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No account, no payment, no download. Answer the Listening and Reading papers and you get a raw score, an indicative band, a breakdown by question format and an explanation for every single question telling you where the answer was. Your answers save in the browser as you type, so a refresh will not lose an hour of work.

Which module should you sit?

Academic if you are applying to a university, which covers almost every student reading this. General Training for migration to Australia, Canada, the UK or New Zealand, and for some professional registration. Listening and Speaking are identical in both. Reading and Writing are not, and neither is the marking: 30 out of 40 in Reading is a band 7 on Academic and a band 6 on General Training, so practising on the wrong paper will flatter you. Check the module named on your offer letter before you book.

Academic  Exam level

IELTS Academic Practice Test 1

A complete Academic paper: four Listening sections, three Reading passages, both Writing tasks and a full Speaking interview. Listening and Reading are marked the moment you submit, with an explanation for every question that tells you where the answer came from. Writing and Speaking give you the prompts under real timing, with model answers and examiner notes to mark yourself against.

Listening
40 questions
Reading
40 questions
Writing
2 tasks
Speaking
3 parts
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Academic  Exam level

IELTS Academic Practice Test 2

A complete Academic paper covering two formats paper 1 does not: map labelling in Listening Section 2, and a multiple-select question in Reading. Writing Task 1 is a process diagram rather than a data table, which needs a different toolkit again. Listening and Reading are marked the moment you submit, with an explanation for every question.

Listening
40 questions
Reading
40 questions
Writing
2 tasks
Speaking
3 parts
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Academic  Exam level

IELTS Academic Practice Test 3

A complete Academic paper with a heavier distractor load than papers 1 and 2, so it is the better test of whether you are listening to the whole sentence rather than the first number you hear. Introduces table completion in Reading. Writing Task 1 is a table where the interesting pattern is a reversal, which is easy to miss if you describe rows in order.

Listening
40 questions
Reading
40 questions
Writing
2 tasks
Speaking
3 parts
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Academic  Harder than exam level

IELTS Academic Practice Test 4

The hardest paper in the Academic set, and the right one to sit if you are aiming above band 7. Listening Section 3 runs three speakers who disagree and one who changes position; Section 4 uses a flow chart. Reading adds summary completion from a word bank and a third passage that argues against what most readers already believe, which is where Yes, No, Not Given questions do the most damage. Writing Task 1 is a map comparison.

Listening
40 questions
Reading
40 questions
Writing
2 tasks
Speaking
3 parts
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General Training  Exam level

IELTS General Training Practice Test 1

A complete General Training paper, with the Reading section structured the way GT actually is: short everyday notices, then workplace documents, then one longer general-interest text. It is marked against the General Training band table, which is much stricter than Academic, so 30 out of 40 here is a band 6 rather than a band 7. Writing Task 1 is a formal letter, not a chart.

Listening
40 questions
Reading
40 questions
Writing
2 tasks
Speaking
3 parts
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More papers are being written

Every paper here is around nine thousand words of original material, written in house, so they arrive a few at a time rather than forty at once. A second General Training paper is next. In the meantime, the skill pages let you drill one format at a time, which is usually a better use of a week than sitting another full paper.

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What a full paper here gives you

Listening, marked

Four sections and 40 questions, narrated in the browser so there is nothing to download. Marked instantly, with the transcript unlocked afterwards.

Reading, marked and timed

Three passages against a 60-minute clock, exactly as on test day. Every answer is explained with the sentence it came from.

Writing, with a model to beat

Both tasks under real timing and word counts, a band 8 model answer, and examiner notes explaining what earns the marks.

Speaking, with the real timings

All three parts, a cue card with the one-minute preparation clock, and a recorder so you can hear yourself back. Nothing is uploaded.

What these tests are and are not

Worth reading before you draw conclusions from your score.

Where does this material come from?
Every passage, question, transcript and model answer here was written for Studination. We do not reproduce Cambridge IELTS papers or official sample tests, because that material is copyrighted and republishing it would be theft. The trade-off is that our papers are our own approximation of the real thing rather than a retired official paper.
How is the Listening audio produced?
Your browser reads the transcript using its built-in speech synthesis, which means no downloads and no buffering on a slow connection. It also means the voices are flatter than a real recording and you get whatever accents your device offers. This trains comprehension, note-taking and pacing well. For accent work, use the free official recordings from the British Council and IDP alongside it.
How close is the band score to a real result?
Close enough to steer your study, not close enough to predict your result. IELTS equates each live version separately, so the raw score that earns band 7 moves between papers. We use the widely published averages and say so on every result screen.

Practice material and band conversion last reviewed 2026-07-28.

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