How close are you to Band 7?
Twelve quick questions about how you actually speak. About three minutes. Nothing you answer leaves your browser.
Answer the way you really speak
Some questions ask what you would say to an examiner. Some ask what happens when you speak English outside a test. There is no timer and no wrong answer to be embarrassed about — an optimistic answer only buys you an optimistic estimate.
- Twelve questions, one at a time, about three minutes in total.
- Four criteria — fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammar, pronunciation.
- An estimated band range at the end, plus the one criterion to fix first.
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Question 1 of 12
Press 1–4 to answer
Estimated range 6.5 – 7.0
strict examiner → lenient examiner
This is an estimate from twelve questions about awareness and habits, not a scored test. Only a scored answer gives you a real band.
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Speak one answer into IELTS Mentor AI and the examiner marks it on the same four criteria, returns a band range from strict to lenient, and shows the sentences that cost you the half band.
Frequently Asked Questions
What this estimate is, what it isn't, and what to do with it.
Is this the same as a real IELTS Speaking score?
No. You never speak here, so nothing is actually marked. The twelve questions test your habits and your awareness of what examiners listen for, and the result is an estimate built from those answers. Only an examiner, or an answer you have actually spoken and had scored against the four criteria, gives you a band.
Why is the result a range and not one number?
Because examiners differ. The same spoken answer can be marked half a band apart depending on how strictly one examiner weighs a slip that another lets pass, so a range from strict to lenient is more honest than a single number. The lower end is what a strict marker would give you, the upper end what a lenient one would. Why your IELTS Speaking score is a range goes through it in detail.
How do I improve the criterion it says to fix first?
Work on one criterion at a time and turn it into a single habit you can hear: one complex sentence per answer, one paraphrase instead of repeating the question, two full minutes in Part 2. Practise that one habit for a week and record yourself, so you can check whether it actually changed rather than assuming it did. When it happens without you thinking about it, move to the next criterion.