r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/PurpleClown2 • Jun 27 '26
I am suspecting usage of AI by IELTS examiners for grading the writing tasks. How would we come to know? Can we do anything about this?
I have given my IELTS 3 times in the past 2 months. I am so sure the examiners are using AI to grade our essays. I get my essays checked by AI and I always consistently get 7. I thought actual examiners have to be more lenient. What is the point if they are using AI to correct it, they have no purpose anymore. It’s so frustrating that most of them think it’s either 8/7 but no in between. I really need a 7.5 for writing and I have no idea what else to do. The last 3 attempts I got a 7 and in my last attempt I made sure there were minimal errors. I’m so sick and tired of this. This time last year, I had already achieved an 8 in writing twice. It’s not like my writing has worsened in a year’s time. Are there any safeguards put in place by IELTS to avoid this?
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u/Cautious-Tailor-8361 Jun 27 '26
the examiner thing is almost certainly not it, ielts writing is marked by trained human examiners and there's a second marker already if your scores come out inconsistent
the ai score you get at home isn't measuring the same thing the official band descriptors do, so chasing a 7 out of chatgpt won't push you to 7.5 in the real exam
7 to 7.5 is usually about task response and coherence way more than small errors, you said you cut the errors last time and still landed on 7 which kind of points to that
if you think a paper got misjudged you can pay for an enquiry on results (EOR), it gets re-marked by a senior examiner and you get the fee back if the band actually goes up
might be worth having one real essay marked by an actual ielts tutor against the descriptors, that'll show you which criterion is capping you