Pendorai

IELTS Academic, End To End.

Four skills, forty questions each in Listening and Reading, two written tasks and a three-part spoken interview. Academic Reading and Writing use university-level source material; Listening and Speaking are the same test General Training candidates sit.

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Pendorai IELTS Academic practice test screen

Screenshot slot

One IELTS Academic exam screen — ideally the split Reading view with the passage, the question panel and the timer.

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Total time
≈2h 45m

Plus the speaking interview.

Listening
40 questions

4 parts, ≈30–34 minutes on computer.

Reading
40 questions

3 passages, 60 minutes, 2,150–2,750 words.

Writing
2 tasks

60 minutes, both compulsory.

Test flow

How The Session Runs

The three computer components run back to back, with speaking booked separately. The order of those three is set by the test centre, so Pendorai lets you run either sequence.

01

Listening

≈30–34 min · 40 questions

Four parts, each played once, with a short review period at the end. No paper-style answer-transfer time.

02

Reading

60 min · 40 questions

Three passages that get progressively harder, with highlighting and note taking on the text.

03

Writing

60 min · 2 tasks

You can move between Task 1 and Task 2 freely. Word count is live and answers save themselves.

04

Speaking

11–14 min · 3 parts

A recorded one-to-one interview, booked before or after the computer session.

On computer

Same Test. New Delivery.

IELTS is phasing out conventional paper delivery from mid-2026. It is a delivery change, not a redesign — the skills assessed, the construct, the task types and the way scores are read all stay exactly as they are.

What the screen gives you

  • A countdown timer and a question-number navigator.
  • Review and flag, so you can come back to anything.
  • Highlighting and note taking directly on the text.
  • Display and font controls, plus Help.

How each skill is laid out

  • Listening: one play, volume control, a short final review.
  • Reading: passage on the left, questions on the right, each scrolling on its own.
  • Writing: prompt on the left, your response on the right, with a live word count.
  • Answers save automatically as you go.

What Pendorai mirrors

  • The same navigation, flagging and timing behaviour.
  • Audio that plays once, exactly as it does on the day.
  • Typed answers marked the way the real answer key marks them.
  • Speaking run as a live conversation, then scored against the four criteria.
Listening

Four parts, forty questions, played once

The four parts move from everyday conversation to an academic lecture, and the questions always follow the order in which the information is spoken. You hear each recording once.

  • ≈30–34 minutes
  • 40 questions
  • Identical in both tests

Two speakers · everyday

Part 1

A conversation in an everyday social context.

  • Booking, enquiring, arranging — the kind of exchange you would really have.
  • Usually paired with form, note or table completion.

One speaker · everyday

Part 2

A monologue in an everyday social context.

  • A tour, a briefing, a description of a place or a facility.
  • Where plan, map and diagram labelling most often appears.

Usually two speakers · educational

Part 3

A discussion in an educational or training context.

  • Students and a tutor working through a project or an assignment.
  • Opinion, agreement and correction are what the questions turn on.

One speaker · academic

Part 4

A monologue on an academic subject.

  • A lecture extract, delivered straight through with no pauses.
  • Usually note, sentence or summary completion.

Recordings use a range of accents including British, Australian, New Zealand and North American.

Reading

Three passages, getting harder as you go

Texts come from books, journals, magazines, newspapers and online sources, written for an educated non-specialist reader. At least one of the three carries a detailed logical argument.

  • 60 minutes
  • 40 questions
  • 2,150–2,750 words

Accessible

Passage 1

Factual and descriptive.

  • The most straightforward text of the three.
  • Often paired with True / False / Not Given and completion tasks.

Moderately complex

Passage 2

Explanatory or discursive.

  • Ideas developed across paragraphs rather than stated outright.
  • Matching headings and matching information sit naturally here.

Most demanding

Passage 3

Often argumentative.

  • The text that carries the detailed logical argument.
  • Yes / No / Not Given, matching features and multiple choice on the writer's position.

Diagrams, graphs and illustrations can appear, and genuinely technical vocabulary may be glossed.

Writing

Describe a visual, then argue a case

Everything must be written as connected prose in full sentences. Notes and bullet points are not accepted in either task.

  • 60 minutes
  • 2 tasks
  • Both compulsory

≈20 minutes · at least 150 words

Task 1 — Describe a visual

Report what the data or the diagram actually shows.

  • Line graphs, bar charts, pie charts and tables.
  • Two visuals combined in a single prompt.
  • A process diagram, or a map or plan showing change over time.
  • An object or a device you have to describe in stages.

≈40 minutes · at least 250 words · weighted ×2

Task 2 — Essay

Respond to a point of view, an argument or a problem.

  • Opinion and agree–disagree prompts.
  • Discuss both views and give your own.
  • Advantages and disadvantages, and whether one outweighs the other.
  • Positive or negative development, cause and solution, and multi-part questions.
Speaking

Three parts, face to face

A recorded one-to-one interview that opens with familiar questions, moves through a two-minute solo turn, and ends in an abstract discussion of the same theme.

  • 11–14 minutes
  • 3 parts
  • Identical in both tests

4–5 minutes

Part 1 — Introduction and interview

Familiar questions about you.

  • Home, family, work, studies and interests.
  • Short answers, but developed — not one word.

3–4 minutes

Part 2 — Individual long turn

A cue card, one minute to prepare, up to two minutes to talk.

  • The card gives a topic, points to include and a final aspect to explain.
  • One or two brief follow-up questions can come afterwards.

4–5 minutes

Part 3 — Two-way discussion

The Part 2 theme, opened out.

  • Explain, analyse, compare, evaluate and speculate.
  • Causes, effects and where things are heading next.

Assessed on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation.

Question types

Every Question Type You Can Meet

Fourteen surface types in Reading and eleven in Listening. Pendorai generates all of them, so nothing on the day is the first time you have seen the format.

Reading — 14 types
  • Multiple choice
  • True / False / Not Given
  • Yes / No / Not Given
  • Matching information
  • Matching headings
  • Matching features
  • Matching sentence endings
  • Sentence completion
  • Summary completion
  • Note completion
  • Table completion
  • Flow-chart completion
  • Diagram label completion
  • Short-answer questions
Listening — 11 types
  • Multiple choice, single answer
  • Multiple choice, multiple answers
  • Matching
  • Plan / map / diagram labelling
  • Form completion
  • Note completion
  • Table completion
  • Flow-chart completion
  • Summary completion
  • Sentence completion
  • Short-answer questions
Writing Task 2 — prompt families
  • Opinion / agree–disagree
  • Discuss both views + opinion
  • Advantages and disadvantages
  • Do advantages outweigh disadvantages
  • Positive or negative development
  • Cause and solution
  • Multi-part questions
Scoring

How It Adds Up

Each skill gets its own band, and the four combine into an overall band. Half bands are used throughout.

Band scale
0–9

Whole and half bands, per skill and overall.

Listening
40 questions

One mark per question, converted to a band.

Reading
40 questions

One mark per question, converted to a band.

Writing
Task 2 ×2

Task 2 is weighted twice as heavily as Task 1.

Listening and Speaking are identical in Academic and General Training. Only Reading and Writing differ between the two.

In Pendorai

What IELTS Academic Practice Looks Like Here

Sit a full paper, or drill one task type until it stops costing you marks. Either way it is marked, explained, and folded back into what you study next.

  • Marked the moment you finish.

    Listening and Reading are scored against the answer key instantly, question by question, with the passage line or the audio moment that held the answer.

  • Writing judged on the four criteria.

    Task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy — each one commented on separately, not rolled into a single number.

  • Speaking with an AI examiner.

    All three parts, out loud, in one sitting. The cue card, the one-minute preparation, the long turn, and the Part 3 discussion that follows your own answers.

  • A different paper every time.

    Papers are generated fresh, so you practise the task type rather than memorising a fixed set of questions.

Preparing for more than one test?

The same study plan feeds every exam you sit. Pick the next one.

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