What is Road to IELTS?

Road to IELTS is the British Council’s comprehensive, 100% online IELTS preparation program. It includes over 300 interactive activities, 13 videos giving advice and tutorials, 40 practice tests — everything your candidates need to get a great IELTS score! Road to IELTS is ideal both for use in the classroom and for independent study. Includes computer-delivered IELTS simulator. Find out more by reading this brochure, and by watching this video.

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Free IELTS Reading practice test

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News and updates

Using Road to IELTS in tablet for IELTS preparation
  1. Read a case study. How does Rishworth School use Road to IELTS?
  2. Number of Road to IELTS sessions last year: 5 million.
  3. Clarity’s (free) IELTS support materials. Read a summary.
  4. Institutions that use Road to IELTS: Sciences Po (Paris), UCLA, South Australia Public Libraries, British Council (worldwide).
  5. A four-month survey was run to hear from users in 2021. Over 92% said they would recommend it to their friends. Over 90% said Road to IELTS made them more confident on test day. In 2022, the British Council Vietnam has run another survey: over 90% find the mock papers, videos and tutorials useful for their IELTS preparation.

How to pass IELTS first time

Lucas Gade discusses a successful strategy for reducing the number of expensive, time-consuming IELTS retakes.

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Using Road to IELTS in the classroom

In this post, Adam Forrester introduces three ideas for using Road to IELTS in class. Try these activities with your students to prepare them for the IELTS Speaking test.

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'I'm a busy teacher and we don't run IELTS classes...'

You have students who need to take IELTS, but your institution doesn’t run IELTS classes. As a busy teacher you don’t have much spare time to support these learners. What to do?

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Support materials

5 tips for IELTS

Social media

Ideas to promote Road to IELTS on all social media platforms, text and images included.

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e-Newsletter

Idea to promote Road to IELTS in email communication, text and images included.

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Poster

The poster highlights learning strategies, with a space for your own access instructions.

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Program description

The text here highlights the features of Road to IELTS, so your students will understand how Road to IELTS can help them.

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Teacher support

Download an activity sheet to find out how to use the program and to get an overview of the content.

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Technical

technical specifications

Technical specifications

Road to IELTS runs on desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile. To run this program, you need an up-to-date version of one of these browsers:

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Apple Safari
  • Microsoft Edge

latest upgrades

Latest upgrades

  1. 2023 Aug: Minor content updates in the Writing section
  2. 2023 Apr: Content updates
  3. 2022 Oct: Minor content updates in the Listening section
  4. 2021 Nov: Minor content and answer fixes
  5. 2021 Aug: Technical upgrade
  6. 2021 May: Released the last three tests with "IELTS on computer" for Academic and General Training

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technical support pledge

Technical support pledge

"My aim is to ensure you have smooth, trouble-free use of any programs you purchase from Clarity. I therefore guarantee to find a fast and effective solution to any technical problems related to Clarity programs, or provide a full refund."

Martin Ng,
IT Manager