Reading · Listening · Writing · Speaking
Stop guessing why you got a 6.5.
Syllabus marks your practice answers against the exam board's own published band descriptors, then shows you the line that cost you the mark.
Pick your exam.
Three exams are marked today. Four more are being built against their own rubrics, one criterion at a time.
Here is what a mark looks like.
One writing task, four criteria, and the sentence behind each one.
Estimated overall band
Your target is 7.0. One criterion is holding the average down.
- Task Response6.0
- Coherence and Cohesion7.0
- Lexical Resource6.5
- Grammatical Range and Accuracy6.5
Why Task Response is 6.0
Your position is clear in the introduction, but the third paragraph argues the opposite side without saying so. The descriptor asks for a position that stays consistent throughout the response.
Estimate, not an official result.
Marked against the real rubric.
Every answer is scored on the exam board's own published band descriptors. Not a general writing checker, and not a guess. The same criteria your examiner reads from.
Four criteria, scored one at a time.
The reason, not just the number.
A score on its own tells you nothing you can act on. Syllabus gives you the band, then the sentence that pulled it down and the descriptor it fell short of. One thing to fix, in your own words, on your own page.
Every mark points back at a line you wrote.
All four skills, every time.
Reading, listening, writing and speaking. Most people retaking are strong in three and stuck in one. That one is the whole reason you are here, so it gets marked the same way as the rest.
Strong in three, stuck in one. We know the shape.
There is no partial resit.
Miss your target in one module and you sit all four again, pay the full fee again, and wait about thirty days to find out. That is the cost of not knowing. It is worth an hour of finding out.
One module short means four modules again.
Three steps. No answer key.
An answer key tells you what the right answer was. It never tells you what was wrong with yours.
- Step 1
Write it or say it.
Do a real task under real timing. Type your essay, or record your speaking turn.
- Step 2
We mark each criterion.
Your answer is read against the band table one criterion at a time, the way it is actually written.
- Step 3
You get a band and a reason.
Per criterion, with the descriptor quoted back to you and the line in your answer that triggered it.
We show our work.
No testimonials on this page, and no accuracy number. Both would be easy to write and neither would be true yet. What we can show you is the paperwork the marking runs on. Read it yourself.
What we will publish
We have no correlation figure against real examiners yet. When we have one that holds up, we will publish the method next to the number, not the number on its own.
In progressFind the half band you keep losing.
Bring one essay you already wrote. See what it scores, and why.