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Score log

Log every mock the same day you take it, with the weak area named — not just the number. A score you write down a week later is a guess.

— 8.5 target · bands sum to 33 —
Where the next score comes fromSit a book paper holds eight real Cambridge Listening and Reading papers, timed and marked against the published key. Every result logged there lands in this table and every wrong answer lands in your review queue.

Writing, criterion by criterion

An overall Writing band hides which quarter is holding it down. Every script the marker has seen — typed here or photographed on practice — contributes its four criterion bands, so the line that is flat is the one to work on.

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Progress by section

One panel per section against the dashed 8.5 rule — the target is overall 8.5, which needs the four bands to sum to 33. Listening and Reading must carry 9s; Writing 7.5 and Speaking 8 are the floor.

Dashed line = the 8.5 target. Scale 4.0–9.0 on every panel, so panels are comparable.

Log a mock test
bands 0–9, half points — leave blank what you didn't sit

All logged tests

DateTestLRWSOverallNote

Raw score → band

Convert before you log. For an 8.5 overall, Listening and Reading each need 37/40 for an 8.5 or 39/40 for a 9 — that is one to three marks of headroom, not ten.

Listening

16–17 → 5.0
18–22 → 5.5
23–25 → 6.0
26–29 → 6.5
30–31 → 7.0
32–34 → 7.5
35–36 → 8.0
37–38 → 8.5
39–40 → 9.0

Academic Reading

15–18 → 5.0
19–22 → 5.5
23–26 → 6.0
27–29 → 6.5
30–32 → 7.0
33–34 → 7.5
35–36 → 8.0
37–38 → 8.5
39–40 → 9.0
Overall band The mean of your four section bands. IELTS states it exactly: “If the average of the four sections ends in .25, the overall band score is rounded up to the next half band, and if it ends in .75, the overall band score is rounded up to the next whole band.”

So 7 + 7 + 6.5 + 7 = 27.5 ÷ 4 = 6.875 → 7.0. Rounding only ever works in your favour, which means a single half-band anywhere can lift the whole result. One weak section is survivable. Two is not.