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TOEFL vs IELTS
Score Comparison

How IELTS Academic bands line up with TOEFL iBT 1–6 scores, using ETS's official comparison table.

📖TOEFL iBT · 1–6 Scale
VS
★IELTS Academic · 0–9 Scale
Score converter
Pick a score. The result comes straight from ETS's table, which covers IELTS 4.0–9.0.

One direction only. ETS publishes this table in one direction: an IELTS band and the TOEFL scores it lines up with. The TOEFL → IELTS side shows which rows of the same table share a TOEFL total; ETS does not publish a separate TOEFL-to-IELTS conversion.

TOEFL iBT total (1–6)
4.0 CEFR B2
Reading 3.5 · Listening 3.5 · Writing 4.0 · Speaking 3.5
IELTS bands ETS lines up with this total
6.0
CEFR B2
Official comparison table
TOEFL Score Scale (1-6) v. IELTS for tests taken on or after January 21, 2026. TOEFL scores on the 1–6 scale.
IELTSReadingListeningWritingSpeakingTOEFL totalCEFR
9.06.06.06.06.06.0C2
8.55.56.06.06.06.0C2
8.05.55.56.06.06.0C2
7.55.05.05.55.05.5C1
7.04.55.05.04.55.0C1
6.54.04.54.54.04.5B2
6.03.53.54.03.54.0B2
5.53.53.03.03.03.5B1
5.03.02.52.02.52.5A2
4.52.51.51.52.02.0A2
4.01.01.01.01.51.5A1

Source: ETS, TOEFL Score Scale Update: A Guide for Institutions — “TOEFL Score Scale (1-6) v. IELTS for tests taken on or after January 21, 2026”. CEFR levels are ETS's for the TOEFL score. Checked 2026-10-14. ETS's table covers IELTS 4.0–9.0 only.

TOEFL iBT 2026
Reading50 items · 30 min Complete Words, Daily Life, Academic
Listening47 items · 29 min Conversations, Talks, Announcements
Writing12 items · 23 min Build Sentence, Email, Discussion
Speaking11 items · 8 min Listen & Repeat, Interview
Total~2 hours · Score 1–6
IELTS Academic
Reading40 items · 60 min 3 long academic passages
Listening40 items · 30 min 4 recordings (mono + dialogue)
Writing2 tasks · 60 min Task 1: Graph/chart · Task 2: Essay
Speaking3 parts · 11–14 min Face-to-face with examiner
Total~2h 45min · Band 0–9
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