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IELTS guides

Band descriptors, listening transfer time, computer against paper format, and what actually moves a writing score.

True, False, Not Given: the reading question people lose most marks on

Most marks here go on confusing False with Not Given, and on treating your own knowledge as evidence the passage itself never actually gave you.

25 August 2026Read

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Fluency is a band descriptor you can train, not a personality trait

Fluency and coherence is a quarter of your IELTS speaking band, and it rewards a habit you can train, not a fixed measure of how talkative you are.

24 August 2026Read

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The ten minutes that disappear on computer-delivered IELTS

Paper IELTS gives you ten minutes to transfer listening answers. The computer test gives you two minutes to check. Candidates prepare for the wrong one constantly.

21 August 2026Read

IELTS4 min

What actually moves IELTS writing from a 6 to a 7

It is almost never vocabulary. The band descriptors are public, they are specific, and they describe something quite different from what most candidates practise.

11 August 2026Read

Reading about it is the easy part.

Every guide here describes something you can start doing today. Open the bank and find out where you actually stand.

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