Find your level in five short tests. Free, no sign-up, and you can take them in any order. The whole set takes about 100 minutes, and you can spread it over several days.
Treat each test like the real thing: find a quiet place, keep to the time, and do not look up answers. The more honestly you take it, the more useful your result will be.
The five tests
Reading
25 min | Scored on the page. Three passages that get harder, with 5 questions each. Answers and explanations appear at the end.
Listening
10 min | Scored on the page. Three recordings that get harder. Use headphones in a quiet place. Each recording plays once.
Vocabulary and Grammar
10 min | Scored on the page. Complete a model answer to a process diagram by choosing the best adjectives, adverbs, passive forms and verbs.
Writing Task 2
40 min | Scored by AI, prompt provided. Write an essay on an unusual question, then copy a ready-made prompt into any AI chat tool to get a detailed report.
Speaking
15 min | Scored by AI, prompt provided. Answer Parts 1, 2 and 3 out loud and record yourself on your phone. Turn the recording into text, then paste it into the scoring prompt.
How it works
1. Pick a test. Start anywhere. Reading and Listening are quick and a good first step.
2. Get your result. Reading, Listening, and Vocabulary and Grammar are scored on the page. For Writing and Speaking, the page gives you a prompt to paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek or any AI chat tool.
3. Learn from it. Every scored test ends with your answers, the correct answers and a short explanation for each question.
Please note: results are estimates, not official band scores. AI scoring can be a little generous, so for Writing and Speaking it helps to run the same prompt in two different AI tools.
Questions
Do I need to sign up?
No. There is no account, email or payment for these tests.
Is my writing stored?
No. The Writing page does not send what you type anywhere. When you copy the prompt into an AI tool, that tool handles your text under its own privacy rules.
What do I need for Speaking?
A phone to record yourself, and a way to turn the recording into text, such as your phone’s dictation or the voice feature in an AI chat tool. Speech-to-text hides pronunciation problems, so the AI can only estimate that part.
About the author
Hi, I run this site myself. I have spent more than 15 years teaching and managing IELTS programmes for universities and schools in Hong Kong and mainland China, and I now teach as an adjunct senior lecturer at a liberal arts college in Hong Kong.
I came to IELTS from the subjects its texts and essay questions are built on: economics, sociology, philosophy, medical laboratory science and e-commerce. That is why I teach IELTS through reasoning and practical technique, not formulas, and why I build every test and lesson here for independent learners, people who study on their own and expect a lot from themselves.
Nobody will chase you here, so your results depend on how honestly you practise.
Independent learner resource. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to IELTS Partners (British Council, IDP, Cambridge).