Free tool
Enter your four skill bands. We round the average the official way — to the nearest half band, with .25 and .75 rounded up.
Your four skills
Listening
40 questions · raw score converted to a band
Reading
Academic and GT use different conversion tables
Writing↓ lowest
The skill most scores are held back by
Speaking
Graded live across four criteria
Overall band
6.5
(6.5 + 6.5 + 6.0 + 6.5) ÷ 4 = 6.375 → 6.5
To reach 7.0 your average needs 6.75 — 3 more half-band lifts.
Writing pulling you down?It’s usually the quickest half-band to claw back. Grade one essay and see exactly what’s capping it.
Grade my writingHow the rounding works
Common questions
Each skill is reported from 0 to 9 in half-band steps. Your overall is their average, rounded to the nearest half band. The catch is the tie-breaks: an average ending in .25 rounds up to the next half band, and one ending in .75 rounds up to the next whole band.
The overall only moves when your weakest skill does. For most test-takers, that's Writing.