The Complete IELTS Academic Guide: four modules with original audio

The Complete IELTS Academic Guide: four modules with original audio

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The IELTS Academic set, with the audio

All four modules: Listening, Academic Reading, Academic Writing and Speaking. Written from the official IELTS partner documents, with original recordings.

The band conversion chart nobody official has published

Search for an IELTS band chart and the same table comes back everywhere, printed with total confidence. Here is that table against what IELTS actually publishes.

The number you have been told What IELTS publishes
16 out of 40 is Band 5 An approximate reference point
23 out of 40 is Band 6 An approximate reference point
30 out of 40 is Band 7 An approximate reference point
One conversion table fits every paper The mark needed varies by test version

IELTS sets the boundary so a band means the same thing whichever version you sat, which is why a slightly easier paper needs a slightly higher raw score. Anyone selling you a guaranteed conversion is selling you a number they invented.

Listening you can actually sit

Most IELTS material sells you a transcript and expects you to imagine the rest. This set includes 31 minutes of original recordings, eight of them, across British, Australian and North American voices. IELTS names a fourth accent, New Zealand, and there is no New Zealand voice here, so the books say so and tell you where to get it.

Play once. That is the rule the real test runs on, and it is the rule these are built for.

What is in the set

Module What you get
Listening Drills with the answer and the reasoning under each question, then a separate 40 question paper to sit cold. Eight recordings.
Academic Reading Three original passages with worked drills, then a separate 40 question paper on the real 60 minute clock.
Academic Writing Both tasks, the four assessment criteria in the assessors' own words, twelve original tasks and models annotated against the criteria.
Speaking All three parts, 72 original prompts, and models annotated criterion by criterion.

Every wrong option is explained

Not just the correct letter. Each wrong choice is the answer a specific named mistake produces, and the explanation names it, so you get a behaviour to stop rather than a mark to regret.

"Chooses the obsolete Tuesday date because the correction arrives after a pause" tells you something. "Incorrect" does not.

Where nothing has been published, the books say so

There is no official raw to band table, no published count of how many questions each task family carries, no official per passage timing in Reading. Each book has a chapter naming exactly what is unpublished, marking our own working rules as ours, and pointing you at your test centre for anything only they can answer.

Who this is for

  • Anyone sitting IELTS Academic for a university application
  • Anyone who has read the official material and wants volume that is worked rather than just answered
  • Anyone whose Listening practice so far has been replaying a recording until they catch everything, which is not the test

General Training candidates: Listening and Speaking are identical, and the Writing chapters on criteria and Task 2 apply unchanged. The Reading book is Academic only.

What lands in your inbox

Six PDFs and eight recordings. The Listening books also come as a self contained page that plays the audio in any browser, offline, with nothing else to download. Instant delivery.
The six Listening task families, each with the mechanism of the mistake and a worked example
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  • The six Listening task families, each with the mechanism of the mistake and a worked example
  • Matching headings taught as function rather than topic, with the procedure that fixes it
  • The rules that take marks off a correct answer: word limits, plurals and spelling
  • Range with control: what the Writing descriptors actually reward, in both directions
  • Part 3 answered properly, with the three moves that produce complex language
  • A Listening drill with the recording, the answer, the evidence and why a distractor attracts
  • The answer key: every wrong option explained by the named mistake that produces it
  • The six Listening task families, each with the mechanism of the mistake and a worked example
  • Matching headings taught as function rather than topic, with the procedure that fixes it
  • The rules that take marks off a correct answer: word limits, plurals and spelling
  • Range with control: what the Writing descriptors actually reward, in both directions
  • Part 3 answered properly, with the three moves that produce complex language
  • A Listening drill with the recording, the answer, the evidence and why a distractor attracts
  • The answer key: every wrong option explained by the named mistake that produces it

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