IELTS Writing Score Estimation (With Examples) - RMSE: leaderboard

Metric: RMSE in IELTS band points (0-9), lower is better; predicted writing bands versus reported examiner scores on 400 Task 2 essays, with examples, rubric supplied; two ratings with disagreement retry protocol. Source: aclanthology.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 2 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o1.05#335
2Llama 3 70B Instruct1.25#624

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

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