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IELTS guides

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

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

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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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