Practice
Everywhere you can be marked. Real papers from your own books, our own papers, per-type drills, and the full mock. Every result lands in the review queue tagged by question type, which is what makes the syllabus tables know what you are bad at.
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Mark what you wrote on paper
You write faster by hand and the real test is not the problem — getting it marked is. Photograph the page. It comes back with a band per criterion, the descriptor phrase that decided each one, two quotes out of your own script as evidence, and the three fixes ranked by what they are worth. An answer sheet from one of your books is marked against the published key by code, not by a model's opinion of a near miss.
Real papers from your books
Sit a book paper
28 marked papers across five books — the Official Cambridge Guide's eight
Listening and eight Reading papers, Collins Reading, Collins Listening, and ten per-type Reading
drills. The paper opens in your PDF beside the answer sheet; the site does the clock, the
marking against the published key, the band, and the error log.
Full mock
Listening straight into Reading with no break, then Writing on its own clock.
One combined band. This is the only thing on the site that tests pacing and stamina together
— Tests 7 and 8 are reserved for it.
90 min before you stand up, then 60 for Writing
Work the book's teaching units
Book units — the Official Guide
The half of the book that is not a practice test: 26 Academic teaching units,
each with what it teaches in our words, its exercises deep-linked into the reader, and an
answer form that marks the determinate ones exactly as a real paper does. Where the book only
suggests an answer, it says so rather than pretending to score you.
Our own papers and drills
Reading exam
Four full 40-question papers written for this site. Use them for extra
question-type volume; use the Cambridge papers for a score you want to trust.
Listening exam
Four papers with speech-synthesis audio — the only papers here that have
any audio at all, since none of your uploaded sets contains a full listening test.
Writing exam
Task 1 and Task 2 on one 60-minute clock, marked against all four criteria with
the band-7/8/9 descriptors quoted back at you.
Speaking exam
All three parts, recorded in the browser, with filler counts and a 4/3/2 mode
for Part 2.
Drill runner · shadowing · dictogloss
Short, repeatable sets. Shadowing is the longest-lead habit in the whole plan
— start it in week 1 even though it pays off in week 3.
Guided journeys
One technique per level: a walk-through, then a test, then a badge. 29 levels
across the four sections.
What is still thin
Original drill items for 30 of the 33 units
Every unit has somewhere to practise — three have their own
written item set, fourteen route into the exam runners by question type, and sixteen go to a
marker because Writing and Speaking are not marked against a key. What is missing is original
per-unit item sets for the rest, so a weak unit can be drilled on its own rather than inside a
whole paper.