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Hi everyone

A lot of people ask me about the breakdown of how the writing is scored. There are a few basic things you need to know.

Each writing task is broken down into four separate band descriptors - TA, CC, LR, GR (see https://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/ielts_task_2_writing_band_descriptors.pdf)

For each task separately, you will be given a score between 1 and 9 for each band. These four band scores are then added up, divided by four, and ROUNDED DOWN. In other words, a 7,7,6,7 would equal a 6.5 for the task.

Your overall score for each writing task is then put into the table in the picture shown below to give your overall writing score.

I've seen versions of this table online that are incorrect. Most of those ones are too generous. The real table, as shown below, rounds things down. For example, 6.5 in task 1 + 7 in task 2 = 6.5 overall.

Your overall writing score is finally added to your other overall scores (speaking, reading, listening), divided by four and then ROUNDED UP.

In other words, 7,7,6,7 would equal 7 as your final IELTS score.

I hope that clears things up a bit.

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