Writing and Speaking against the public band descriptors. Reading and Listening with the traps explained, not just a key.
Send in a Task 1 or Task 2. You get Task Achievement, Coherence, Lexical Resource, and Grammar as separate marks — the same four the examiner uses.
Record Part 1 answers, a Part 2 cue card, or Part 3 follow-ups. You get the audio back, a transcript, and notes on fluency and pronunciation.
Academic and General Training passages. When you miss one, you see the paraphrase they used and why the distractor looked tempting.
Multi-accent recordings. Practise spotting when a speaker corrects themselves, number traps, and the signposts that tell you an answer is coming.
If Coherence is always a half-band lower, that's what you drill next. Not another Task 2 you already write at 7.
Section timers, unedited audio, and the word limits. Sit it once so test day isn't the first time the clock feels real.
You don't need a twelve-week plan. You need a starting band and a list of leaks.
About 15 minutes across Writing, Speaking, Reading, and Listening. That's your starting band, not a guess from a YouTube quiz.
Step 1Task 2 cohesion, Part 2 fluency, True/False/Not Given — whatever the diagnostic flagged. Leave the rest alone for now.
Step 2Check the criterion scores, try the correction, send it in again. If the band didn't move, you know it wasn't luck.
Step 3Same IELTS skills. Different kind of mark afterwards.
| Focus | Unstructured | PrepMyself |
|---|---|---|
| 01The four criteria | A percentage, or one overall band | The four official criteria, scored separately |
| 02Speaking | You listen back, or you pay a tutor | Transcript, fluency, and hesitation notes after you record |
| 03Writing | Spellcheck, with no IELTS descriptors in sight | Grammar, vocabulary, and structure, line by line |
| 04Reading and Listening traps | An answer key and no reason | The paraphrase in the text, and why the trap looked right |
| 05Repeat errors | Notes in a margin, if you remember to keep them | A running list of the errors you repeat |
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