IELTS, TEFL Speaking band scores level 3

Band 3

Examiners assess your performance against 4 criteria. Fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. Your Speaking results are given as band scores which range from a band 0 to a band 9. Each whole and half band score corresponds to a level of English-language competence.

To find out more about the assessment criteria used by IELTS examiners, search online for the IELTS Speaking public band descriptors.

Fluency and coherence
Speaks with long pauses
Has limited ability to link simple sentences
Gives only simple responses and is frequently unable to convey basic message

Lexical resource
Uses simple vocabulary to convey personal information
Has insufficient vocabulary for less familiar topics

Grammatical range and accuracy
Attempts basic sentence forms but with limited success, or relies on apparently memorised utterances
Makes numerous errors except in memorised expressions

Pronunciation
Shows some of the features of Band 2 and some, but not all, of the positive features of Band 4