IELTS examiners use at least four subcategories when assessing a candidate speaking. Fluency and coherence refers to the ability to talk with normal levels of continuity, rate and effort. Continuity refers to your ability to keep talking without pausing and stopping to think. Rate is basically your words to time ratio. And then we'll look at the descriptions of different scores for each category.

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