The four sections
Each scored independently from 0 to 9. Your overall band is the average. Listening and Speaking are the same for Academic and General Training; our General Training Reading and Writing drills are included for candidates sitting the GT paper.
Four recordings, from casual chat to academic lecture. You hear each one once.
Three long passages from journals, newspapers, and books. Matching, MCQ, gap-fill.
Task 1: describe a chart in 150 words. Task 2: essay in 250 words.
Face-to-face with an examiner. Intro, long turn, and a two-way discussion.
Three rules that work for almost everyone.
Built from thousands of practice sessions — what actually moves the needle.
How we score
Scored the Cambridge way.
Reading and Listening use the official 40-question → 0-9 band conversion. Writing applies the Task 1 : Task 2 (1 : 2) weighted mark scheme. Short answers accept British / American spelling and number ⇄ word — exactly like the real test.
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