About BandLift
A free, focused way to prepare for IELTS Academic when time is short and the target is high.
Why it exists
Most IELTS preparation assumes you have months. Many candidates don't. They need a university, job or visa score soon, they're already close, and they need to stop losing easy marks. BandLift is built for that situation: one week, a clear plan, and the techniques that change scores fastest.
Our approach
- Strategy first. Most lost marks at band 7 come from format, timing, word limits and question-type traps, not from a lack of English.
- Structure for the productive skills. Clear frames for Writing and Speaking, taught as sentence functions rather than memorised text, which examiners don't credit.
- Practice under time. Every tool has a timer, because timing is where good candidates lose points.
- Honest numbers. Score conversions are labelled as approximate. Our three full practice tests are original, and we recommend also taking at least one official mock test.
Free and private
BandLift has no accounts, no ads, no tracking and no cookies. Your progress stays in your browser. Read the privacy policy.
Credits
Listening audio is generated with Piper, an open-source text-to-speech system, using these openly licensed voices: Cori (public domain), John and Kristin (public domain), Alba (Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, CC BY 4.0), Northern English Male (Google, CC BY-SA 4.0), and voices from the VCTK corpus (University of Edinburgh, CC BY 4.0). Fonts: Atkinson Hyperlegible, Bricolage Grotesque and JetBrains Mono, used under the SIL Open Font License.
Independence
BandLift is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, IELTS, the British Council, IDP or Cambridge University Press & Assessment. IELTS is a registered trademark of its owners. The practice material on this site is original and is not official test content.