Your IELTS speaking score isn't a single number — it's the average of six distinct dimensions. Understanding each one reveals exactly where you need to focus, and why VoiceMentor's multi-dimensional analysis is so powerful.
6 dimensions. One band score. Full picture.
VoiceMentor doesn't just give you a single band score — it breaks down exactly which of 6 dimensions is pulling your average down, so your practice is always targeted.
What VoiceMentor measures
- Accuracy — grammatical correctness and precise word choice
- Fluency — speech rate, pause patterns, and natural flow
- Prosody — intonation, word stress, and rhythm
- Vocabulary — lexical range and collocation quality
- Grammar — tense use, sentence complexity, error rate
- Coherence — logical organization and discourse marker use
Accuracy vs Grammar — what's the difference?
Accuracy measures if you chose the right words: correct prepositions, articles, and collocations ("interested in" not "interested about").
Grammar measures your sentence architecture: tense consistency, subordinate clauses, passive constructions. You can have correct grammar but poor accuracy — and vice versa.
Prosody — the dimension most candidates ignore
Prosody is the music of your speech: where you place stress, how your pitch rises and falls, the rhythm that makes speech sound natural. A monotone speaker scores lower on pronunciation even if every single phoneme is correct — because prosody is part of intelligibility.
Most Band 5–6 candidates are weak on coherence
Examiners consistently report: "Their English is fine but I can't follow the argument." Discourse markers — "however", "what's more", "as a result", "building on that" — are what separate Band 6 from Band 7 speakers. Coherence is learnable in weeks.
See your scores across all 6 dimensions
One practice session in VoiceMentor gives you a full 6-dimension breakdown. You'll know immediately which score is dragging down your average — and exactly what to practice next.