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Q: What is the total score of IELTS?
What is the total score of IELTS?What is the score for every session of the IELTS test?
IELTS is divided into 4 sections:
reading
writing
listening
speaking
You get a score between 1 and 9 for each section
your overall score is an average of the 4 sections
Listening and Reading are marked out of 40 and your score is based on how may answers you get correct
Writing:
The two writing questions are marked out of 9:
9=
fully satisfies all the requirements of the task
clearly presents a fully developed response
1 =
answer is unrelated to the task
Speaking
marked out of 9 covering:
- fluency and coherence
- range of vocabulary
- grammar
- pronunciation
Shining_brow:
Just adding, since Sorrel detailed the Speaking criteria, but not the Writing:
- Task Fulfillment/Response
- Coherence & Cohesion
- Lexis (not just vocabulary, but also how it's used)
- Grammar
There are public band descriptors published by Cambridge ESOL (one of the IELTS partners), that you can look at, and get some idea of how you're going. If you're getting "IELTS preparation", and they're not showing you this, then you're not at the right place!
Also, technically, you can get a 0.... don't say/write anything other than your name....
Are you planning on taking the test or just curious?
sorrel:
according to her recent post she :
wants to move to Australia
do the IELTS
start her own business
in that order 
Well, when I took the IELTS exam, the examiner came up to me afterwards and handed me a pizza box. I asked her what the heck? She said might as well start getting used to it. 
Victoria1987:
What English accent does the listening part and the examiner?
diverdude1:
Honestly I have not had that much experience with IELTS. Perhaps someone else may be able to answer your question. I will say be prepared before you take the exam as it is very expensive and you wouldn't want to have to do it twice.
Shining_brow:
Victoria... firstly, your question shows that your grammar sucks! It actually makes no sense!
Secondly - what do you mean? Your accent, or the examiner's accent?
@Diver... bwahahahahahaaaa....... there are IELTS candidates who book 5+ exams in a row, hoping to get a 'good' score in one of them (not realising they have a snowball's chance of getting much better...)
sorrel:
I think what Victoria means is the accent of the speakers in Listening and examiner of the Speaking section.
The Speaker(s) in the Listening section can have variety of accents, so you have to be familiar with as many as possible The Examiner for the Speaking section could be from ANY country in the world other than China.
Victoria - your writing needs a lot of work
Shining_brow:
Actually, there ARE examiners from China (especially if you choose to count Hong Kong - and before the Chinese got it back). I know one born and bred in Shanghai (although, spent a number of years overseas).
And if you managed to get that meaning from her 'question', you've been here too long :p
sorrel:
I stand corrected. 
many of the students i encounter are in dread of getting oral examiners from either India or Australia.
yes, maybe i have been in China too long when i can decipher meaning from few words . I used to get students to repeat the question properly after eliciting meaning from them. I doubt Victoria will do that.
