IELTS is assessed on a nine-band scale and reports scores both
overall and by individual skill. Overall Band Scores for Academic
and General Training candidates in 2007 are reported here together
with scores for the individual skills.
General Training candidates achieved higher scores in Listening and
Speaking relative to their performance in Reading and Writing. On
average, mean scores for Academic candidates showed less variation
across the skills, but the Writing module was the most
challenging.
Almost four-fifths of candidates (75.8%) took the Academic Reading
and Writing components with just over a fifth (24.2%) taking
the General Training Reading and Writing components. Both Academic
and General Training candidates take the same Listening and
Speaking components. Overall, the IELTS candidature during the year
was 46.1% female and 53.9% male. Of candidates taking the Academic
Reading component 49.1% were Female and 50.9% male; 37% of
candidates taking the General Training component were female
and 63% were male.
