IELTS Academic Practice Test with an Examiner That Talks Back

IELTS Speaking

IELTS Speaking practice with an examiner who has no script

• 11–14 minutes
• Parts 1, 2 and 3
• Band 0–9

On the exam. Part 1 is questions about you and familiar topics. Part 2 is a cue card, with one minute to prepare and up to two minutes to speak, followed by questions. Part 3 is a discussion of the ideas behind the Part 2 topic, and it is where higher bands are won or lost. The examiner listens the whole time, and the next question depends on what you just said.

Most online speaking practice is a recorded question and a countdown. You answer, it records, and nothing you say changes what comes next. You can do that for months and still freeze when a real examiner asks “Why do you think that is?”

On LinguaMock.ai, the examiner talks back. The cue card is set, as it is on the day. The follow-ups are not: no script, no stock questions, no two conversations alike. It is the closest you can get to sitting opposite an IELTS examiner without paying for a test.

• It follows what you actually said Describe a teacher who inspired you and it asks whether teaching is valued enough today. Claim that technology isolates people and it asks whether you would give up your phone. Every follow-up comes from your own answer.
• Part 2 the way the exam runs it A cue card, one minute to prepare, up to two minutes to speak. Then come follow-up questions about the talk you just gave.
• Part 3 is where 6.5 becomes 7 The examiner picks up your reasoning, asks you to justify the claim you just made, and keeps pushing into the abstract. This is what Fluency and Coherence really measure, and it is the one part of IELTS nobody can memorise. You can rehearse a cue card. You cannot rehearse a conversation that does not exist yet.
• It feels like the real thing You hear each question spoken aloud and see it on screen, in three timed parts. When test day comes, it will not be your first time.
• Whenever you are ready On your phone or your laptop, at midnight or in a lunch break. No booking, no app, no tutor's diary to fit around.

IELTS Academic Writing

IELTS Writing checker built for the jump from 6.5 to 7

• 60 minutes
• Task 1 + Task 2
• 4 criteria, each banded

On the exam. Task 1 gives you a chart, table, map or process diagram and twenty suggested minutes to describe it in at least 150 words. You report and compare; you do not speculate. Task 2 is an essay of at least 250 words, and it carries twice the weight of Task 1.

Seven is the number that matters. A large share of postgraduate programmes require it, and many medical and nursing regulators set their bar there or higher. It is also where a great many candidates stall: three sections at 7 and Writing stuck at 6.5.

Grammar checkers cannot close that half band, because spelling is rarely what holds an essay at 6.5. More often it is a position that never fully develops, paragraphs that do not extend their main idea, or cohesion that leans on “Moreover” and “Furthermore”. LinguaMock.ai's Writing feedback is built around exactly that line.

• All four criteria, scored separately Task Achievement (Task Response in Task 2), Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy, each with its own band and the reasoning shown. If cohesion is holding you at 6.5 and vocabulary is not, you need to know that before you study tomorrow.
• Feedback built to get you to 7 You see which criterion is costing you and what it has to look like at Band 7. A page of corrected commas will not get you there. Knowing that your paragraphs never develop their main idea will.
• Task 1 marked against the chart you were given Your answer is checked against the same graph, table, map or diagram you described. That shows up a misread figure, a missed main trend, or a missing overview, and a 7 requires one. A checker that only reads your text cannot see any of these.
• Task 2 marked for the question actually asked Most marks lost in Task 2 are lost on Task Response. Candidates argue both sides when the prompt asked for their opinion, or answer a slightly easier question than the one set. No amount of good grammar rescues an essay that answers the wrong question.
• Results in about a minute Write, see your bands, fix the weak criterion, and write again the same evening. That loop is how a band moves.

IELTS Listening

IELTS Listening practice tests, full length and heard once

• 30 minutes
• 4 parts
• 40 questions

On the exam. Four recordings of rising difficulty: an everyday conversation, a monologue, a discussion between several speakers in an academic setting, and an academic lecture. Each is heard once. Listening is identical on Academic and General Training.

• Every question type you will meet on the day Forms, notes and tables to complete, maps and plans to label, flow charts, multiple choice and matching, in full 40-question tests rather than isolated drills.
• Heard once, on the real clock Each recording plays once, as it does on the day. If you practise with a pause button, you are practising a different test.
• 50 tests, never the same recording twice Every test has its own conversations, talks and lectures, so a high score means you can listen, not that you remember the script.
• Every answer explained, banded instantly Each question explains why the answer is right and why the tempting alternative is wrong, and your band appears the moment you finish.

IELTS Academic Reading

IELTS Academic Reading practice: 2,000 questions on the real clock

• 60 minutes
• 3 passages
• 40 questions

On the exam. Three long passages from journals, books and magazines, forty questions, sixty minutes, and no extra transfer time. That is ninety seconds a question, including the reading. Most candidates can answer the questions. Far fewer can answer them fast enough.

• 2,000 questions across 50 full tests The question types the Academic paper uses, from True/False/Not Given to matching headings and diagram labelling, in full-length tests rather than isolated drills.
• True/False/Not Given, explained properly TFNG costs more marks than any other type, usually because candidates treat “Not Given” as a judgement call. Every answer explains what the passage states, what it does not, and why the tempting option is wrong.
• The real timer, all three passages Sixty minutes on the clock. Untimed practice tells you how well you read. Timed practice tells you your band.
• The Academic band table Your score converts on the published Academic table. Thirty correct is a 7.0 here and a 6.0 on General Training, and a score on the wrong table hands you a band you will not get on the day.