IELTS Speaking Band 7+: Through the Examiner's Eye Course

For those who speak English confidently and still keep hitting Band 6 in the IELTS Speaking test.

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Speaking Band 7+: Through the Examiner's Eye

Fluent in English. Stuck at Band 6?

Here's something most Speaking candidates never get told. You can be fluent in English, work in an English-speaking environment, hold effortless conversations with native speakers - and still walk out of the IELTS Speaking test with a Band 6.

The problem is that the examiner isn't scoring what you think she's scoring.

The IELTS Speaking test is built around four specific assessment criteria: Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and Pronunciation. Each one is being scored simultaneously, in real time, every second you're speaking. The examiner is holding four separate scoring frames in her head while you talk. Most candidates have never had these criteria properly explained, never seen what each one rewards at Band 5, Band 7, and Band 9, and never had the chance to grade a real candidate's response against the official descriptors themselves.

They just keep losing marks and don't know why.

This course fixes that. In nine units, you learn to see the Speaking test the way the examiner sees it. You watch real candidate performances across every band from 5 up to 9, mark the descriptor evidence yourself, compare your diagnosis to the official examiner comments, and pick up the specific upgrade moves that push each criterion up a band.

By the end, you can grade a stranger's Speaking response and then grade your own the same way. That's the difference between guessing at what a Band 7 answer looks like and knowing exactly what one sounds like.

IELTS Speaking Band 7+: Through the Examiner's Eye Course

Start Here
Unit 1 - The Examiner’s Eye (with Recovery)
How an Examiner Really Listens
Exercise 1.1 - Matching Language Features to Criteria
One Question, Three Bands
Exercise 1.2 - Which Band Does This Evidence Support?
When Problems Arise
Exercise 1.3 - Matching Problem Types to Recovery Phrases
Exercise 1.4 - Best Recovery for This Moment
Exercise 1.5 - Which Criterion is Holding This Candidate Back?
Unit 2 - Part 1 Dynamics
The Rhythm of Part 1, and the Three Traps
Exercise 2.1 - Trap Types to Sample Answers
Case study, Yuki at Band 5
Exercise 2.2 - Band 7 Lift for Each of Yuki's Answers
Case Study, Erik at Band 7
Exercise 2.3 - Descriptor Gap Between Yuki and Erik Pairs
Exercise 2.4 - Find and Correct the Errors in a Band 5 Part 1 Answer
Exercise 2.5 - Undercooked Answers to Band 7 Rewrites
Unit 3 - GR&A Beyond Tense
Exercise 3.0 - Tense Readiness Diagnostic
Part 1: Range Uprades
Exercise 3.1 - Identify the Part 1 Upgrade
Exercise 3.2 - Pick the Correct Part 1 Rewrite
Part 2: Accuracy Upgrades
Exercise 3.3 - Part 2 Accuracy Fixes
Exercise 3.4 - Pick the Right Upgrade
Exercise 3.5 - Advanced Subject-Verb Agreement
Unit 4 - Part 2 Cue Card Decoding and Planning
Reading the Cue Card
Exercise 4.1 - Read the Card Before You Speak.
Exercise 4.2 - Spot the Misreading
Exercise 4.3 - Keywords for the Prep
Exercise 4.4 - Pick the Anchor
Unit 5 - Part 2: Keeping Going to Two Minutes
Unit 6 - Lexical Resource that Scores
Unit 7 - Pronunciation Examiners Actually Reward
Unit 8 - Part 3 Mastery
Unit 9 - Cross-Band Capstone