Best IELTS Coaching

The version almost every university-bound student needs.

Who should take it

Anyone applying for undergraduate or postgraduate study at an English-medium university. Admission teams only accept Academic scores — General Training won't be considered for a degree application.

What's different

Reading uses three longer, more analytical academic texts. Writing Task 1 asks you to describe a graph, table, chart, or diagram in a formal register.

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Reading passages come from everyday material — notices, advertisements, handbooks — rather than academic texts. Writing Task 1 is a letter responding to a situation, which can be personal, formal, or semi-formal in tone. Used for immigration to Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

40 questions, one listen, no replays — accuracy under time pressure is the whole game.

Four recorded sections of rising difficulty: a casual social conversation, a monologue in an everyday setting, a conversation among up to four people in an educational context, and an academic monologue such as a lecture. Each recording plays only once, so active note-taking matters more than memorising vocabulary lists.

60 minutes, 40 questions, three passages — most students run out of time, not vocabulary.

Question types test gist, main ideas, specific detail, skimming, logical argument, and the writer's opinion or purpose. With no extra time to transfer answers, practising under strict timing matters as much as reading comprehension itself.

Two tasks, 60 minutes — and Task 2 is worth roughly double Task 1.

Task 1

Academic: describe a graph, table, chart, or diagram in at least 150 words. General Training: write a letter of at least 150 words responding to a given situation.

Task 2

An essay of at least 250 words responding to a point of view, argument, or problem — formal in Academic, and allowed to be more personal in General Training.

11–14 minutes, recorded, and designed so rehearsed answers don't hold up.

Part 1 (4–5 min)

General questions about yourself — home, work, studies, and interests.

Part 2 (3–4 min)

A topic card, one minute to prepare, then up to two minutes of speaking, followed by one or two follow-up questions from the examiner.

Part 3 (4–5 min)

A deeper discussion of Part 2's topic, covering more abstract ideas.

Your overall band is an average of four section scores, not a single combined test.

Listening and Reading raw scores (out of 40) are converted onto the 9-band scale; Writing and Speaking are scored directly by certified examiners against published criteria. All four scores are then averaged and rounded to the nearest whole or half band for your overall result.

What actually happens between booking and holding your results.

Book directly through your nearest centre via ielts.org, choosing a test date that fits your application timeline. Results are typically available around 13 days after your test date. You receive one official Test Report Form — if you need extra copies sent to specific institutions, your test centre can send those directly on request.