What speaking ability does a score of IELTS Band 7.5 represent?

Watch this Speaking test sample, where Aashish from Nepal talks about 'Work, friends, food and cooking'.

Here's why this performance was given a Band 7.5:

"This test taker speaks fluently and he engages with the questions without any obvious effort. There is only occasional hesitation, repetition and selfcorrection, which is mostly contentrelated and only rarely to search for language. His relaxed delivery is supported by his flexible use of markers (I am both; basically; as well as; every now and then; that would be French).

His vocabulary is sufficient for him to engage with a variety of topics and he demonstrates an ability to use idioms and collocations with some sense of style and skill. However, he makes a number of inappropriate vocabulary choices (all over the place; that’s not just my cup of tea; someone to confront and talk to; I haven’t got a chance), which restrict his rating on this criterion.

He has a wide range of grammatical structures at his disposal and the majority of sentences are errorfree. Even when errors do very occasionally occur (I work parttime as well as a student; it just does not come into me), they do not detract at all from meaning.

He uses a wide range of pronunciation features and is able to use stress and intonation effectively. There are just a few lapses and very occasionally sounds are poorly formed (bot for ‘both’; vent for ‘went’), but overall, his accent has only minimal effect on intelligibility.

The test taker’s vocabulary is not as strong as other features of his performance and restricts his rating to Band 7.5"

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0:00 Do you work or are you a student?

0:08 What work do you do?

0:18 Do you meet interesting people in your country?


0:27 How long have you been doing this sort of work?


1:18 What did you do the last time you met your friends?

1:35 In what ways are your friends important to you?

1:55 What kind of food do you like to eat?

2:38 Do you like cooking?

3:20 What was the last meal you cooked?

3:33 What kind of people become famous in your country?

4:21 Why do you think politicians and movie stars become famous in your country?

5:05 How would you compare famous people today with famous people of the past?

5:38 Do you think famous people in the past behaved better?


6:02 What kind of people do you think will become famous in the future?


6:50 How are famous people used in advertising?