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Two tests, one app
Pick the test you're sitting first. Listening and Speaking are identical either way. Reading and Writing differ — Academic uses long passages and a data-description task, General Training uses everyday texts and a letter — and you can switch anytime; scores are kept separately.
Choose your test
This changes Reading and Writing. Listening and Speaking stay the same.
Listening
Same in both4 parts, 40 questions, ~30 minutes. Spoken audio with a different voice per speaker.
Reading
DiffersAcademic: 3 long passages from journals, books and reports — 40 questions in 60 minutes.
General Training: 3 sections of social, workplace and general-interest texts — 40 questions in 60 minutes.
Writing
DiffersAcademic: Task 1 describes a chart, table, graph or process (150 words). Task 2 is an essay (250 words).
General Training: Task 1 is a letter — formal, semi-formal or personal (150 words). Task 2 is an essay (250 words).
Speaking
Same in both3 parts, 11–14 minutes: interview, long turn from a task card, then discussion.
Illustration of the in-app test-type picker.
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The real exam structure
Every set follows the real format — Listening (4 parts, 40 questions, ~30 min), Reading (3 passages/sections, 40 questions, 60 min), Writing (2 tasks, 60 min), Speaking (3 parts, 11–14 min) — all pulled from one shared definition, so practice can't quietly drift from the real exam.
| Section | Format | Questions | Time |
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| Listening | 4 parts, played once | 40 | 30 min |
| Reading | 3 passages (Academic) or 3 sections (General Training) | 40 | 60 min |
| Writing | 2 tasks — Task 1 (150 words), Task 2 (250 words) | 2 tasks | 60 min |
| Speaking | 3 parts — interview, long turn, discussion | 3 parts | 11–14 min |
| Whole test | Four sections, one sitting | 80 + 2 tasks | ~2 h 45 min |
The same numbers drive every timer and score in the app.
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Listening with real audio
Every script is spoken with Google Cloud text-to-speech, one voice per speaker, so it sounds like a real conversation rather than a narrator reading both halves. As in the real exam, it plays once — generated fresh each time, never a stale recording.
Listening · Part 1 · Everyday conversation
Questions 1–10 · form and note completion
Plays once, like the real exam. Replay is disabled during a timed section.
- Narratoren-GB · neutral
- Receptionist (now speaking)en-GB · voice A
- Calleren-AU · voice B
One voice per speaker, assigned per set — so you learn to follow who is talking.
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Reading question types that match the exam
You get the real question types — True/False/Not Given, Yes/No/Not Given, matching headings, sentence and note completion, multiple choice — passage beside the questions just like the paper test, marked against a key that's strict on wording but forgiving on case and spacing.
Passage 1 — The return of the urban tram
City transport planners spent much of the twentieth century removing tram networks, which were widely regarded as obstacles to the private car. By 1962 fewer than a dozen British cities still operated a tram line, and most of those closed within a decade.
The reversal since the 1990s has been striking. Modern light-rail schemes are sold on capacity rather than nostalgia: a single vehicle can carry the passengers of several buses, and the fixed route is said to attract investment along its length. Whether that investment is created or merely relocated remains contested among economists.
Question 3 · True / False / Not Given
British tram closures in the 1960s were caused mainly by a fall in passenger numbers.
The passage says closures happened, not why. Nothing states a cause — so the answer is Not Given, not False.
Passage on the left, questions on the right — and the explanation after you submit.
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Writing and Speaking, graded
Writing and Speaking are graded against the four official band descriptors — not a word count or keyword list. You get a band per criterion, an averaged task band, and feedback tied to your own sentences, not generic advice.
Writing Task 2 · your response, graded
268 words · 38 minutes · graded against the public band descriptors
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Task Response6.5
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Coherence and Cohesion6.0
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Lexical Resource7.0
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Grammatical Range and Accuracy6.5
Task band
6.5
Mean of the four criteria
Estimate
Strengths
- Clear position stated in the introduction and held to the end.
- Good topic-specific vocabulary: congestion charging, marginal cost.
- Both views are addressed, as the prompt requires.
Improvements
- Paragraph 3 introduces two ideas — split it so each has one.
- Overuses Moreover; vary the linking between paragraphs.
- Three article slips (the government spend → spends).
Per-criterion bands plus feedback tied to your sentences. Bands are an estimate, not an official score.
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20 practice sets per part, 20 full exams
Drill one part at a time (20 sets per part) or sit a full timed exam (20 available). Comprehension is marked out of 40 and converted to a band estimate. Set 1 of every part is free — no account needed.
Listening · Part 2 · choose a set
20 sets · 10 questions each · ~8 minutes
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Set 1 of every part is free; the rest is included with a membership.
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Track your band over time
The app works without an account — signing in adds a dashboard: your best band per section, an estimated overall, and your trend over time, rounded the way IELTS rounds (.25 and up rounds to the next half or whole band).
Listening
6.5
best of 5 attempts
Reading
6.5
best of 4 attempts
Writing
6.0
best of 3 attempts
Speaking
6.0
best of 2 attempts
(6.5 + 6.5 + 6.0 + 6.0) ÷ 4 = 6.25 → an average ending in .25 rounds up, so the overall is reported as 6.5, not 6.0.
Last eight attempts — most recent on the right.
Section bests, an estimated overall, and the trend behind it.
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Use the left and right arrow keys to move between tour steps.
Sit a full demo exam — free, no account
All four sections, real timing, spoken Listening audio and graded Writing. You'll know within one sitting whether this is the practice you want.