IELTS Academic · iPhone & web
Sit a full IELTS Academic test in your pocket
Four complete mock tests with the four papers: Listening with recordings that play once, Reading with 40 questions, Writing with a chart task, and Speaking with the cue card.
Listening · Reading · Writing · Speaking
Independent exam preparation. Lingotivo is not affiliated with or endorsed by IELTS. Every paper on this site is written by Lingotivo.
- 4full IELTS Academic mock tests
- 40 + 40Listening and Reading questions in every test
- 5,863IELTS words, A1 to C2, by topic
Who it’s for
Made for your IELTS preparation
You are booked for IELTS Academic
For university entry or a professional register: practise the paper you will actually sit, with the time limits it has.
You want to know where you stand
Take one full test, see your Listening and Reading score out of 40, and compare your Writing and Speaking with a model answer.
Your vocabulary is the bottleneck
The 5,863-word IELTS list is sorted by topic with meanings in 14 interface languages and a recording for every word.
What’s inside
Everything you practise, in one app
4 parts · 40 questions
Listening
One recording per part, played once as on the day, by British, Irish and Australian voices. Form and note completion you type, multiple choice and matching.
3 passages · 40 questions
Reading
Academic passages with lettered paragraphs. True, False, Not given, matching headings, matching information, sentence completion and multiple choice.
Task 1 + Task 2
Writing
Task 1 describes a chart or table drawn for the test, Task 2 is the essay. Every task comes with a model answer and a checklist to mark your own work.
3 parts
Speaking
The interview, the cue card with a minute to prepare and two minutes to talk, and the follow-up discussion, with model answers to compare.
5,863 words
IELTS word list
Swipe cards with the word, its pronunciation, an example sentence and a recording. Words come back when they are due.
56 lessons
English grammar underneath
When a mistake is grammar, the English course has 56 lessons from A1 to B1 with a dialogue in every one.
Try a real question
True, False or Not given?
Read the paragraph, decide, then check. Every Reading question in the app is marked as you go.
From Mock Test 1 · Reading · Passage 1, as the app sets it.
Do the following statements agree with the information in the passage? Write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information, FALSE if the statement contradicts the information, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.
The quiet return of the tram — Urban Futures Quarterly · Paragraph A
Visitors arriving at Halbury’s central station in the spring of 2009 would have found little to suggest that the city had ever owned a tram. The rails had been torn up in 1957, when the council decided that buses were cheaper, more flexible and, above all, modern. Only a faded brass plaque outside the old depot recalled the network that had once carried sixty thousand passengers a day. Yet barely a decade later, Halbury’s Blue Line has become one of the busiest public-transport routes in the region, and delegations from other cities now travel there to find out how it was done.
Halbury’s trams were removed in 1957 partly because buses were seen as modern.
Check the answerHide the answer
Answer: True
Exam format
The IELTS Academic test, as the app sets it
Each Lingotivo mock test follows the published structure of the paper: the same four skills, the same number of parts and passages, the same question types.
| Module | Time | Parts | In the app |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listening | 30 min | 4 parts, 10 questions each | Recording plays once. Marked out of 40. |
| Reading | 60 min | 3 passages, 40 questions | Marked out of 40. |
| Writing | 60 min | Task 1 (chart) and Task 2 (essay) | Model answer and a checklist to mark yourself. |
| Speaking | 14 min | 3 parts | Interview, cue card, discussion, with model answers. |
Listening and Reading are marked for you
Your answers are scored as you go, out of 40 for each paper, with the correct answer and the reason shown for every question.
Writing and Speaking you mark with a checklist
These papers are assessed by people in the real test. In Lingotivo you compare your work with a model answer and tick a checklist.
Bands
IELTS reports each skill on a band scale from 0 to 9. Lingotivo shows raw scores and does not convert them to bands.
In the app
See it on iPhone
The screens of the App Store page, as the app shows them.
On the web
Your IELTS course in the browser
Open ielts.lingotivo.com on a laptop and carry on where the app left off. Free to start, no download.
- The same account as the app: what you practise on the phone is here, and the other way round.
- Every module of the mock exams in the browser, with the clock and the answer sheet.
- One Pro opens everything, on the web and in the app.
How it works
Start on iPhone or here
Install Lingotivo from the App Store, or start free on this site, and choose IELTS. The app needs no sign-in to start; one account keeps the app and the web in step.
Practise in the real format
Open a paper, watch the clock, answer on the sheet. Every module is marked as you go and every wrong answer is explained.
Review what you missed
Every wrong answer is explained, and your results wait for you on both: pick up on the laptop where you stopped on the phone.
Are these real IELTS papers?
No. Every paper is written by Lingotivo to follow the published format: the number of parts, passages, tasks and questions and the question types. They are practice material, not past papers.
Academic or General Training?
Academic. The Reading passages are academic texts and Writing Task 1 describes a chart or table. There is no General Training practice yet.
How many tests are there?
Four full mock tests, each with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Do I get a band score?
Listening and Reading are scored out of 40. Lingotivo does not convert that to a band, and Writing and Speaking are self-assessed against a model answer and a checklist.
Can I also learn English there?
Yes. The English course has 56 grammar lessons from A1 to B1 and 2,789 everyday words read aloud, in the same account.
Can I practise on the web too?
Yes, right here on ielts.lingotivo.com. Log in with the account you use in the app, or start free in the browser: your course, your progress and Pro are the same in both.
Is it free?
You can start free: the first part of every word list and exam is open. Lingotivo Pro opens every lesson, word list and mock exam, in the app and on the web.
Ready for IELTS?
Download Lingotivo or start right here, open the first paper and see where you stand. Free to start, on iPhone and on the web.
See the word cards on the App Store