Self-Assessment Guide

B2 · Upper-intermediate52 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 3 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: score your own speaking like an examiner — four Band 7-style benchmark samples (one per criterion) to calibrate against, then an evidence-based re-scoring of yourself.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Can you trust your own scores?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Understanding the Assessment Criteria

    Read a 120-word text about Understanding the Assessment Criteria

  2. Reading10 min

    Reading: What Band 7 sounds like: one benchmark per criterion

    Read a 472-word text about What Band 7 sounds like: one benchmark per criterion

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Self-Assessment Questions

    Read a 138-word text about Self-Assessment Questions

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Criterion Matching

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: re-score yourself against the benchmarks

    3 discussion questions

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