Academic Reading, graph and chart Writing, and examiner style Speaking. We assess your real level first, then build practice around the skill actually holding your band back.
IELTS Academic is the version almost every university worldwide asks for, both undergraduate and postgraduate. Some professional registration bodies in medicine and law also require this version specifically, since the content is closer to academic study itself.
Identical to General Training. Four sections of increasing difficulty, each played only once.
Drawn from books, journals, and academic style writing, testing sustained academic comprehension.
Task 1 asks you to summarize visual data accurately. Task 2 is the same 250 word essay used in General Training.
Identical to General Training. Three parts, examiner style feedback, no scripts.
We score your diagnostic by individual skill, since a strong overall average can still hide a skill below a university's minimum requirement.
Academic Task 1 rewards a different skill than General Training's letter format. We practice the actual format you will face.
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Describing and summarizing visual information, a graph, chart, table, or diagram, in at least 150 words within 20 minutes.
Academic Reading uses three long passages from books, journals, and academic style writing, while General Training uses shorter, everyday and workplace texts.
No. Listening and Speaking are identical between IELTS Academic and General Training, only Reading and Writing Task 1 differ.
No. We teach students to think in English and respond naturally, since examiners are trained to recognise and penalise memorised, scripted answers.
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