IELTS Academic & General Training
Record IELTS Speaking Parts 1–3 and get diagnostic measures on fluency, silent gaps between words, pacing, pronunciation and prosody — so you know what to fix before test day. These are Acedify diagnostics, not official examiner bands. Listening still plays once; Reading and Writing follow Academic or General Training.
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Delivery
118
Words / min
6
Pauses
4.4s total
3%
Fillers
of words
Language
Lexical resource
Grammar
Coherence
Topic
Speech
Pronunciation
Fluency
Prosody
Accuracy
Word accuracy
2 issues · 13 words scored
I would describe the market near my flat, where stalls sell handmade ceramics.
Dials are Acedify's own diagnostic measures, not official IELTS band scores. IELTS reports Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking on the 0–9 band scale.
Academic or General Training
Book the module your institution or visa checklist names. Listening (four parts, 40 questions, plays once) and Speaking (three parts, 11–14 minutes) are identical for Academic and General Training. Reading texts and Writing Task 1 are not — practising the wrong module measures the wrong sitting.
Overall band is the average of the four skills, rounded to the nearest half band. A high Writing band cannot rescue a Listening band below a stated minimum.
| Academic | General Training | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical use | University / many professional pathways | Many immigration & work pathways |
| Listening | Same · plays once | Same · plays once |
| Speaking | Same · Parts 1–3 | Same · Parts 1–3 |
| Reading | 3 longer academic / journalistic passages | 3 sections: everyday → workplace → longer general |
| Writing Task 1 | Describe a visual (graph, chart, map, process) | Letter (formal / semi-formal / informal) |
| Writing Task 2 | Discursive essay | Discursive essay (often everyday framing) |
| Band scale | 0–9 whole or half | 0–9 whole or half |
Confirm Academic vs GT on your offer letter or visa checklist before you drill Reading and Writing. Format details belong in the claims register with a source.
The loop
Step 1 is free. Steps 2 to 4 need a subscription.
Practice · True / False / Not Given
No clockThe city opened a new cycle lane along the river last spring. Commuters who switched from driving reported shorter journeys, although the council has not published a count of how many people made the switch.
The council knows how many commuters stopped driving.
Decided by the highlighted sentence
The text says the count was not published. It does not say the council lacks the number. Unpublished is not the same as unknown, so the statement is Not Given.
Every explanation points at the line that decides the answer.
Click a step to see it.
What you get back
When you finish a timed module, you get evidence for that sitting — because it happened and it is measurable. Your ability estimate is different: it is an inference from the work you have done, reported as a range that narrows as you sit more. Anyone showing a single predicted overall band from one untimed afternoon is guessing and hiding it.
Until we have enough of your answers to say something useful, we show no estimate at all rather than a range so wide it is meaningless.
Where your ability sits now
6.5–7.5
A range, because an estimate without one is a guess dressed up as a fact.
Flip between the two. A graded sitting gives you evidence; an ability estimate gives you a range.
Sections
IELTS assesses Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. Listening and Speaking are the same for Academic and General Training; Reading and Writing differ. Choose your module before starting practice.
40 questions · ~30 minutes
Plays once. Four parts, ten questions each. Part 3 matching is where multi-listen prep usually collapses.
| Task type | Items |
|---|---|
| Part 1 · everyday conversation | 10 |
| Part 2 · monologue | 10 |
| Part 3 · discussion | 10 |
| Part 4 · lecture | 10 |
40 questions · 60 minutes
Academic is three longer passages. General Training is three sections that move from everyday texts to workplace texts to a longer general passage. Item types include True/False/Not Given, Yes/No/Not Given and matching headings. Practising the other module measures the wrong sitting.
| Task type | Items |
|---|---|
| Academic · longer passages | 3 |
| General Training · everyday to longer | 3 |
2 tasks · 60 minutes
Academic Task 1 describes a visual. General Training Task 1 is a letter. Task 2 is a discursive essay and is commonly treated as carrying about twice the weight of Task 1 when the two form one Writing band — that ratio is not stated on the public band descriptors. Scored on task response or achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy.
| Task type | Items | Scored by |
|---|---|---|
| Task 1 · visual or letter | 1 | AI |
| Task 2 · discursive essay | 1 | AI |
3 parts · 11–14 minutes
Part 1 is a short interview. Part 2 is a long turn: one minute to prepare, then one to two minutes of talk. Part 3 is a discussion. On test day an examiner leads the test, face to face or by video call. Acedify practice returns diagnostic measures, not an official band.
| Task type | Items | Scored by |
|---|---|---|
| Part 1 · interview | 1 | AI |
| Part 2 · long turn | 1–2 min | AI |
| Part 3 · discussion | 1 | AI |
About 2 hours 45 minutes end to end. Speaking may be the same day or within a short window. Listening plays once. The overall band is the average of the four skills, rounded to the nearest half band.
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