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Work out your IELTS band score.

Two calculators. The first turns your four skill scores into your overall band using the official rounding rules. The second converts a Listening or Reading raw score out of 40 into its indicative band.

What this is, plainly. Arithmetic, not prediction. The overall calculation and its rounding rules are fixed and official. The raw-score conversions are the indicative tables IELTS publishes, and individual test versions can shift a mark or two either way. Nothing here can tell you what you will score on the day, and nothing here promises a band.

Your overall band from the four skills

Listening Reading Writing Speaking

Raw score to band, Listening and Reading

Correct answers, out of 40

·The conversion tables

The published indicative conversions.

IELTS publishes these conversions as indicative: real test versions are calibrated individually, so a hard version may be a mark or two more generous and an easy one a mark or two stricter. Listening uses the same table on both routes. Reading does not: the General Training table demands more raw marks for the same band. Writing and Speaking have no raw-score table at all, because both are marked on four criteria and the band is the average of the four, which is exactly what the scoring page walks through.

Listening (Academic and General Training)

Raw score /40	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

Academic Reading

Raw score /40	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

General Training Reading

Raw score /40	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

·The rounding rules

How the overall band is rounded.

The overall band is the average of the four skills, rounded to the nearest half band, and the two awkward cases round in your favour: an average ending in .25 rounds up to the next half band, and one ending in .75 rounds up to the next whole band. So 6.5 + 6.5 + 6.0 + 6.0 gives an average of 6.25, which becomes 6.5. And 7.0 + 7.0 + 6.5 + 6.5 gives 6.75, which becomes 7.0. But 7.0 + 6.5 + 6.0 + 7.0 gives 6.625, which is nearer 6.5 than 7.0, and rounds down. If you want to know what a given band demands of your English rather than your arithmetic, that is the by-band page, and the route-specific detail lives on the Academic scoring page and the General Training scoring page.