IELTS Writing Score Estimation (Without Examples) - Correlation: leaderboard

Metric: Pearson correlation (-1 to 1), higher is better; predicted writing bands versus reported examiner scores on 400 Task 2 essays, without 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-4o0.72#335
2Llama 3 70B Instruct0.63#624

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

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