IELTS Academic practice

Find out your band before you pay for the real test.

Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. Same length, same order, same clock as the real test.

Start with a free quick mock: Listening and Reading in about 25 minutes, with an estimated band for each. You need an account, not a card.

2,100+ IELTS mocks purchased

Overall band7.5
Listeningcounted7.5
Readingcounted8.0
Writingestimate7.0
Speakingestimate7.5

Example report. Counted parts come from the answer key. Estimates are rated several times so the number stops moving between runs.

2h 42m
How long one test takes, start to finish
4 parts
Listening, Reading, Writing, then Speaking out loud
0–9
The band scale, in half steps, as universities read it
20 tests
Different questions each time, so you can sit it again
In short

MockLive AI’s IELTS Academic mock is all four sections on the real clock with a band for each; a free 25-minute quick mock of Listening and Reading comes first, and the pass is 20 full mocks for a year.

Inside the product

Here are the screens you will see.

Three screens from the exam: the Listening room, the Speaking room where you talk to the examiner, and the report that lands the moment you finish.

mocklive aiExam room

IELTS Academic · secure practice

Listening · 1 of 4

5:42

Secure practice session · answer keys stay on the server

Section 1

Booking a community hall

Play recording

Read the questions now, then play the recording. It plays once, the way it does in the exam — you answer as you listen.

1. The hall is available on which evening?
ThursdayFridaySaturday
2. The deposit is £…… per booking.
40

One word and/or a number

Next →

LISTENING ROOM · the recording plays once, the clock does not stop

mocklive aiSpeaking room

IELTS Speaking test

Part 2 · Preparation

LightPrep 43s

Describe a decision you made that turned out well

You should say:

  • • what the decision was
  • • how you made it
  • • why it turned out well
I'm ready — start speaking

Oliver is asking

You'll have one minute to prepare, then up to two minutes to speak. You may make notes.

You
Examiner speaking…

SPEAKING ROOM · Part 1 interview, Part 2 cue card, Part 3 discussion

mocklive aiBand report
IELTS Academic · full mock

Your band report

All four sections. Listening and Reading counted against the answer key, Writing and Speaking estimated against the official band descriptors.

Overall band

7.5

Reading is your strongest section. Listening cost you the most marks, and Writing is held at 7.0 by the word count on Task 2.

Band by section

Listeningcounted · 32 of 407.5
Readingcounted · 35 of 408.0
Writingestimated7.0
Speakingestimated7.5

Speaking, criterion by criterion

Fluency and coherence

7.0

Lexical resource

8.0

Grammatical range and accuracy

7.0

Pronunciation
Heard

7.5

Pace
~132 wpm
Fillers
7
FeedbackTranscript

What went well

  • Held the Part 2 long turn for the full two minutes without drying up.
  • Precise word choice when the topic turned abstract in Part 3.

Where to improve

  • Conditional forms slipped twice under pressure in Part 3.
  • Seven fillers in the long turn — pause instead of filling.

BAND REPORT · example figures · pronunciation marked HEARD is rated from your audio

The four parts, and how each one is marked

Two parts have right answers, so we count them. Two are judged, so we say so.

Listening

Forty questions across four recordings. Some ask you to label a map or a plan.

Marking

Counted against the answer key.

You get back

A band 0–9 and every question you missed.

Reading

Three passages, forty questions, including True/False/Not Given and matching headings.

Marking

Counted against the answer key.

You get back

A band 0–9 and the question types you keep losing marks on.

Writing

Task 1 describes a chart, table or process. Task 2 is the essay.

Marking

Judged, on the four official criteria.

You get back

An estimated band, criterion by criterion, with the lines that cost you marks.

Speaking

Parts 1, 2 and 3, spoken. You talk, the examiner answers back and follows up.

Marking

Judged, and pronunciation is rated from your audio rather than a transcript.

You get back

An estimated band, your recording, and the moments to listen to again.

What is actually in the pass

Counted from the question banks, not rounded up for the page. Sit twenty complete papers without meeting the same passage twice.

20
complete sittings
all four sections, no repeated material
1,620
Listening & Reading questions
40 + 40 in every paper, as the real test sets
60
reading passages
about 2,350 words to read in each sitting
82
listening recordings
11 of them include a map or plan to label
13
question formats
including True/False/Not Given and matching headings
100
Writing tasks & Speaking cards
written work marked to the four official criteria

What it costs

One payment. It does not renew, and there is nothing to cancel.

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20 complete tests, good for a year. That is about $3 a test, and the questions are different every time.

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5 Speaking tests
$9once

5 Speaking tests to use in the next 30 days, each with the same full report. For the last few weeks before the real test.

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About Speaking

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Questions people ask

Will my band here match my real band?⌄

Listening and Reading should match closely, because they are counted against an answer key the same way. Writing and Speaking are judged, so read them as a range rather than a promise.

Do I have to do all four parts in one sitting?⌄

That is the point of it, and it takes about 2 hours 42 minutes. If you only want Speaking, there is a Speaking-only test you can take free.

Are the questions the same every time?⌄

No. There are twenty complete tests and none of them reuse a passage, recording or cue card, so sitting a second one measures you rather than your memory.

Is the pass a subscription?⌄

No. You pay once, you get twenty tests, and they are valid for a year. Nothing charges you again and there is nothing to cancel.

Is this for Academic or General Training?⌄

Academic — the version universities ask for. General Training is not covered yet.

What do I need to sit one?⌄

An account, a working microphone and somewhere quiet. Speaking is spoken aloud, so a laptop or phone microphone is enough but a headset is better. Nothing to install.

What happens to my recording?⌄

It is yours. Only you can play it back, you can turn recording off before you start, and it is deleted after 30 days automatically.

Can I send this band to a university?⌄

No. This is practice, not the real test — there is no official band here to submit. You still book IELTS through the British Council or IDP. What this gives you is an honest idea of where you stand before you pay that fee.

Should I be taking IELTS at all?⌄

Check what your university accepts first. IELTS is the only one of the four where you speak to a person. TOEFL, PTE and the Duolingo English Test are cheaper or faster in different ways, and we have practice for all of them, so we have no reason to push you to one.

Read up on a part before you sit it

Free guides. Every question type, with what the marking rewards.

Speaking Part 1 questions →Part 2 cue cards →Part 3 discussion questions →Writing Task 1 and Task 2 →How to reach band 7 →Full Speaking mock test →Band score calculator →Compare IELTS, TOEFL, PTE and Duolingo →