IELTS GENERAL POINTS

[ind2]

I appeared for IELTS and got list 5, Reading 6, writing 8.5, speaking 9, overall band 7. How much marks do I get. I need 12 to make 67. What does overall band 7 means?

[PMM]

Hi

I appeared for IELTS and got list 5, Reading 6, writing 8.5, speaking 9, overall band 7. How much marks do I get. I need 12 to make 67. What does overall band 7 means?

You get 11 see: page 10  http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/guides/EG7.pdf

PMM

[BobbyB]

I appeared for IELTS and got list 5, Reading 6, writing 8.5, speaking 9, overall band 7. How much marks do I get. I need 12 to make 67. What does overall band 7 means?

Respect: You made a 9 in Speaking (BRAVO).
List: 1
Writ:4
Read:2
Speaking:4

 10.8.     International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

Test score equivalency chart (applications received or test reports dated after November 28, 2008)

      Level            Points                          Test results for each ability

                    (per ability)

                                       Listening          Reading           Writing          Speaking

                                                          (General          (General
                                                          training)         training)

       High          First official     7.5 - 9.0         6.5 - 9.0         6.5 - 9.0         6.5 - 9.0
                    language: 4
   (CLB/SLC

      8- 12)

                   Second official
                    language: 2

    Moderate          First and         5.5 - 7.0         5.0 – 6.0         5.5 - 6.0         5.5 - 6.0
                   second official
 (CLB/SLC 6- 7)
                      language

 Basic           First and                4.5 – 5.0         3.5 – 4.5         4.0 – 5.0         4.0 – 5.0
                   second official
 (CLB/SLC 4- 5)
                      language

                       1 (to a
                   maximum of 2)

 No proficiency       First and      Less than 4.5     Less than 3.5    Less than 4.0     Less than 4.0
                   second official
 (CLB/SLC 1- 3)
                     language 0

[ind2]

Thanks BobbyB. What does overall 7 means? What impact it has on overall marks for immigration score calculation. Does it still remains 11 or higher.

[BobbyB]

Thanks BobbyB. What does overall 7 means? What impact it has on overall marks for immigration score calculation. Does it still remains 11 or higher.

Though not 100% sure, I personally think that the overall Grade is of no importance to the immigration process. It is the cumulative result of the points(L+R+W+S) achieved that they are interested in.

I may be wrong though. Let's see what opinion others have.

[vamsi001]

Bobby you are right,
Your cummulative score has nothing to do with the mark you are given for language ability. They are only interested in what you score per module and they award you marks based on what you score in each of the modules.
Ok, i will make it clearer to you.
They returned my original ielts result with my visa and the IO made a note on it.
I got 6.5 in Listening, 6.0 in Reading, 8.0 in Writing and 7.5 in Speaking.
Overall band score =7.0
The I.O made a note like this:
'listening=2, reading=2, writing=4, speaking=4. Total point scored for language ability=12.'
This is why i realised that they don't use the cummulative band score. They only award you points based on what you get in each of the modules.
Therefore ,ind2, you will be awarded 11points.

[BobbyB]

Hey Vamsi001,
Are you the Guy from Nigeria, that  landed just a few weeks back? If yes, where were you in Naija?

BobbyB

[ind2]

Thanks BobbyB and Vamsi001. I got it. I will have to reappear. I need 12 points for my application to go through the magic 67.

[BobbyB]

Thanks BobbyB and Vamsi001. I got it. I will have to reappear. I need 12 points for my application to go through the magic 67.

Good luck.

[vamsi001]

Hey Vamsi001,
Are you the Guy from Nigeria, that  landed just a few weeks back? If yes, where were you in Naija?

BobbyB

Yes Bobby, actually i left nigeria for U.K in 2004. My wife was in Abuja working for a bank, she was waiting for me at abuja international airport as we emmigrated together. We only had 4days to land! Visa office was london. Got our visas on 31/7/09 (around 2p.m). Valid till 4/8/09. I didn't want to risk sending her passport by DHL/feedex as it might take roughly another 3-4days by then the visa would have expired. So i had to fly from london to abuja, picked my wife up then we flew together to canada. Have you been following my story?

[BobbyB]

Hey Vamsi001,
Are you the Guy from Nigeria, that  landed just a few weeks back? If yes, where were you in Naija?

BobbyB

Yes Bobby, actually i left nigeria for U.K in 2004. My wife was in Abuja working for a bank, she was waiting for me at abuja international airport as we emmigrated together. We only had 4days to land! Visa office was london. Got our visas on 31/7/09 (around 2p.m). Valid till 4/8/09. I didn't want to risk sending her passport by DHL/feedex as it might take roughly another 3-4days by then the visa would have expired. So i had to fly from london to abuja, picked my wife up then we flew together to canada. Have you been following my story?

Hi Vamsi,
Thank you for getting back to me.
Actually, I also lived in Nigeria for almost 20 Years ( IKARE AKOKO, IJEBU-ODE, KANO and LAGOS). That was why I was asking you. I emigrated as a Kid with my parents when I was (about 3.5 Years old). I then left in October1989 to Germany from Kano.  I now live in the UK (since early 2004).


So where are you in Canada? Toronto?


Yeah Man, I remember you giving members of the forum a valuable piece of advice with regards to you getting married and the after effect.

[vamsi001]

Hi Vamsi,
Thank you for getting back to me.
Actually, I also lived in Nigeria for almost 20 Years ( IKARE AKOKO, IJEBU-ODE, KANO and LAGOS). That was why I was asking you. I emigrated as a Kid with my parents when I was (about 3.5 Years old). I then left in October1989 to Germany from Kano.  I now live in the UK (since early 2004).
So where are you in Canada? Toronto?
Yeah Man, I remember you giving members of the forum a valuable piece of advice with regards to you getting married and the after effect.

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Good to know you also lived in nigeria. I now live in Toronto with my wife. Since we landed it's being all summer here! What stage are you with your application?

[BobbyB]

Good to know you also lived in nigeria. I now live in Toronto with my wife. Since we landed it's being all summer here! What stage are you with your application?

I applied in 2007 (05/11/2007) via the (OLD)Simplified Application Process. Still waiting for the documents update letter. I think I still have a few months to wait.