
Explore common IELTS FAQs, including center options (British Council vs IDP), UKVI differences, general vs academic formats, scoring bands, test day logistics, allowances, fees, retakes, results timing, and security.
Explore the IELTS reading exam basics, academic vs general training, one-hour duration, and transferring answers to the orange answer sheet. Review three sections and text lengths up to 900 words.
Explore how IELTS reading scores are calculated, the 40-question format across academic and general training, and practical tips for question order, guessing, and note-taking on paper or computer.
Master the IELTS listening exam by understanding its four sections, timing, and transfer rules, and follow pencil-only, capitalization, and word limits for both general and academic listening.
Explore IELTS listening using past papers from 2005–2018, with real-exam techniques and four sections, covering travel, camping, management, and rock art topics.
Explore IELTS listening test strategies through a candid feedback video that shows activating world knowledge, avoiding unnecessary note-taking, and efficient section-by-section processing.
Explore the IELTS speaking exam by outlining parts one to three, timings, and key skills such as fluency, coherence, cohesion, hedging, hypothetical reasoning, and giving reasons.
Before you watch the candidate do the IELTS Speaking exam, see if you can answer the questions that come up. You'll compare what you do here with your performance at the end of this section — you should see a big improvement.
Deliver feedback on Yuriy’s speaking performance, highlighting fluency, coherence, grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Include concrete corrections on tense use, word choices, collocations, and dictionary strategies.
Now repeat the same task from the beginning of this section. Can you see how much you've improved?
Generate a large set of essay ideas in four minutes using a visualizing grid, then structure a focused main body paragraph that presents a clear point of view with evidence.
Learn to work out the context before reading by using condensed information from pictures and headings, activate your schemata, and visualize imagery to boost comprehension in exams.
Practice IELTS reading test #2 with passages on a Scottish landscape photographer, building ventilation history, and disorder in organizations. Learn true/false/not given strategies and answer checking in the next video.
Learn about why this task type is very common in the IELTS Listening exam, and how to go about answering this task type.
Before you watch the candidate do the IELTS Speaking exam, see if you can answer the questions that come up. You'll compare what you do here with your performance at the end of this section — you should see a big improvement.
Practice an IELTS speaking test with Yi, featuring personal questions on background, study plans, photo habits, daily routines, and a weather topic with guided one-to-two minute talk prompts.
This IELTS speaking feedback lecture analyzes a Chinese candidate, stressing final-consonant pronunciation, fillers, idioms, grammar, and strategies for parts two and three to boost fluency.
Demonstrate how to speak formally using an extended response with a four-point structure: main point, clarification, example or reason, and relevance, practiced through peer feedback.
Now repeat the same task from the beginning of this section. Can you see how much you've improved?
Explore how to write a problem-and-solution essay, analyze common exam prompts, and practice using solution phrases, discourse markers, noun form changes, and paragraph development for academic writing.
Review the lecturer's feedback on IELTS general training reading test 3, focusing on true, false, not given questions, answer explanations, and section-specific tips to improve exam performance.
Please note that the answer for Number 1. is NOT "business studies", it is just the word "business".
Before you watch the candidate do the IELTS Speaking exam, see if you can answer the questions that come up. You'll compare what you do here with your performance at the end of this section — you should see a big improvement.
Discover how discourse markers, or sign posters, guide the listener and boost cohesion in IELTS speaking. Practice using examples like so, however, and that said without overusing them.
Now repeat the same task from the beginning of this section. Can you see how much you've improved?
Explore how to tackle IELTS General Training Reading Test #4 by practicing with unseen texts, identifying true/false/not given items, and extracting key details from travel, risk assessment, and leadership sections.
Learn about the most common task type in the IELTS exam — Multiple Choice Version 1
Before you watch the candidate do the IELTS Speaking exam, see if you can answer the questions that come up. You'll compare what you do here with your performance at the end of this section — you should see a big improvement.
Explore connected speech in English, identify weak forms and strong forms, and practice pronunciation through examples like didn't know, looked as if, and put up with.
Now repeat the same task from the beginning of this section. Can you see how much you've improved?
Explore writing a discussion essay, a type of opinion essay, focusing on formal language, passive voice, noun phrases, and expressing someone else's opinion, with practice tasks and model answers.
Explore lexical sets, a cousin of collocations, to predict word options in IELTS reading gap-fill questions. Understand umbrella terms like pets or holidays and boost vocabulary with practical lexical-set exercises.
Practice for the IELTS reading academic test #5, exploring true/false/not given questions while analyzing topics like drought, population growth, wildfires, open space, and housing in California.
Review IELTS general training reading feedback, focusing on avoiding rushing, double-checking answers, and correctly handling true/not given items; enhance accuracy with strategy tips and collocation awareness.
Master spelling with practical tips and double check your spelling during ten-minute review. Computer-graded listening exams require precise spelling, so watch the English spelling training video and practice target words.
Explore how English spelling blends rules from many languages and apply core guidelines for suffixes, prefixes, consonant doubling, final-e rules, y-to-i changes, plurals, and hyphenation.
Practice IELTS listening with test #5, a four-section audio including village hall booking, farm tour, psychology discussion, and ocean biodiversity; learn to answer while listening and transfer responses.
Practice speaking skills for the IELTS exam by answering personal questions, delivering a 1–2 minute talk on waiting, and discussing punctuality, patience, and using technology to arrive on time.
Master IELTS speaking with Phat, a Vietnamese speaker, covering personal questions, health, pets, and a one-to-two-minute topic on waiting, plus timing and patience strategies.
Observe IELTS speaking feedback for a Vietnamese student. Learn examiner commentary on pronunciation, fluency, grammar, and task responses, plus practical tips to improve score.
Explore pronunciation in English through music, focusing on weak forms, connected speech, and stress-timed rhythm, using Beatles songs like Yellow Submarine to improve fluency and intonation.
Discover honey lexis in reading and how examiners place questions near collocations, idioms, and emphasized phrases, with practical underlining of capitalized words, numbers, and brackets.
Master IELTS listening table completion by using table headings and column titles to anticipate content, while honoring word limits—no numbers up to three words—and ignoring punctuation cues.
Master IELTS listening by navigating four sections, from tourist office conversations to town council talks, student writing discussions, and ethnographic business research, with notes, timings, and transfer of answers.
Engage with a full IELTS listening practice, covering multiple sections and question types, with guidance on answering strategies and feedback to improve performance.
Practice an IELTS speaking test with Emad, answering personal questions, describing a TV documentary about the environment and how to reduce emissions, and analyzing TV programs and advertising.
Record and compare your speaking exam progress, practice answering personal questions, discuss media habits, and describe a TV documentary to boost IELTS speaking performance.
Learn to get feedback on IELTS writing outside class through Facebook and Reddit communities, and use the 'staff text' self-review method to identify gaps and improve accuracy.
Master reading multiple-choice strategies by understanding distractors, choosing the best answer efficiently, and applying a dedicated technique video to simplify this unit’s questions.
Discover practical note-taking strategies for the IELTS reading questions by underlining key phrases and circling important words on the question paper, with no highlighters allowed, using pencils or erasable pens.
Master reading learner training for IELTS: answering true/false/not given questions, converting prompts to questions, and distinguishing facts from opinions with guided practice.
Get feedback and strategies for IELTS reading academic test #7, including scanning for keywords and true/false not given, with passages on play, bike sharing, and hospitality.
Explore IELTS listening accents, including British RP/BBC, American, Australian, and regional varieties like Cockney, Welsh, Scottish, and Estuary English, with notes on connected speech and glottal stops.
Experience IELTS listening test #7 with four sections: a cycling holidays job interview, a sheep market podcast, Shakespeare film adaptations discussion, and a city acoustics lecture.
Explore real-life conversations through the IELTS listening test, including a cycling holiday leader job interview, a New Zealand sheep market podcast, and city noise acoustics.
Watch a Bengali speaker tackle an IELTS speaking test, including a two-minute house description, pronunciation and grammar notes, and everyday topics from self to housing in Bangladesh.
Master another opinion essay by learning how to qualify your opinion with details, discuss future trends, use relative clauses and noun phrases, and apply error-checking checklists.
Master IELTS reading spelling by double checking, transferring from text to question paper to answer sheet, avoiding errors that the automated grader flags.
Step-by-step feedback for IELTS General Training reading test 8 explains the answers with reasons and examples. The video covers various question types, answer strategies, and key concepts from the test.
Discover listening tips and tricks for English intonation in a learner training video, an introduction to the learner training video for intonation, about 40 minutes long.
Practice understanding conversations about library services, travel company training, tourism case studies, and mercury's effects on birds in this IELTS listening test.
Master IELTS speaking skills through guided self-disclosure prompts, a 1-2 minute talk on future ownership, and discuss consumer culture and its impact in a capitalist society.
Explore practical IELTS speaking feedback as Monique from Brazil demonstrates correction strategies, fluency tips, and vocabulary use to boost band scores.
Master double-checking IELTS reading answers to prevent transfer errors and boost accuracy with proofreading techniques, including checking out of order and concentration strategies.
Explore IELTS general training reading test #9 with feedback, covering true/false/not given, loss card procedures, short-answer questions, and bilingualism insights in New Zealand.
Explore IELTS listening summary completion, focusing on sections two to four, dealing with long texts, grammar-aware fill-ins, and gaps within sentences.
Explore honey lexis in IELTS listening, using emphasis, collocations, and referencing words with intonation to locate answers and sharpen listening skills.
Master IELTS listening with feedback-driven practice across sections 1 to 4. Learn note-taking, answer-checking, and question-transfer strategies to boost accuracy.
Practice speaking for the IELTS exam by answering personal questions on work, music, travel, and delivering a 1–2 minute talk about a local shop, plus business topics.
Assess Deepika's IELTS speaking feedback, emphasizing fluency, lexical resources, grammar, and pronunciation, with notes on her Sri Lankan background, nursing context, and performance across parts 2 and 3.
Improve your IELTS speaking by recording practice responses, comparing early and current performances, and delivering 1–2 minute talks on self, travel, music, and a local shop, plus local business discussions.
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