The test you practice should look like the test you sit
IELTS rotates its questions from a pool, and what circulated last month is the best available picture of what you will face. Yet most practice material is undated — mocks written years ago, with no connection to the current pool. IELTS Actual Tests exists to close that gap: a free library of listening and reading tests rebuilt from what real test-takers reported, dated to the exam month they appeared.
Everything here is free, with no account and no paywall: full tests, recreated audio, transcripts, answer keys, and a plain-English explanation for every question.
What a rebuilt test is
After each real sitting, test-takers around the world share what appeared: the scenarios, topics, question types, and answers they remember. These recalls are collected daily, deduplicated, and verified against each other.
When a recall is complete enough, we rebuild it into a full test: the listening audio is re-recorded, maps and charts are redrawn, and every answer is cross-checked. The result is faithful to the recall — and clearly labelled as a reconstruction, not official material.
How the library grows
New recalls surface on the recalls wall within a day of collection, so you can see what is circulating right now. Complete rebuilds join the listening and reading libraries, newest month first.
If you have just sat the IELTS, sharing what you remember takes five minutes and helps thousands of candidates after you — and a valid recall earns a free writing correction on our companion site.
Where we draw the line
We never publish official IELTS papers, Cambridge books, or any copyrighted preparation material. Every test here is our own reconstruction from test-taker memories, and every page says so. Recalls come from test-taker submissions and publicly shared reports; if you believe anything here infringes your rights, email us and we will review and remove it promptly.
We also make no score promises. A band number on this site is a practice calibration, not a prediction — anyone promising otherwise is selling something.
Part of a prep family
IELTS Actual Tests is the free practice companion to IELTSWritingPrep.com and IELTSSpeakingPrep.com, where the output skills — the papers examiners grade hardest — get personalized, band-calibrated attention.
The library stays free because those products exist. No ads walls, no locked answers, no upgrade nags in the middle of a test.
IELTS Actual Tests is an independent study resource. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to IELTS, the British Council, IDP Education, or Cambridge Assessment English.