IELTS Reading Raw Score Conversion
38 Out of 40 in IELTS Reading
Scoring 38 out of 40 equals Band 8.5 in Academic Reading and Band 8.0 in General Training Reading, achieving 95% test accuracy.
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Academic Band Score
8.5
CEFR Level:C2
Very Good User (Band 8.5)
Band 8.5 Performance Description (38 / 40)
Outstanding academic reading comprehension. You easily decipher dense scholarly discourse, complex statistical descriptions, and deeply veiled authorial viewpoints.
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Want to reach Band 9.0 in IELTS Reading?
You only need 1 more correct answer in Academic Reading to reach Band 9.0.
Required Raw Score39 / 40+1 correct answers
✓
Strengths at 38/40
- •Rapid skimming of scientific and humanities literature
- •Effortless disambiguation of False vs Not Given questions
- •Mastery of matching headings under intense time pressure
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Focus Areas for Improvement
- •Avoiding rare careless spelling typos on fill-in-the-blank summary questions
- •Double-checking restrictive word qualifiers (e.g. solely, always, rarely)
Actionable Drills to Increase Accuracy
1
Practice timed 50-minute drills (10 min faster than the 60-min official limit)
2
Audit any single wrong question by cross-referencing lexical paraphrasing in the text
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