IELTS
IELTS Academic test structure
Four skills, two sittings, one shared band scale. Knowing this framework before you drill past papers tells you where your marks actually go.
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TOEIC
When TOEIC is the right test
TOEIC measures English at work, not English in academia. That distinction decides whether this is the right test for your goal.
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Communication
Why more words do not make you fluent
Understanding others and producing speech are two different abilities using two kinds of memory. A large vocabulary only guarantees the first.
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SAT
What the SAT is and who should look
The SAT is a standardised test used in US college applications, covering reading, applied grammar and maths — not English as a foreign language.
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IELTS
TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN
The question type that costs the most marks in Reading tests one thing: telling “the text contradicts this” from “the text is silent”.
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VSTEP
What VSTEP is and who it suits
VSTEP measures English against a six-level domestic framework, testing all four skills in a single sitting.
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Study methods
Learning vocabulary by topic
Grouping words by topic outlasts loose lists, but only when each word is tied to a sentence of your own.
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