BAND DESCRIPTION AGGREGATED SCORE 260-300 BAND 6 COMMUNICATIVE COMPREHENSION ABILITY Highly proficient user Very fluent; highly

appropriate Very good use of language; hardly any understanding of grammatical error language and context Proficient user Fluent; appropriate use of Good understanding of language; few grammatical language and context error Satisfactory user General fluent; generally Satisfactory appropriate use of language; understanding of some grammatical error language and context Modest user Fairly fluent; fairly appropriate Fair understanding of use of language; many language and context grammatical error Limited user Not fluent; inappropriate use Limited understanding of language; very frequent of language and grammatical error context Very limited user Hardly able to use the Very limited language understanding of language and context USER TASK PERFORMANCE Very high ability to function in the language High ability to function in the language Satisfactory ability to function in the language Fair ability to function in the language Limited ability to function in the language Very limited ability to function in the language

220-259

180-219

140-179

100-139

Below 100