How IELTS AI scoring works
Do a real IELTS task. Get your score and the fix in about a minute. Practise until your band goes up.
Watching videos does not raise your band. Practising with feedback does.
So BandNine marks your own work against those same four criteria, and shows you exactly what to fix.
Four simple steps
Choose a skill
Writing, Speaking, Listening or Reading. Start with the one you find hardest.
Do a real task
Write an essay, record your voice, or answer questions, just like the real exam.
Get your band in about a minute
Your score, plus the exact sentence or answer to fix. Not just "study more".
Fix it and try again
Make the change, practise again, and watch your band go up. As much as you want.
Why it works
You practise the real test
Not videos about the test. You only get better at what you actually do.
Marked against the four official criteria
Every answer is checked against the same 4 things a real examiner looks at.
One clear thing to fix
No long list. We show you the single change that lifts your band the most.
Common questions
How does AI IELTS scoring actually work?
Your answer is assessed against the four published band descriptors, the same four a human examiner uses: Task Response or Task Achievement, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. Each gets its own band rather than one overall guess, because the four rarely move together. The report then points at the specific sentences behind each criterion, so the number comes with its evidence attached.
How long does it take to get a band?
A first band arrives in seconds and the full report in about a minute. That speed is the entire mechanism: it is short enough to write, read the marking, fix the weakest paragraph and resubmit in one sitting, and that loop is what moves a band. Feedback that arrives days later gets read once and changes nothing.
Is an AI band the same as a real examiner's band?
No. A certified examiner marks to a standard we can approximate and cannot match, and any tool claiming otherwise is selling you something it does not have. What we do instead is publish the gap: our measured mean absolute error is published on the quality page, re-run every week including the weeks it gets worse, with the sample size and the limits on the quality page. One of those limits is that our reference bands are labelled in house against the public descriptors rather than by a certified examiner.
Why does it show one fix instead of a full list?
Because a list of twenty corrections gets skimmed and none of them get made. The report leads with the single change that would lift your band the most, then keeps the rest available underneath. Candidates who fix one thing per attempt improve faster than candidates handed a page of red ink, which is a teaching decision rather than a technical limit.
Does it mark Speaking as well as Writing?
Yes. You record an answer to a real cue card and it is assessed on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. Speaking is the module most candidates practise least, because until recently it needed another person in the room, and that is precisely why it is worth practising.
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