Turn a Listening score out of 40 into a band
Enter how many of the forty answers were correct to see the band it usually comes to.
BAND SCORE—
This one is an estimate. IELTS changes how many correct answers a band needs from paper to paper, so that a harder test does not punish you, and they do not publish the table. The figures here are the widely used ones, and different sources disagree by a mark or two around some bands. Treat it as close, not exact.
| Correct answers | Band |
|---|---|
| 39-40 | 9.0 |
| 37-38 | 8.5 |
| 35-36 | 8.0 |
| 32-34 | 7.5 |
| 30-31 | 7.0 |
| 26-29 | 6.5 |
| 23-25 | 6.0 |
| 18-22 | 5.5 |
| 16-17 | 5.0 |
| 13-15 | 4.5 |
| 11-12 | 4.0 |
| 8-10 | 3.5 |
| 6-7 | 3.0 |
| 4-5 | 2.5 |
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