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IELTS Preparation

Students preparing for IELTS Academic for university admission, scholarships, or a professional registration

هذه الدورة تجهّزك لاختبار آيلتس الأكاديمي. الاختبار أربعة أقسام: الاستماع والقراءة والكتابة والتحدث، وكلها متساوية في الوزن، والدرجة النهائية هي متوسط الأقسام الأربعة مقرّباً إلى أقرب نصف درجة. وهذا يعني أن أضعف قسم لديك هو الذي يسحب درجتك إلى الأسفل، وأن الساعة التي تقضيها فيه تساوي أكثر من ساعة في أقوى أقسامك. كما أن التقريب نفسه قد يرفعك نصف درجة كاملة، وهو الفرق الذي تشترطه كثير من الجامعات. الدورة مبنية على هذا الحساب. الدروس الخمسة الأولى مجانية، وتبدأ بالشرح بالعربية للمستويات المبتدئة ثم تنتقل تدريجياً إلى الإنجليزية.

IELTS Preparation is an online course for students sitting IELTS Academic. It covers all four sections against the published band descriptors, explains how the overall band is calculated and rounded, and ends with a full mock exam scored band by band.

A full IELTS course built around how the band score is actually calculated. All four sections count equally, the overall band is their average, and the rounding means half a band in one section can decide whether you meet a requirement. Fifteen modules across reading, listening, writing and speaking, ending with a full mock exam scored band by band.

Read module 1 free

2 hours reading + 4.5 hours of mock exams

What you'll be able to do

  • Work out which single section will move your overall band the most, and study that
  • Read the band descriptors the way an examiner does, rather than guessing what they want
  • Answer True/False/Not Given without falling for the trap that catches most candidates
  • Pace 40 reading questions in 60 minutes, including the transfer of answers
  • Write a Task 1 that reports data instead of narrating it
  • Structure a Task 2 essay that answers the question actually asked
  • Handle all three speaking parts, including the two-minute turn, without drying up
  • Sit a full mock exam and get a band-by-band diagnosis with the rounding worked out

Modules in this course

1. How IELTS is scored, and why your weakest section decides your band
Free

Four sections of equal weight, averaged and rounded. The arithmetic tells you exactly where an hour of study is worth the most, and most candidates never do it.

9 min read

2. The sentence, and what separates band 5 from band 6
Free with email

Grammatical Range and Accuracy is one of four criteria in both Writing and Speaking. Two habits carried over from Arabic hold more candidates at band 5 than any vocabulary gap.

9 min read

3. Tenses that IELTS actually tests
Free with email

Task 1 has its own tense, Task 2 has another, and Speaking Part 1 has a third. Choosing wrongly is an accuracy error the examiner hears in the first sentence.

9 min read

4. Lexical Resource: range without pretension
Free with email

A quarter of both productive bands rewards precise, natural word choice. Memorised advanced vocabulary used slightly wrongly scores below plain words used well.

8 min read

5. Reading: the question types and their traps
Free with email

Each question type has a specific trap, and True/False/Not Given accounts for more lost marks than any other single format in the exam.

9 min read

6. Reading: 40 questions in 60 minutes, with no extra time

There is no separate transfer time in Reading. Most candidates who run out of time do so because they read the passages in the wrong order and never recover.

9 min read

7. Listening: the four parts, and what changes between them

The recording plays once. The four parts rise in difficulty in a predictable way, and knowing the shape of each is most of what preparation can give you.

8 min read

8. Listening: spelling, numbers and the answer sheet

The most commonly lost marks in this section are not comprehension failures. They are correct answers written down wrongly.

8 min read

9. Writing Task 1: report the data, do not narrate it

Twenty minutes, 150 words, one third of the writing band. The commonest failure is describing every number instead of selecting the ones that matter.

9 min read

10. Writing Task 2: the four criteria, and what each one rewards

Two thirds of the writing band. The descriptors are public, and reading them changes what you write more than any amount of practice does.

9 min read

11. Writing Task 2: structure, and the gap between band 6 and band 7

A plan that takes five minutes, a paragraph shape that works for every prompt type, and the specific thing band 7 does that band 6 does not.

9 min read

12. Speaking: what each of the three parts is testing

Eleven to fourteen minutes with a real examiner, in three parts that ask for three different things. Treating them the same is why part 3 collapses.

8 min read

13. Speaking: fluency, and why hesitation costs more than error

Fluency and Coherence is a quarter of the speaking band. Candidates who stop to find the perfect word score below those who keep going and make small mistakes.

8 min read

14. Pronunciation: the fourth criterion, and what it does not require

A quarter of the speaking band, and the one candidates most misunderstand. Nobody is asked to sound British, and an accent costs nothing.

8 min read

15. The last two weeks, and the day itself

What actually moves a band in the final fortnight, and the practical details candidates leave until the morning of the test.

8 min read

Mock Exam · Full mock exam, with the rounding worked out

Sit all four sections under real timing, band each one separately, then calculate the average and the rounding to find the single half band that would move your overall score.

260 min to build

Questions before you buy

How long does this course take?
About 2 hours of reading, plus roughly 4.5 hours across the 1 mock exam. Most of that time is the mock exam, at your own pace.
Do I need any experience first?
No formal prerequisites — every course is written to be readable from the first lesson, and that lesson is free to read before you buy, so you can check it's pitched right for you.
How is the certificate issued?
Automatically, the moment you complete every module and mock exam. No review queue to wait on.
What's your refund policy?
A 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked — email support@courseparse.com within 14 days of purchase. Full policy on the Refunds page.
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