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Fluency and coherence
Whether you keep going, and whether it holds together. Hesitation, repetition, self-correction, and how one idea connects to the next.
Know your real band.
Bandwise scores your speaking against the official criteria, and gives you the reason behind every band — plus one thing to fix.
Speaking practice for IELTS. Part 1 and Part 2, scored against the official criteria.
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How scoring works
The criteria the examiner actually uses.
The speaking test is marked on four published criteria. Bandwise scores the three that can be judged from what you said, and tells you what in your answer produced each band. Pronunciation has to be heard rather than read, so it is not scored yet.
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Lexical resource
The words you reach for. Range, precision, collocation, and whether you can paraphrase when the exact word does not arrive.
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Grammatical range and accuracy
Which structures you attempt and how often they come out right. A safe simple sentence and an attempted complex one are not marked the same.
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Pronunciation not scored yet
How much work a listener has to do. Judging it honestly means hearing the audio, not reading a transcript, so Bandwise leaves it unscored rather than guessing — and it does not count toward your overall band.
What you get back
A number is not feedback.
Anything can hand you a 6.5. The useful part is the sentence underneath it — what you actually did, and which thing to fix first.
Example result
6.5
overall band
+0.5 from your last answer
Fluency and coherence7.0
You spoke for the full two minutes without a long pause. Ideas were ordered, though "and then" carried most of the connections.
Lexical resource6.0
Accurate but general vocabulary. "Very good" appeared four times where a more precise word was available.
Grammatical range6.0
Mostly simple and compound sentences. Two attempts at a conditional, one of them correct.
PronunciationBeta
Not yet scored. Pronunciation needs to be heard, not read, so it does not count toward your overall.
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The reason, and the fix
Every band comes with the evidence from your own answer that produced it — the words you repeated, the structure you avoided — and one concrete thing to change next time.
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One thing to fix at a time
Every criterion at once is noise. Bandwise names the single change that moves the most, and keeps it in front of you until it stops appearing.
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It will not flatter you
A generous band is a wasted session. If an answer is a 5.5, it says 5.5 and explains why, which is the only version of this that is worth your time.
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Your mistakes accumulate
Errors you keep making are collected across answers, so you practise your own pattern rather than a generic exercise list.
A session
Answer a real question, out loud.
The same formats you will face in the room. You speak, Bandwise transcribes on your device, and the answer comes back scored.
Short questions about you
Familiar topics, brief answers. Where the examiner settles you in and starts listening for range.
"Do you prefer to study in the morning or at night?"
The long turn
A cue card, one minute to prepare, then speak for two. The part most people run out of things to say in.
"Describe a skill you learned that took a long time to get right."
Questions
Before you start.
Is this the official IELTS test?
No. Bandwise is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the British Council, IDP Education, or Cambridge Assessment English. It is independent practice built around the publicly published speaking format and the four public assessment criteria.
Will it tell me what I will score on the real exam?
No, and be careful with anything that says it can. A real band comes from a trained examiner in an exam room. Bandwise gives you a considered estimate against the published criteria so you can find weaknesses while you still have time to work on them.
What happens to my recordings?
Your speech is transcribed on your device. The resulting text is sent to be scored, which means it is processed by a third party — that is set out in full in the privacy policy, which is worth two minutes of your time before you record anything.
Does it work without a connection?
Recording and transcription run on your device. Scoring needs a connection, so an answer recorded offline is scored when you are back online.
Which parts of the speaking test are covered?
Part 1 and Part 2 today. Part 3, the discussion that follows the long turn, is not in the app yet.
Find out where you actually stand.
One answer takes about three minutes. You get a band on each scored criterion, the reason behind it, and one thing to fix.