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About IELTS Computer

IELTS Computer is practice software for the computer-delivered IELTS: the same kind of screen you sit in front of on test day, in your browser and in an app. It is built by one person, and this page says who, what the site actually covers, and what it deliberately does not claim.

Who builds it

Why a practice version of the screen

On the computer-delivered test, most of what goes wrong on the day is not about English. The Listening recording plays once while you are typing, and there is no spell-check to save a misheard word. In Reading the passage sits beside the questions behind a divider you drag, and highlighting is a selection, not a pencil. In Writing you type into a box with a live word count, and the sixty minutes cover both tasks. None of that is difficult — it is just unfamiliar, and unfamiliar costs marks. Rehearsing it is the whole purpose of this site.

What is on the site

• Listening, Reading and Writing practice tests, each in the computer-delivered interface, with the test's topics listed before you start.
• A Spelling trainer for the words that cost marks in Listening.
• Two free tools that need no account: an overall band score calculator and an IELTS-to-CLB converter. Every number on them names its official source and the date it was checked.
• A free demo in the browser with no account at all, and one full Reading test free once you have signed up.
• An iPhone, iPad and Mac app with the same tests plus Vocabulary and Grammar. One account and one subscription cover both, and results sync.

What it is not

• Not the official IELTS software. It is as close to the computer-delivered screen as we could make it, and it is not the real thing. The test is run by IDP, British Council and Cambridge, and this site is not affiliated with any of them.
• Not a place to book a test. Book through ielts.org or your local test centre.
• Not a band score promise. No practice site can know what you will get on the day, and anything you read here that sounds like a guarantee is a mistake we would like to hear about.
• Not Speaking. Speaking is a face-to-face interview with an examiner, so it is not part of the computer screen and it is not covered here.

How the facts here are kept straight

Anything on this site that states a rule about the exam — the rounding on a band score, the CLB equivalency table, the time you get at the end of Listening — links to the organisation that publishes it and shows the date it was last checked. Where something is this site's own design choice rather than an exam rule, it says so. If you find a number that is out of date, the address below is the fastest way to get it fixed.