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Exam in 41 days · target band 7.0
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Every answer is checked against the exam's own rules — word limits, spelling, accepted variants. Then the analysis groups your mistakes by question type, so you know what's costing you the band.
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Passage 1 · The Return of the Urban Beekeeper
80 questions
Task 1 · Line graph
4 writing tasks
Part 1 · Introduction and interview
3 parts
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Marking
Exceed the word limit and it's wrong — just like test day.
Q11 · No more than two words
“training course” Correct
“the training course” 3 words
Q19 · One word and/or a number
“80 percent” Correct
“80 per cent” Over limit
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01 · Practise
Timed, autosaved, every question type.
ATwenty years ago, a beehive on a city rooftop would have been regarded as an eccentric hobby at best and a public nuisance at worst. Today, hives sit on top of hotels in London, opera houses in Paris and office towers in New York. In Paris alone, the number of registered urban hives rose from around 300 in 2010 to more than 2,000 a decade later. The movement has been driven partly by concern about the decline of pollinating insects, and partly by a wider enthusiasm for producing food locally.
BCities can, surprisingly, be good places for bees. Urban gardens, parks, street trees and railway embankments often offer a greater variety of flowering plants than the surrounding countryside, where large areas may be planted with a single crop. Because many of these plants flower at different times, city bees can find food from early spring until late autumn. In addition, towns tend to be slightly warmer than rural areas, which allows colonies to remain active for longer each year.
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? Choose TRUE if the statement agrees with the information, FALSE if the statement contradicts the information, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.
1The number of registered hives in Paris increased more than six-fold over ten years.
2Rural areas generally offer bees a wider range of flowering plants than cities do.
3Bee colonies in towns can stay active for a longer part of the year than those in the countryside.
4Honey from cities usually sells for a higher price than honey from farms.
Try it — this is the real question component.
02 · Get marked
Word limits, spellings and variants — checked like test day.
Every question, with where the answer is and why.
Paragraph A
Matching headings · Paragraph A
Your answer: i — How a change in design practice followed a disaster
Correct: iii — A collapse that a moderate wind should not have caused
Paragraph A stresses that a wind of about 64 km/h should easily have been withstood.
Paragraph B
Matching headings · Paragraph B
Your answer: i — How a change in design practice followed a disaster
Correct: vii — How regular patterns in moving air make structures vibrate
Paragraph B explains vortex shedding and how matched frequencies make structures vibrate.
Paragraph E
Matching headings · Paragraph E
Your answer: i — How a change in design practice followed a disaster
Correct: vi — Practical ways of reducing wind-induced movement
Paragraph E lists stiffening, streamlining and dampers.
It is understandable that the theory of learning styles has become popular.
Yes / No / Not Given · Paragraph B
Your answer: NO
Correct: YES
Paragraph B: 'It is not hard to see why the idea is so attractive.'
The number of registered hives in Paris increased more than six-fold over ten years.
True / False / Not Given · Paragraph A
Your answer: TRUE
Paragraph A: from around 300 in 2010 to more than 2,000 a decade later — well over six times as many.
Rural areas generally offer bees a wider range of flowering plants than cities do.
True / False / Not Given · Paragraph B
Your answer: FALSE
Paragraph B says the opposite: city spaces often offer a greater variety than the countryside, where land may be planted with a single crop.
03 · See why
Accuracy by question type, weakest first.
04 · Fix it
Your plan and coach read your actual results.
Your biggest loss is Sentence completion (0/2). I've put it first in your plan below.
ATwenty years ago, a beehive on a city rooftop would have been regarded as an eccentric hobby at best and a public nuisance at worst. Today, hives sit on top of hotels in London, opera houses in Paris and office towers in New York. In Paris alone, the number of registered urban hives rose from around 300 in 2010 to more than 2,000 a decade later. The movement has been driven partly by concern about the decline of pollinating insects, and partly by a wider enthusiasm for producing food locally.
BCities can, surprisingly, be good places for bees. Urban gardens, parks, street trees and railway embankments often offer a greater variety of flowering plants than the surrounding countryside, where large areas may be planted with a single crop. Because many of these plants flower at different times, city bees can find food from early spring until late autumn. In addition, towns tend to be slightly warmer than rural areas, which allows colonies to remain active for longer each year.
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? Choose TRUE if the statement agrees with the information, FALSE if the statement contradicts the information, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.
1The number of registered hives in Paris increased more than six-fold over ten years.
2Rural areas generally offer bees a wider range of flowering plants than cities do.
3Bee colonies in towns can stay active for a longer part of the year than those in the countryside.
4Honey from cities usually sells for a higher price than honey from farms.
Try it — this is the real question component.
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An estimate on the four official criteria for every essay and speaking answer you submit.
Strengths, weaknesses and what would lift each criterion by half a band.
Your own sentences rewritten at a higher band, with a note on what changed and why.
Ask why you're stuck or what to practise today — answers come from your attempts and link straight into practice.
Your weekly plan and next steps are built from your weakest skills and question types.
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Pro · 3 months is billed once every three months instead of monthly, which works out cheaper than three months of Pro. You get exactly the same features, and you can cancel before the next period starts.
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