FOR EXAM TEACHERS
Examiner-style feedback for every student, in a fraction of the marking time.
IELTSCambridge B2 FirstCAECPEMichigan ECCEECPEGeneral English A1–B1Your school’s own courses
Bandwise drafts practice scores and written feedback for Writing and Speaking, criterion by criterion, with a clear next step for each. You review and adjust it, then give students a report they can act on and a progress record they can see improving.
Free during early access, with AI marking included. No API key needed.
- Next steps for every criterion
- Reports under your brand
- You review every score
- Student data stored in the EU
AI estimate
6.5/ 9Target band 7.0
Strength A clear position, kept from the introduction to the conclusion.
Next step Support each main idea with a specific example or a result.
Teacher confirms before it counts
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps from submission to feedback
- 1Add your students
Name, the exams they’re preparing for and a target for each (for IELTS, also the test type and any university minimum). Group them into classes if you like.
- 2Upload or record
A photo or PDF of an essay, a speaking recording, or a Reading, Use of English or Listening raw score. Or set one task for a whole class and add each student’s work as it comes in.
- 3Review and share
Check the scores and feedback, edit anything you disagree with, add your own notes, then print the report, send the student a private link, or email them their progress.
EXAMS WE MARK
Marked on each exam’s own criteria
Every exam is marked on its official criteria and scales, and students prepare for several at once if they need to. Classes that aren’t preparing for an exam get General English Writing, marked at their CEFR level. Schools can add their own courses too.
IELTS
Academic and General TrainingA band and feedback on each criterion for Writing Task 1, Task 2 and Speaking, plus instant Reading and Listening bands.
IELTS markingCambridge
A2 KeyB1 PreliminaryB2 FirstB2 First for SchoolsC1 AdvancedC2 ProficiencyWriting and Speaking marked on Cambridge’s own subscales, with a pass-standard verdict and a Cambridge English Scale estimate.
Cambridge markingMichigan
ECCEECPEWriting and Speaking on the rating scale criteria, with a pass-standard verdict and an estimate on the 0–1000 scale.
Michigan markingGeneral English
CEFR A1A2B1One grade for how well a text shows writing at the student’s level, out of 10, 20 or 100, with every mistake corrected and explained.
General English markingYour own courses
Placement, end-of-term and in-house examsYour own criteria, scales and rubric, with Bandwise AI checked against your teachers’ scores before it marks for them.
Your own coursesWHAT YOUR STUDENTS GET
Feedback students can act on, not just a number
Every assessment turns into written feedback you can check, edit and hand over. Nothing reaches a student until you have reviewed it.
A score for each criterion
The exam’s official criteria, each with its own score: from Task Response and Lexical Resource in IELTS to Communicative Achievement in Cambridge exams and Authorial Voice in ECPE.
Evidence from their own work
Each band is explained with short quotes from the essay or recording, so students can see exactly what earned it.
A next step for every criterion
Concrete advice on what to change next time. You also get their main strengths and top priorities, ready to talk through in class.
Maria K. · Writing Task 2 · Cities and car ownership
Practice estimate: 6.5 / 9
A clear, relevant answer with a consistent position. Ideas need fuller development, and a few complex sentences lose control.
Task Response: 6.5
A clear position is stated (“I partly agree”) and kept throughout, but the second main idea is listed rather than developed.
Next step: Support each main idea with a specific example or a result, not only a statement.
Lexical Resource: 7.0
Good range for the topic (“congestion charge”, “public transport network”), with occasional repetition of “cars”.
Next step: Vary how you refer to the key subject: “private vehicles”, “drivers”, “car owners”.
+ Coherence and Cohesion, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and your notes
Made with Bandwise
“Great progress this month, Maria. Let’s focus on developing your examples before the mock test.”
Overall band by practice test
+ latest band in each skill, progress in each skill over time, all against their target band
Made with Bandwise
Your brand, not ours
Add your logo, your name or school, and your colour once in Settings. Every printed report and progress email then goes out under your brand, with just a small “Made with Bandwise” line at the end. Students see your service, not a tool.
MISTAKES, FIXED AND EXPLAINED
Turn every mistake into the next lesson
Bandwise marks the mistakes in every essay and speaking test. You check them and add your own, and the student gets their work back corrected, with a reason for every fix and something to practise.
Every mistake, fixed and explained
In essays, and in what students say in a speaking test: each mistake crossed out, corrected and explained in a line, with the ones that keep coming up named.
Your marks too
Select any words to add your own mark, change or remove any of the AI’s, or mark an essay yourself with no AI at all. The report says who marked them.
Say it better
Beyond the mistakes: a few ways to word the essay more precisely or naturally, one step above the student’s level. Keep the ones you like.
Practice from their own mistakes
A printable sheet of the student’s own sentences with the mistakes still in them, to write out correctly, and an answers page. No AI needed.
Mistakes over time
Each kind of mistake per 100 words, essay by essay, so you and the student can see what is improving and what still needs work.
A private link for the student
Share a reviewed report as a link that works for 7, 30 or 90 days, or email it from your own address. Turn it off whenever you like.
Maria K. · Cities and car ownership
G grammar · V vocabulary · Sp spelling · P punctuation · SS sentence structure
Nowadays, many people believes people believe1G that technology have has2G made our lifes lives3Sp easier. In this essay I In this essay, I4P will discuss both views. For example, people can now make do5V their shopping online.
Mistakes that come up again
Subject and verb. Check that each verb agrees with its subject: people believe, technology has.
- 1Grammar
people believes→ people believePlural subject, plural verb.
- 3Spelling
lifes→ livesLife becomes lives in the plural.
- 4Punctuation
In this essay I→ In this essay, IPut a comma after an opening phrase.
+ 2 more, each with its reason
Say it better
Register “Nowadays” → These days. Sounds a little more natural in an essay.
Made with Bandwise
Fix your own mistakes
Each sentence is from your writing and still has its mistakes. The note under it says how many and what kind. Write the sentence out correctly on the lines.
- 1
Nowadays, many people believes that technology have made our lifes easier.
3 mistakes: G, Sp - 2
In this essay I will discuss both views.
1 mistake: P - 3
For example, people can now make their shopping online.
1 mistake: V
+ an answers page with every sentence corrected
Made with Bandwise
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Everything you mark, in one workspace
Writing
Upload a photo or PDF of a handwritten essay and check the transcription, with Read aloud playing it back as you follow the original. Then get a score, written feedback and a next step for each of the exam’s official criteria.
Speaking
Record the test in the browser or upload a recording. It is assessed from the audio itself, so pronunciation feedback reflects what the student actually said. In paired tests, each student gets their own assessment.
Reading & Listening
Enter the raw score and the result appears at once: an IELTS band, a Cambridge English Scale score (Use of English too), or an estimate on Michigan’s 0–1000 scale. Then combine a full practice test into an overall band, grade or certificate estimate.
Progress tracking
Each student’s history per skill and exam, their latest criterion profile against their target, and for IELTS a flag when practice falls below their university’s minimum band.
Set work for a whole class
Give a class one task, or a Reading or Listening test, with a due date. See who has handed in and who is overdue, upload the whole class’s essays at once, then transcribe and assess them all in one go.
Every report in one go
Download the whole class’s reviewed reports as one PDF, ready to print and hand out, in colour or black and white. Or send each student a private link or a progress report from your own address.
Your classes, organised
Put your students into classes and see each class at a glance: how many students it has, their exams, recent work and what is still waiting for your review.
AI drafts that follow your marking
See where your reviewed scores differ from Bandwise AI’s, criterion by criterion. If you choose, new drafts are adjusted towards how you mark, and each adjusted draft says so.
Help when you need it
A guided tour has you mark a sample student’s essay from start to finish, using no credits. After that, ask Bandy, the help assistant at the bottom right of every page, how to do anything in Bandwise, or write to us.
Know how each student writes without help
Tick Written in class, supervised on work done in class, and Bandwise builds each student’s writing profile: typical length, sentence length, vocabulary range, scores and recurring mistakes. When homework looks different, compare it with their class writing. You get specific differences, quoted from both, and questions to ask the student about their essay. It’s a prompt for a conversation, not a verdict: it never claims to detect AI, and it stays with you, out of reports. Comparing is an extra AI request that uses 1 more credit.
FOR SCHOOLS
Bring your whole school onto one account
Teachers keep marking the way they do now. A school admin sets up the teachers and classes, and sees how every student is doing, all under your school’s name.
Your teachers, one account
Invite teachers by email. They join when they sign in, and teachers already on Bandwise bring their students once they accept. You can pause a seat or hand a teacher’s students to a colleague when they leave.
Classes
Create classes, give each one a teacher and add students. Move a student or a whole class to another teacher and their work moves with them. School admins can teach classes too.
A dashboard for the whole school
Every student’s latest scores against their target, who is behind, and which work is still waiting for a teacher’s review. Open any report read-only, by teacher or by class.
One brand on every report
Set your school’s logo, name and colour once. Every teacher’s reports and progress emails carry it, and your colour appears across the studio.
Shared AI credits
One monthly pool for the school, with an optional cap for each teacher so no single class uses it all. A group of schools can pay once and share its credits between branches.
Your data, in the EU
Stored in the EU, with an encrypted backup of the database every night, and exportable at any time: students, results and reports for the whole school in one download.
Admins see every class; teachers see their own
Setting up a school account
We set up school accounts by hand during early access. Tell us your school’s name and roughly how many teachers you have, and we’ll get you started.
YOUR OWN COURSES
Your own courses, marked the way your teachers mark
Placement tests, end-of-term exams, an academic writing rubric or your own mocks: set them up in Bandwise and teach Bandwise AI to mark them like your teachers do. No AI model is trained on your work: your rubric, prompts and marked essays shape only your school’s marking.
Your own courses, a test bank and marking like your teachers
Your own rubrics and weighted criteria, a test bank of your prompts, and a check of Bandwise AI against your teachers’ scores. These come with a school account and are switched on for each school. See how it works, or tell us about your courses and we’ll set you up.
You stay the examiner
Estimates are a starting point, not a verdict. Bandwise flags what it cannot judge, shows the evidence for each criterion, and nothing reaches a report until you have reviewed it. How Bandwise AI works.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked
Which exams does Bandwise support?
IELTS, Cambridge A2 Key (KET), B1 Preliminary (PET), B2 First, B2 First for Schools, C1 Advanced (CAE) and C2 Proficiency (CPE), and the Michigan ECCE and ECPE: Writing, Speaking, Reading and Listening for each (and Use of English for Cambridge B2 First and above), with an overall result from a full practice test. For classes not preparing for an exam, General English Writing gives one grade for writing at the student’s CEFR level, A1, A2 or B1. A student can prepare for more than one exam, each with its own target. Schools can also add their own courses, with their own criteria and rubric.
Can Bandwise tell if a student used AI?
No, and nothing can do that reliably: AI detectors often flag learners of English wrongly. Instead, Bandwise shows how a piece of homework compares with the student’s own supervised class writing, with specific differences and questions you can ask them in class. You talk with the student and decide. The comparison is for you only and never appears in their report.
Is this an official exam score?
No. Bandwise gives a practice estimate to support your own judgement. You review, adjust and confirm every score before a student sees it.
Can I set the same task for a whole class?
Yes. Choose a class (or any of your students preparing for the same exam), the task and its prompt, and each student gets their own copy waiting for their work. You see who has handed in, and nothing is sent to the AI until you ask.
Does Bandwise correct students’ mistakes?
Yes, in essays and in speaking tests. Each mistake is crossed out, corrected and explained in a line: grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and sentence structure in an essay, and grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure in what a student said, marked on the recording’s transcript. For essays it can also suggest better wording. You check every score, add or change your own, and only what you keep reaches the student. Having Bandwise AI mark the mistakes, or suggest better wording, uses 1 more credit each; marking them yourself, practice sheets and the mistakes-over-time chart use none.
Can students see their report online?
Yes. Share a reviewed report as a private link: the student opens it on any device without an account and can download it as a PDF. It works for 7, 30 or 90 days, you can turn it off at any time, and it stops while you reopen the review. You can email the link from your own address.
Do I need an AI account or API key?
No. AI marking is built in: every account includes a monthly allowance of Bandwise AI credits, where a writing assessment uses 1 and a speaking test 3, and marking an essay’s mistakes or suggesting better wording 1 more each.
Can Bandwise mark our school’s own courses the way our teachers do?
Yes, with a school account. Set up your own courses with your own criteria, scales and rubric, keep your prompts in a test bank, and add essays your teachers have already marked. Bandwise checks how close its scores come to your teachers’, and tries example essays, a marking tip or moving its scores on your other essays before offering them; you switch on only what helps. No AI model is trained on your work, and your marking shapes only your school’s results. These features are switched on for each school: email us to start.
Can our whole school use Bandwise?
Yes. With a school account, a school admin invites your teachers, organises students into classes, and sees every class’s progress in one dashboard, with your school’s brand on every report and one shared pool of AI credits. Email us to set one up.
What does it cost?
Nothing during early access. Paid plans will come later; we’ll tell you well in advance, and you’ll only pay if you choose a plan.
Where is student work stored?
On Cloudflare, in private storage in the EU, with an encrypted backup of the database every night. Each teacher has a separate workspace; in a school account, the school’s admins can also see their school’s students. You can export your data or delete your account yourself at any time. Work is sent to an AI provider only when you ask for an assessment, and it isn’t used to train AI models.
Does it include exam test material?
No. You upload your students’ own work. You give each piece of work your own title; no test passages, audio or questions from any exam are stored or reproduced.
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