IELTS Academic Practice — Free Online Exercises

IELTS Academic is scored in bands from 0 to 9 across four papers — Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking — and most universities ask for 6.5 or 7.0 overall. Everything below comes from real Cambridge IELTS past papers, is free, and is marked instantly, with Writing marked by an AI examiner on the official band descriptors.

IELTS Reading practice · 24 exercises

The IELTS Academic Reading paper gives you three long passages and 40 questions in 60 minutes, with no extra time to transfer answers. The question types rotate — True/False/Not Given, matching headings, summary completion, multiple choice — and each rewards a different reading technique. Every passage here is from a real Cambridge IELTS past paper, marked instantly, with the answer explained and located in the text.

• IELTS True / False / Not Given — Academic Reading · 17 exercises
• IELTS Matching Headings — Academic Reading · 6 exercises
• IELTS Summary Completion — Academic Reading · 20 exercises

IELTS Listening practice · 32 exercises

IELTS Listening is four sections of 10 questions, played once only: a everyday conversation, a monologue, a discussion between students, and an academic lecture. Form completion, map labelling and matching all appear, and spelling counts. Practise with authentic past-paper audio, instant marking and the full transcript afterwards.

• IELTS Map & Plan Labelling — Listening · 4 exercises
• IELTS Form & Note Completion — Listening · 21 exercises

IELTS Writing practice · 16 exercises

IELTS Academic Writing has two tasks in 60 minutes: describe a chart, graph, map or process in 150 words, then argue an essay in 250. Task 2 is worth twice as much. Write either here and an AI examiner marks it in about a minute on the four official band descriptors — Task Achievement, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy — with an estimated band and corrections quoted from your own script.

• IELTS Writing Task 1 — Academic Writing Task 1 · 8 exercises
• IELTS Writing Task 2 — Academic Writing Task 2 · 8 exercises