The table illustrates the average IELTS General Test band scores achieved by students from four different language backgrounds (German, French, Indonesian, and Malay) in 2010, broken down by the four testing components and overall scores.
German students generally outperformed other language groups across all skills, while Indonesian candidates typically received the lowest scores. Speaking was consistently the highest-scoring component across all language groups.
Looking at individual skills, German students achieved the highest scores in all categories, with particularly strong performance in speaking (6.9) and listening (6.8). French students followed with relatively consistent scores across all components, ranging from 6.1 in reading to 6.6 in speaking, resulting in an overall score of 6.5.
Indonesian and Malay students showed more varied performance patterns. While Indonesian students scored consistently lower across most components (6.1-6.3), they achieved a notably higher score in speaking (6.7). Similarly, Malay students demonstrated stronger performance in speaking (6.6) and reading (6.4) compared to their writing scores (6.0), which were the lowest among all groups.