IELTS Speaking Part 3: Hobbies (Band 3)

Examiner Comments on Candidate Band 3 This candidate is unable to keep going and her responses are limited to short, simple utterances that convey little information. Her speech is hesitant and repetitive with frequent corrections, and punctuated by very long pauses while she searches for language. She uses simple vocabulary and seems dependent on the language of the question, indicating that her range is not sufficient for less personal topics. She can produce some basic structures, but many of these are short, easily memorised phrases (Many Koreans like; it is helpful; it is important). She rarely completes any accurate grammatical sentences. She attempts a very limited range of simple sentence forms with a lot of effort. Her pronunciation is relatively clear, but the samples of speech are so short that there is only evidence of a limited range of acceptable features and this limits the band. This candidate’s pronunciation is a slightly stronger feature, but this is not enough to raise her above Band 3.