Listening
Practise predicting, following signposts, noticing paraphrase, and keeping accuracy under one-play conditions.
- Question-type strategy
- Connected speech
- Timed section practice
IELTS Academic & General Training
Prepare for your band—not just your next practice test.
Build the English beneath the score, understand how each test works, and spend your limited study time where it can make the greatest difference.
Four-skill preparation
Know the test. Strengthen the language. Rehearse the performance.
Test tricks cannot replace language ability, and language knowledge alone does not guarantee efficient test performance. Strong preparation develops both.
Reading
Build efficient passage navigation, evidence-based answers, and control across the Academic or General Training format.
- Skimming with purpose
- Paraphrase recognition
- Time and answer management
Writing
Understand the task, build a relevant response, organise ideas, and improve grammar and vocabulary through targeted review.
- Task 1 and Task 2
- Band-criteria awareness
- Planning and editing routines
Speaking
Develop natural answers, flexible ideas, intelligible pronunciation, and the ability to sustain discussion across all three parts.
- Part 1–3 practice
- Fluency and coherence
- Recording-led self-review
Your study route
A plan should change as your evidence changes.
Begin with your target, deadline, and current four-skill profile. Review your route weekly so the next block reflects what your work is actually showing.
Baseline
Find the current pattern
Use recent results, timed samples, and recorded performance to locate high-impact gaps.
Build
Strengthen the limiting skills
Work on the language, comprehension, organisation, or control that is holding performance back.
Perform
Apply under test conditions
Increase timing and test realism gradually, then review against the same criteria.
Free IELTS tools
Get useful clarity before choosing a course.
Keep practising between lessons
Take your IELTS plan into a real practice session.
Use PrepRoadRunner for AI-supported speaking, mock tasks, vocabulary review, and progress you can bring back into your next study decision.
Open the web practice platform or continue on iPhone. Your academy plan stays the starting point.
Inside the practice room
- 01AI speaking rehearsalRecord full answers and use review to make the next attempt more specific.
- 02IELTS mock tasksPractise by skill, section, or full format when you are ready for more realism.
- 03Vocabulary and progressKeep useful language active and return to evidence instead of guessing at progress.
Make the target practical
Turn your IELTS deadline into this week’s work.
Build a free starting plan based on your current estimate, target band, available hours, and test date.