IELTS remark and success rate — View from Vietnam
How Often Are Requests for an IELTS Rescore Successful? — It is so hard to answer because of various objective aspect as well as subjective feeling.
No matter what kind of test you do, any examination has its own unique challenge. Sometimes, even though you study as hard as you can, you still do not get a score is as high as you expect and the IELTS examination is unexceptional. IELTS is not an easy test and I truly understand that there is nothing more demotivating than feeling totally positive about how your exam went only to find out you did not get the results you hoped for :)))
I am a Vietnamese student and I was in the same situation when I had received an IELTS score for the second time. Not only me, but other students around my country also get the same problem when the score is not as high as they expected, especially in the speaking band. In some of those cases, you might not do as well as you thought, or it is likely that the examiner got a mark incorrectly. Thus, in the latter case, the best thing to do is apply for a remark (Or apply for the next examination, but I definitely choose the appeal if I was you).
In recent months (From 09/2017–12/2017), most Vietnamese students have complained that their IELTS score is wrong, which is not as true as their real ability.
For a huge number of students who are applying for a remark around the world, it is hard to say about the IELTS appeal success rate, however, in Vietnam, I think this rate tends to be high, at around 70% likely to lead to success. Anyway, I believe that sometimes, the luck is simply on your side.
From a popular perspective, not only in Vietnam but also in most nations in the world, there are two main ideas you need to know:
Firstly, Listening and Reading scores are rarely changed.
It is so funny that most peoples think IELTS reading or listening papers would be checked by a Computer or particular AI lol, the truth is that they are basically checked by local people in an actual centre before being entered into a computer recorded in order to generate band score. The key point is that the answers to the Listening and Reading section are so simple (just one word or a single letter) that do not require special attention or any trouble in defining whether they are correct or not.
As a result, if the score that you are not satisfied with were either for Listening or for Reading, requesting a remark may not make a difference.
Nevertheless, Writing and Speaking might change a lot.
The changed score could be roughly 0,5 to 1.0 which depends on different examiners (The answer requires a cross-examination) and it is so hard to find out whether your score is correct or not. Therefore, the more ideas about your test from different views of different examiners, the more opportunities for you to get a change. Finally, if you are strongly self-confident about your Writing and Speaking test, you should apply for an IELTS appeal.
Last but not least, there is one thing I really wanna remind you that:
In any case, most people in the world who do the test more than once get their expected score. This is not about how many times you do the same test but about what knowledge you could get after the test day.
If you have the money and the time, it is better for you to book more than one test with careful preparation, you will absolutely get a higher score in one of them. I had booked the second IELTS test, and the result was totally better than the first.
Anyway, do not give up under any circumstances.
NguyenDacGiaBao — from Vietnam
