Progress

Progress is everything Bandzen has measured about you. Every figure on it comes from an attempt you completed. Nothing on it is projected.

Estimated band over time

A chart of your marked attempts, oldest first, against the 0–9 scale.

Your overall estimate at the top of the page is the mean of every module you have a band for — up to four, not always two.

Breakdown

A tabbed panel with three views.

By module

All four modules — Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking — each on its own scale, against your target, with its own trend. A module you have not attempted shows "Not measured" rather than a blank or a zero.

Three of these numbers feed anything else: Listening, Reading and Writing are what your study plan compares to decide which skill gets more of your week. Speaking is measured and shown here, but the plan does not act on it yet.

Reading skill matrix

Your accuracy on each question type, across every attempt.

A type only appears with a figure once you have attempted at least 5 questions of it. Below that it says so instead. Two wrong answers out of three is not a weakness, it is a Tuesday — and a recommendation built on it would be a guess wearing a percentage sign.

Patterns

Names the thing that keeps recurring across your attempts rather than the thing that went wrong most recently.

The award wall

Shows all eight awards, earned and unearned, with the rule for each one visible whether or not you have it. See Awards and streaks.

Marked attempts

A list of your recent attempts, each linking to its own review or report — Reading and Listening attempts open the same review shown in How reading is marked; Writing and Speaking attempts open your writing report's shared shell.

Activity

Tests completed, questions attempted, minutes in tests, and lessons finished.

Minutes count time inside timed attempts only. Nothing measures how long you spend reading a lesson, so lesson time is left out rather than estimated. The figure is smaller than the time you have actually put in, and it is honest about what it counts.

What Progress will not show you

There is no projected band and no "you are 0.5 from your target, here is when you will get there" line.

Bandzen has no basis on which to promise a gain. It can tell you what you scored, what you keep getting wrong, and what to do next. A prediction about exam day would be a number with nothing behind it, and this product does not show numbers it cannot defend.