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IELTS resources in English

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IELTS guide.

Choose a skill, understand your result, or check which test you need. Each guide has a different job.

Start with Academic or General Training if you have not chosen your test. For a short Academic preparation baseline, use the IELTS diagnostic and its result guide. The diagnostic gives practice estimates; it is not a full test or an official score.

Choose and understand your test

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Academic or General Training?

Compare IELTS Academic and General Training across Reading, Writing, scoring and test purpose. Use a booking checklist to confirm the accepted test type, section requirements and delivery mode for your application.

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IELTS band scores and rounding

Calculate your overall IELTS band with worked rounding examples, then compare Reading and Listening raw marks. Check why an overall score can meet a requirement while an individual skill still falls short.

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One Skill Retake, remark or full resit?

Compare a new attempt at one skill, an Enquiry on Results and a full IELTS resit. Worked decision examples help you check eligibility, deadlines, local fees and whether your receiving organisation accepts the result.

Writing

General Training

General Training Task 1 letters

Plan an IELTS General Training letter around its recipient, purpose and every bullet point. An original sample letter, tone comparisons and paragraph notes show how to develop relevant detail within your Task 1 practice.

Academic

Academic Task 1 maps and processes

Use two original IELTS Academic Task 1 diagrams to practise overviews, spatial changes and process sequences. Worked extracts show how to group details, describe a repair loop and keep each claim tied to the visual.

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Task 2 question types and planning

Decode IELTS Task 2 instructions before choosing an essay structure. Original prompts and worked plans show how to discuss both views, make an outweigh judgement and answer every part of a mixed question.

Reading and Listening

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Reading: matching headings and information

Compare IELTS Reading main-idea and detail questions using one short original passage. Try both matching tasks, check the answer explanations and learn when to summarise a paragraph or locate specific evidence.

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Listening map and plan labelling

Practise IELTS map directions with an original visitor-centre plan and written route examples. Learn to track viewpoints, landmarks and changed locations, then use the linked official audio tasks to practise listening.

Skill guides and mock preparation

Study resources and feedback

PrepEx's Writing Task 1 catalogue and full mocks focus on Academic IELTS. General Training letter advice is labelled separately. Listening and Speaking preparation applies to both test types; check each Reading resource's scope.

Put one lesson into practice

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