🦊 IELTS score breakdown/remark lifehack 🦊

Use this lifehack to get as much information out of your IELTS score as possible (and/or to bring some entertainment into your dull life).

1. Take the test.
2. Apply for a score breakdown immediately after you get your result.
3. Wait for 5 weeks (or even for 5 weeks and 4 days if you are a daredevil). Then apply for a remark, which you can do within 6 weeks of sitting your test.
4. Apply for a score breakdown again.

This way you will have two score breakdowns on the same answer, i.e. more information. If you apply for a remark immediately after the exam, most likely you will get the score breakdown for the remark only, so you will only have one score breakdown, i.e. less information.

How is this useful? Let's consider my two score breakdowns for speaking from the exam on 1 October: 8888 before the remark and 9998 after the remark. So, I see that one weakness persists - pronunciation. (I am still looking for an American pronunciation coach, btw. 🇺🇸)

This lifehack, apart from giving you more information about your IELTS score, is guaranteed to bring some thrill into your life. Don't I know it.

PS:
- Your score does not go down from a remark. It will either remain unchanged or increase.
- Remarks are done by senior examiners.
- The examiners doing the remarks don't know your original score.
- Score breakdowns are not given by test centers. They are given by BC or IDP - ask me how to get one if you don't know.