Band Gap Checker
September 1, 2026 2026-09-01 15:01Band Gap Checker
DAT Academy / Canada Immigration
Express Entry · language points
The band gap checker
Half a band can be worth forty five points.
Canada does not score your IELTS band. It converts each of your four abilities onto a benchmark scale and then pays you in steps. Between two steps you earn nothing extra. The moment you cross one, the score jumps.
Most people prepare evenly across all four sections. That is usually the wrong strategy. Move the sliders and watch where your points actually are.
Points driven by your English
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Weakest ability
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This is not your full CRS score. It shows only the points your English result controls: your language block, plus the two skill transferability combinations that are gated by your benchmark level. Your age, education, spouse and additional points sit on top of this. What this tool is built to show you is where the steps are, because that is the part almost everyone gets wrong.
Accepted → IELTS General Training · CELPIP General · PTE Core
Not accepted → IELTS Academic · PTE Academic · TOEFL · OET · Duolingo
Not accepted → IELTS Academic · PTE Academic · TOEFL · OET · Duolingo
Knowing the gap is the easy part. Closing it is the work.
Send us your CV and we will tell you what your real score is, which positions actually count, and whether the category you are aiming at will still be open when you get there.
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