The chart illustrates what scores did students from four language groups take in the IELTS General Test in 2010.
Overall, while German students have higher proficiency in English, Indonesian people generally did not perform as much as others. Additionally, people from all various language groups spoke proficiently during the exam, however, they did not show high performance in reading section.
When it comes to total scores, the highest number belonged to Germans (6.7), which is higher by 0.2 bands than Frenches’ overall score. The grade for Indonesians were nearly same to Malays’ ones for 6.3 and 6.4 relatively.
As for listening, there was 0.6 point gap between the test scores of German and Malays with correspondence to 6.8 and 6.2. Moreover, the figure of French test takers was as large as that of Indonesians with 6.3 for each. In the reading, there is a neglect able discrepancy between the bands of Germans (6.3) and Malays (6.4), and test scores of French (6, 1) and Indonesians were the same.
Regarding the productive language skills, speaking showed the most considerably high figures among other 3 skills. In this section, 0.2 parted the band score of German (6.9) from that of Indonesians with the superiority of the former. The both Malaysians and Frenches showed a similar figure with 6.6. Finally, in the writing exam, Germans possessed higher test score juxtaposed to French students with respective to 6.6 and 6.5. Such discrepancy was the case with Indonesians and Malays, where Indonesian’s score was higher by 0.1 juxtaposed to the band score French people (6.1 for the former and 6.0 for the latter).