IELTS SCORE
FLUENCY AND COHERENCE
- silence and hesitations?
- speak at length?
- linking words/discourse markers? appropriate?
- speak smoothly?
- natural speed?
- conversational fillers?
- self-correction?
0 โ does not attend
1 โ did not talk
2 โ long pauses
3 โ long pauses, small/no sentences, simple responses
4 โ some pauses, not smooth flow (slow; some repetition/ self-correction), simple
sentences, not coherent
5 โ smooth flow (slow; some repetition/self-correction), overuse discourse markers,
fluent simple speech
6 โ speaks at length (repetition, self-correction, hesitations), discourse markers
(sometimes inappropriate)
7 โ speaks at length, some hesitation/repetition/self-corrections, discourse markers
8 โ fluent, occasional repetition/self-correction/hesitation, coherent, topics coherent and
appropriate
9 โ fluent, rare repetition/self-correction/hesitation, topics full & coherent
LEXICAL RESOURCE
- wide range of vocabulary?
- idiomatic expressions?
- paraphrase?
- specific words?
2 โ isolated words, memorized
3 โ simple & insufficient vocabulary
4 โ talk about familiar topics, poor word choice, rare/no paraphrase
5 โ talk about familiar and unfamiliar topics, limited vocabulary, poor paraphrase
6 โ wide enough vocabulary, sometimes inappropriate, okay paraphrase
7 โ flexible vocabulary, idioms & collocations, effective paraphrase
8 โ wide vocabulary, less common idioms, good paraphrase
9 โ full & flexible vocabulary, natural idiomatic language
