Road to IELTS FAQs

Once you have been successfully registered for your IELTS test, you will be able to find your access codes to log in to the materials on the confirmation letter. Once you have entered the Road to IELTS Online portal you will be asked to create your own personal log in information and you must enter the date of your IELTS test.

Go to the log on screen here and you can request your password through ‘forgot your password?'

You can use it from the moment of your successful registration until one week after your exam date

Yes. You can login from anywhere that you can access the internet.

No. The British Council provides Road to IELTS Online for free exclusively for candidates who are registered for the exam at British Council.

No. The British Council provides Road to IELTS Online for free exclusively for candidates who are registered for the exam at British Council.

Road to IELTS is provided exclusively for registered IELTS candidates with the British Council. At the moment you cannot buy the materials.

We will be changing the material every few months, so depending on the registration date you may get completely new material to study.

There are three topic-based units using themes which are commonly used in the IELTS exam. Each unit will help you prepare for the listening, writing, reading and speaking sections of the exam. There is also a vocabulary unit for each topic.

Yes. Each time you do an exercise your score is recorded. It is often a good idea to do an exercise more than once to improve your score.

The materials under each theme are organised as in the exam and the intention is that you can take a completely flexible approach to how you use the materials. You can practice a particular skill (reading, writing, etc), a particular test type (multiple choice, gap fill, etc), or simply work systematically through the materials unit by unit.

The Academic module focuses on IELTS band scores 5.0 - 6.0. The General Training module is aimed a little lower - around 4.5- 5.5.

‘Road to IELTS’ contains 120 hours of content and is divided into 4 30-hour blocks. Therefore, candidates who take IELTS more than once will potentially have access to different practice material. For the moment you cannot buy more modules.

It is best to click the close button (‘X’) in the top right corner when you have finished. If you forget, you will still be able to start again but your “time spent” might not be recorded accurately.

Just wait for the internet to come back and you will be able to keep going. If you click Marking while the Internet is down you will lose your score for this exercise.

No. The help file is only written in English and all instructions are only in English. This is good practice for your exam!

No. Road to IELTS is a self-study exam preparation material. It does not test you and the progress scores you get for the exercises do not relate to the IELTS score you will get in the exam.

No. Your scores in Road to IELTS are only saved for your own information. You can click the Progress button to see what exercises you have done and your score for those exercises.

After each writing task you will see a sample answer. Don’t look at this until you have tried the writing task yourself. Then you can use it to see a model answer. There is no automatic marking of the answer that you write.

You must have the Flash Player installed in your browser. The latest version is best, but if you have version 8 that is sufficient. Download the Flash Player from www.adobe.com. You also need to have cookies and JavaScript enabled.

You probably don’t have the Flash Player installed in your browser. Download the Flash Player from www.adobe.com. You also need to have cookies and JavaScript enabled.

You probably don’t have the latest Flash Player installed in your browser. You need at least version 8, but the latest one is best. Download the Flash Player from www.adobe.com. You should also check that your Internet connection is working well.

Open the exercise again. The second time the audio should play much more quickly.

You probably don’t have the latest Flash Player installed in your browser. You need at least version 8, but the latest one is best. Download the Flash Player from www.adobe.com. You should also check that your Internet connection is working well.