IELTS Academic preparation, built for students in Nepal
Four skills, nine bands, and public descriptors that say exactly what separates a 6.5 from an 8.0. Practise against them.
Built for learners preparing from Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan and across Nepal
What is IELTS Academic?
IELTS Academic is the most widely accepted English test for universities and visas worldwide, and the one most Nepali students meet first. It is marked in bands from 0 to 9, in half-band steps, across Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Its great advantage for anyone studying alone is that the marking is public. IELTS publishes the band descriptors examiners work from — four criteria for Writing, four for Speaking — so the difference between the band you have and the band you want is written down.
Most candidates never read them. Prepyo marks your work against those same criteria and shows which one is holding your band down, because "write better essays" is not a study plan and "your coherence is a band below your vocabulary" is.
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IELTS Academic at a glance
The test format as published by the IELTS partners.
- Delivery
- On paper or on a computer, at a test centre
- Listening
- 30 minutes, four recorded parts
- Reading
- 60 minutes, three long passages
- Writing
- 60 minutes — Task 1 and Task 2
- Speaking
- 11–14 minutes with an examiner
- Score range
- Bands 0–9, in half bands
See where you gain and lose marks in IELTS
Multi-skill radar analysis that pinpoints exactly where you gain and lose marks across all 4 communicative skills.
Most students fail PTE or IELTS because they practice what they already know. Prepyo pinpoints the exact tasks dragging your score down so you improve faster.
Accelerated Diagnostic Sessions
Map your baseline across all 4 skills in 20 minutes without sitting a 3-hour exam.
Multi-Skill Radar Breakdown
Instant visual metrics for Speaking fluency, Writing coherence, Reading, and Listening.
Criteria-Based AI Scoring
Scored against the criteria Pearson and IELTS publish, so you have a close estimate of your band before test day.
- Speaking 8.5
- Writing 7.5
- Reading 8.0
- Listening 8.0
Master every single task type
Each task type is practised on its own, in the format the real test uses, with feedback the moment you answer.
Writing Task 1
Describe a chart, map or process in at least 150 words. Selecting and grouping the data is what is being marked.
Writing Task 2
A 250-word essay carrying twice the marks of Task 1. Position, development and structure decide the band.
Speaking Parts 1–3
Introduction, a two-minute long turn from a cue card, then abstract discussion. Fluency is scored across all three.
True / False / Not Given
The reading question type that costs the most marks, almost always for confusing False with Not Given.
Matching Headings
Tests whether you can find a paragraph’s main idea rather than a matching word.
Sentence & summary completion
Word limits are strict and spelling counts, in both Reading and Listening.
Multiple choice
Appears in both Reading and Listening, and rewards eliminating distractors over hunting for keywords.
Map and diagram labelling
A Listening task where losing your place costs several marks at once.
Built for serious test-takers
Everything you need to find your weak spots and spend your time where the marks are.
Feedback against the band descriptors
Your essay comes back marked on all four Writing criteria, with the sentences responsible for each one highlighted, so you can see which criterion is capping your band.
Speaking practice you can hear back
Answer Part 2 cue cards under the real timing, then review your own recording with pace, pauses and per-word pronunciation marked.
Full-length mock tests
All four skills in one sitting, under exam timing, with a band estimate per skill and every question you lost marks on kept for review.
Sentence-level rewrites
See a stronger version of your own sentence alongside what you wrote, with the grammar or cohesion reason for the change spelled out.
How IELTS Academic is scored
Writing is marked on four equally weighted criteria: Task Achievement or Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. Speaking uses four of its own: Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and Pronunciation.
Because the four are averaged, one weak criterion caps the whole skill. A candidate with strong vocabulary and disorganised paragraphs can land on the same band as one with plain vocabulary and a clear structure — and only one of those two problems takes a weekend to fix.
Task 2 carries twice the weight of Task 1 in the Writing band, which is the single most useful thing to know before deciding where to spend your practice time.
Scores are estimates produced from the published marking criteria, not official results. Read how the scoring works.
IELTS Academic Frequently Asked Questions
PTE Academic preparation
Comparing the two? Read how PTE Academic is structured and scored.