Arrive and register
Bring photo identification. Phones, watches and bags go into storage exactly as they would at an official test centre.
A full-length simulation under exam timing and exam conditions, all four modules, followed by a band-wise report that shows exactly which questions and which descriptors cost you marks.
Working through a Cambridge book at your kitchen table, pausing the audio, checking a word, taking a break between sections, produces a score that has almost no relationship to what you will get on test day.
What makes the real exam difficult is not the questions. It is doing Listening, Reading and Writing back to back for nearly three hours without a break, under a clock, with no ability to pause or go back. Candidates routinely lose a full band between their home practice score and their actual result, and they only discover it after they have paid the test fee.
A proper mock closes that gap. You find out how you actually perform under pressure, where your timing collapses, and which module is quietly costing you your target band, while you still have time to fix it.
Your score in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking, plus the calculated overall band with the official rounding applied.
Which question types you got wrong and whether the cause was comprehension, timing, spelling or transfer error.
Separate marks for Task Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource and Grammatical Range, with line-by-line corrections on your script.
Fluency, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation assessed separately, with your recording so you can hear what the examiner heard.
Take one early and one late. An early mock tells you which course format you need. A mock two to three weeks before your real test tells you whether to sit it or postpone. Both decisions are worth far more than the cost of the mock.
Bring photo identification. Phones, watches and bags go into storage exactly as they would at an official test centre.
Audio played once, no pausing, no repeats. Two minutes at the end to check your answers on computer-delivered, ten minutes to transfer on paper.
Three passages, forty questions, no additional transfer time. This is where timing discipline is tested hardest.
Task 1 and Task 2 back to back with no break, immediately after two hours of Listening and Reading.
Eleven to fourteen minutes, face to face, three parts, recorded. Scheduled the same day or within a few days.
You sit down with an instructor, go through the report, and leave with a written plan of what to fix and in what order.
Listening, Reading and Writing run back to back for roughly two hours and forty-five minutes, exactly as in the real exam. Speaking is a separate eleven to fourteen minute session, usually scheduled the same day or within a few days.
Listening and Reading scores are available immediately after marking. Writing and Speaking take two to three working days because they are assessed by an instructor against the official band descriptors rather than scored automatically.
It is conducted face to face by one of our senior instructors using the official three-part format and timing. Sessions are recorded so you can hear your own hesitations, fillers and pronunciation afterwards, which is usually more persuasive than being told about them.
Listening and Reading are objectively marked and therefore highly reliable. Writing and Speaking are marked against the same four criteria the official examiners use, so the prediction is close, though the real test always carries a margin. Treat your mock band as a strong indicator rather than a guarantee.
Yes. Many candidates take a standalone mock to decide whether they are ready to book the real test. There is no obligation to enrol in anything afterwards.
At minimum, one before you choose a course so you know your starting point, and one shortly before your test date so you know you are ready. Students targeting band 7.5 or above generally benefit from three or four, spaced across their preparation.
Find out your actual band under exam conditions, and make the decision about your test date with real information instead of hope.