Asian IELTS has a lot of tools, and it isn't always obvious where to start. This guide explains what each part of the site is for and suggests a simple weekly routine that uses them together.
Before anything else, open Settings and choose whether you are taking Academic or General Training. Your Reading and Writing practice follows that choice. Listening and Speaking are the same for both.
Single-part practice: short, focused sessions
The Practice page has a tab for each skill: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. You can pick one Listening part, one Reading passage or one Writing task instead of a whole test. You can also filter by question type, so if matching headings keep catching you out, you can practise just those.
Listening and Reading practice is scored straight away. It doesn't use up your monthly mock tests, so use it as much as you like. Practising single Speaking questions is free too.
Single-part practice is best for:
- working on one question type you keep getting wrong
- a short session when you don't have time for a full test
- going back to a skill after a mock test showed a weak spot
Mock tests: the real format, under time
A mock test is a whole paper in one skill, timed and laid out like computer-delivered IELTS. Take a Listening, Reading, Writing or Speaking mock when you want an honest measure of where you stand.
A Full Mock is all four skills in one sitting, like the real exam day. The Listening recording plays by itself with no pause or replay, and after the last part you get two minutes to check your answers, just as in the real test.
What each plan includes:
- Free account: one Reading, one Listening and one Writing mock test every month. You also get one Full Mock, once, after you verify your email address.
- Pro: more mock tests every month, Speaking mock tests, and unlimited Full Mocks.
Pro is sold as a 1, 3 or 6-month pass, paid once. It doesn't renew, so there is nothing to cancel. See the plans and prices for the details.
Mock tests are designed for a laptop or desktop computer, like the real computer-delivered test.
The review screen: where most of the learning happens
Finishing a test is only half the job. The review is where your score actually goes up.
After a Listening or Reading test, the review looks like the exam screen. Each answer is marked right or wrong, you can jump to any question from 1 to 40, and you can see what the answer key accepts next to what you wrote.
Wrong answers are also labelled with the likely reason:
- Spelling: you heard or found the right word and misspelled it.
- Word form: for example, a missing plural.
- Over the word limit: the right idea, but too many words.
- Answers shifted: your answer belongs to a nearby question.
- Fell for a distractor: you picked an option the text mentioned but ruled out.
These labels matter because they point to different fixes. Spelling and plural slips are quick to fix with care and a checking routine. Distractors mean you need to slow down and read the question more closely.
For Writing and Speaking you get a band for each criterion and the reasons behind it. These bands come from AI marking against the public band descriptors. We haven't yet compared them with a human examiner's bands, so treat them as a practice estimate, not a prediction of your real score.
The Mistake Notebook: never make the same mistake twice
Mistakes from your Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking work are logged in the Mistake Notebook automatically. You don't have to copy anything down.
The notebook spaces out your reviews, so a mistake comes back after a short gap and then less and less often as you get it right. Press Start Review for the entries that are due today.
The Diagnostics tab shows which kinds of mistakes you make most often. A quick look tells you whether you are losing marks to careless slips or to questions you didn't understand.
The spelling drill: fix the marks you lose to spelling
In Listening, a misspelled answer scores nothing. The spelling drill (in Vocabulary) trains exactly this: you hear a word, type it, and see letter by letter where you went wrong. Then a word card shows its meaning, an example sentence and related words.
A few details:
- You choose how many words to practise each day, from 3 to 30.
- Words are matched to your target band. Raise your target in Settings to unlock harder ones.
- Words you misspelled in your own tests join the drill, up to half of each day's list.
- Any word you miss goes into your review deck, so you will see it again.
Ten minutes a day here is one of the cheapest ways to protect your Listening score.
The Study Plan: what to do and when
The Study Plan turns all of this into a list of tasks for each week that you can tick off as you go.
- Free: a 7-day plan built around your weaker skills and your exam date. You can make a fresh one each week.
- Pro: a full plan for every week up to your exam date, with an AI-written strategy.
A simple weekly routine
If you're not sure where to start, try this:
- Once a week, take a mock test in the skill you most need to improve, under timed conditions.
- Straight after, go through the review and read every wrong-answer label.
- Most days, do one or two single-part practice sessions on the question types that cost you marks.
- Every day, spend ten minutes on Mistake Notebook reviews and the spelling drill.
- Every week or two, check your Study Plan and adjust it as your results change.
When you're getting close to your exam, take a Full Mock to practise the stamina of the whole day. Then use the band calculator to see how your skill bands add up to your overall band.
Still have questions? The FAQ answers the common ones.
Asian IELTS is independent and is not affiliated with IELTS, the British Council, IDP or Cambridge. Bands on this site are practice estimates, not official results.