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If you don't already know about our IELTS Toolkit, it's a great online resource to help you improve your grammar, vocabulary and IELTS test skills to get a higher band score

Hundreds of interactive exercises covering over 50 different areas of language to help you speak and write in English with more accuracy and more fluency.

You will also find exam tips and exercises on how to master the IELTS reading and listening tests too!

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IELTS Partners have launched a new IELTS Indicator test, for students who are not able to attend an IELTS test centre due to the Covid-19 related restrictions.

From April 22nd, IELTS candidates will be able to book the timed online test which will assess their English language skills in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking from the comfort of their home.

During this incredibly challenging time, I would just like to take the opportunity to say a massive thank you to all health workers around the world who are working under extreme pressure and putting their own lives at risk on a daily basis in order to save others from this terrible virus.

Over the 12 years that we have been preparing candidates for IELTS, a large proportion of our students have been nurses, midwives, paediatricians, doctors, surgeons, pharmacists and care workers, so as teachers we have learnt a lot about their professions and the conditions that they work under during normal times.

It is by no means an easy sector to work in. It requires a lot of training, a lot of personal sacrifice and a lot of hard work, although as many of our students tell us, it is also an extremely rewarding vocation, knowing that you are making a difference to people's lives and an invaluable contribution to society.

The Coronavirus pandemic is proving to be an extremely challenging situation for so many people around the world as we learn to live and work in ways that most of us have never experienced before.

At iPass, we are doing what we can to help IELTS test candidates by:

• Cancelling all course expiry dates until further notice - to give our students unlimited course access until the date of their IELTS exam
• Offering a 20% discount on ALL courses during the month of April with this coupon code: APRIL20

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Kham from Laos is our student of the month for June. Read More →

In this week's post from our blog series "IELTS Reading made easier", you can practise a type of IELTS question we call 'matching headings'. It's where you are given a article to read which is divided into sections (A-E) and a list of 8 headings which you have to match to the paragraphs.

The article focuses on the positive changes that have occurred around the world in the last few decades, in terms of health and wealth, so we hope you enjoy reading it!

In this week's blogpost from the series "IELTS Reading made easier", we're going to give you some practice with 'sentence completion' questions where you are given a list of gapped sentences which you need to complete using 1-3 words. The missing words are all taken from an interesting article which explores the difference between writing with pen and paper and writing using a keyboard. Is one better than the other?

Marvin from The Philippines is our student of the month for January. Read More →

In this week's blogpost from the series "IELTS Reading made easier", we're going to look at a fascinating article all about the teenage brain and give you some great tips on how to answer multiple choice questions, which can be particular tricky until you know the best way of answering them!

If you are preparing for the IELTS test - academic or general - you will know there are several different types of questions in both the Reading and Listening tests. In this mini series "IELTS Reading made easier", we're going to look at different question types and give you some great tips on how to answer them correctly!

We're going to start with the True/False/Not Given or Yes/No/Not Given questions because those are the ones that our students always have the most difficulty with.