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IELTS Academic Question Bank

IELTS Academic tests the same skills with the same question types every time. The bank lets you pick one of those types and a difficulty, and practice it in a computer-delivered style interface until the format holds no surprises.

Choose a skill and start

Why practice by question type

  • Many lost points come from a few question types, such as matching headings or map labelling. A whole test gives you only a few of each.
  • Listening and Reading are practiced as whole sets of one type, the way they appear in the test.
  • Writing and Speaking are practiced one task at a time, with an AI practice estimate and what a strong answer includes.
  • Choosing the difficulty lets you work at the edge of what you can do.

What is in the bank

Listening

Form, note, table and sentence completion, multiple choice, matching, and map and plan labelling.

Academic Reading

True/False/Not Given, matching headings and information, summary completion and the other Academic Reading types.

Academic Writing

Task 1 (describe visual information) and Task 2 (essay), one task at a time.

Speaking

Parts 1, 2 and 3, answered aloud and recorded.

Choose the sections you need

Each plan gives 4 months of access. Pay once by card; the plan opens on your account.

Listening only

Every Listening question type

$29.99

4 months of access

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Academic Reading only

Every Academic Reading question type

$29.99

4 months of access

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Writing and Speaking

Both tasks of Writing, all three parts of Speaking

$34.99

4 months of access

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Listening and Reading

Both receptive skills

$54.99

4 months of access

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All four skills

Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking

$79.99

4 months of access

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The IELTS Academic question bank, step by step

Choose a skill, read the reasoning, return to the misses. Sample screens with made-up numbers; nothing here opens the bank or stores a choice.

Choose the skill and the level.

Build a set around the one thing that keeps costing you points: a single section, a single skill, a single difficulty. Repeat it until you can name the reason you keep missing it.

Choose a skill and start

Sample set builder · nothing is stored

One skill. One level.
Sample selectionIELTS Academic · IELTS Academic

Medium · skill practice

A drawing of the feature: choices here are not stored, and the bank itself shows how many questions each skill holds.

Every answer comes with its reasoning.

On multiple-choice and numeric questions your pick sits next to the right one, with a written explanation of why it is right, so the trap in a tempting option becomes visible. Full explanations come with a plan; plans are requested through the enquiry form and access is arranged by email.

Compare the plans

Sample screen · illustrative numbers

IELTS Academic · IELTS AcademicQuestion 6 of 10
  • Choice
  • Your pick · incorrect
  • Right answer
  • Choice
Explanation

Placeholder explanation · no real question

Score each set, then return to the misses.

Each finished set is scored, and since a set covers one skill at one difficulty, that score is your accuracy on the skill. Filter the review down to the questions you got wrong and read their explanations before you build the next set.

Take a full IELTS Academic practice test

Sample set score · illustrative numbers

IELTS Academic · Medium
IELTS Academic
This set7/10 correct

Question 2Incorrect

Question 3Correct

Question 6Incorrect

Question 9Correct

Question bank FAQs

Is the AI estimate an IELTS band score?
No. It is a practice estimate to guide your work. Only IELTS gives official band scores.
Can I buy Listening and Reading only?
Yes. Each skill is sold on its own, Listening with Reading, Writing with Speaking, or all four together.

Not sure which section is costing you points?

Take a full-length practice test first. It will show you where to point the bank.

IELTS Academic practice tests