IELTS Writing Task 2 essay on the same four criteria IELTS examiners use, in 0.5-band steps, and quotes sentences from your essay as evidence. This page explains how that practice figure, the Estimated Band, is produced and checked. It is a practice estimate from our grader, not an official IELTS score.

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Example

Some people think university education should be free for everyone. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Estimated Band, overall

6.0

Estimated Band on the 0–9 scale, in 0.5 steps

  • Overall6.0
  • TRTask Response6.0
  • CCCoherence and Cohesion6.0
  • LRLexical Resource5.5
  • GRAGrammatical Range and Accuracy6.0
  • TR

    Task Response6.0

    Your opening states a view but doesn’t say how far you agree.

    “Education should be free because it is important for everyone.”
  • CC

    Coherence and Cohesion6.0

    The second body paragraph switches to a new idea halfway through, so the point about cost gets lost.

    “Also, many graduates move abroad after they finish.”
  • LR

    Lexical Resource5.5

    “Important” stands in for three different ideas. Name the actual benefit each time.

    “University is important for jobs and it is important for society.”
  • GRA

    Grammatical Range and Accuracy6.0

    You attempt relative clauses, but an extra pronoun keeps breaking them.

    “Students who they come from poor families cannot pay the fees.”
FIX

Next essay, fix this: State how far you agree in your first sentence, then tie every body paragraph back to that position.

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What you get

After you submit a Task 2 essay on the Writing Desk, the grader returns an Overall Estimated Band and an Estimated Band for each of the four criteria: Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. Each figure is a 0.5 step on the 0–9 scale the exam uses as public categories. To try it on an essay you have already written, use the Task 2 checker.

What we check

We hold out original essays we own to check the grader internally. We do not publish an accuracy figure yet, so we do not claim one. Estimated Band is feedback for practice, not an examiner report or admissions advice.

Limits

This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by IELTS, IDP, the British Council, or Cambridge University Press & Assessment. The practice estimate is ours.

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