GNG IELTS
How to use the platform
Five minutes to read. Read it once before your first mock and nothing on test day will surprise you.
1Signing in
There is no password. Continue with Google, or enter your email and a sign-in link arrives — one tap is all it takes. The link works once, within 30 minutes. After that you stay signed in on this phone for 90 days.
The link works only in the browser that asked for it. Forwarding the email signs nobody else in. To sit on another device, request a new link from that device — or continue with Google, which works anywhere.
With Gmail or Outlook, the sign-in page has a button that opens your inbox in a small window. Tap the link there and the page moves to your dashboard by itself; no switching to the email tab.
After you pay, the first email comes on its own, with the sign-in steps. If it does not arrive, check spam, or request a new link from the sign-in page.
2The dashboard
At the top: a button to continue whatever is open. Then, if you set your IELTS date, a countdown and a task for each day of the last week. Then a meter of how many sittings you have used of each paper, with a line of your band across sittings. Below, the list of 50 tests.
Each row has four small circles: L R W S. Empty means not sat, an orange ring means in progress, filled means done. Tap a row to open that test's buttons.
3Full mock vs one paper
Full mock: all four papers, timed, exam conditions. Results come after every paper is submitted, as on test day. It uses one sitting of each paper.
One paper: open any test and pick a paper. Result and corrections the moment you submit. It uses one sitting of that paper only. You can sit the same paper again; each time costs one sitting.
A sitting is spent only when you start the paper. Opening a test and leaving costs nothing.
4Listening
The audio plays once, as in the real test. Put on headphones, check the volume, then press play. Answer as you listen.
If the page reloads, nothing is lost. Press Resume and the audio continues from a few seconds before where it stopped. A part that has finished will not play again. In practice you can replay a part once it has ended.
5Reading
Three passages, 40 questions, 60 minutes. The clock is at the top; the 1–40 palette at the bottom shows what is answered and what is flagged. Answers save themselves.
6Writing
Task 1 (at least 150 words) and Task 2 (at least 250 words), 60 minutes. The word count is on screen. Your writing saves every few seconds; a reload keeps it.
7Speaking
Allow microphone access when the browser asks. You hear one question at a time in an examiner's voice and each answer is recorded on its own. Part 2 is the cue card: one minute to prepare, then up to two minutes of talking.
Sit somewhere quiet. Make each answer two or three sentences, never just yes or no.
8Results
Listening and Reading are marked against the key: you see every question you got wrong. Writing and Speaking get an estimated band range, with your own sentences shown back with the mistakes and corrections.
Under every wrong answer is why the key is the key. After a Listening practice you can read the whole tapescript with the answer lines marked. In Speaking you can play back each of your own answers. If you sat the same paper before, last time's band sits beside this one.
The dashboard's Tips and tricks card points at the e-book chapters that apply to you now; once a week the same advice goes by email, with a switch under the card to stop it.
This is not an official IELTS result. Your real test result may differ.
9If something goes wrong
Reloading the page is safe: answers, writing and the audio position are all saved. If the internet drops, the page retries on its own; you do not need to press anything.
If you are still stuck, message us on WhatsApp and say which test and which paper.