IELTS Reading Raw Score Conversion
39 Out of 40 in IELTS Reading
Scoring 39 out of 40 equals Band 9.0 in Academic Reading and Band 8.5 in General Training Reading, achieving 97.5% test accuracy.
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Academic Band Score
9.0
CEFR Level:C2
Expert User (Band 9.0)
Band 9.0 Performance Description (39 / 40)
Outstanding academic reading comprehension. You easily decipher dense scholarly discourse, complex statistical descriptions, and deeply veiled authorial viewpoints.
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Strengths at 39/40
- •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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