Scoring methodology
We map responses to official IELTS public band descriptors. AI assists speed and consistency; it does not replace a human examiner for official scores.
Writing
Task Achievement/Response, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range & Accuracy. Overall band is the mean rounded to the nearest 0.5.
Speaking
Fluency & Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range & Accuracy, Pronunciation — estimated from transcript quality signals.
Privacy
Essays used for feedback may be stored temporarily for report generation and abuse prevention, then cleaned by retention policy.