How our AI works
Our AI tools give you quick, detailed feedback between lessons. They work alongside your teachers — never instead of them. Here's exactly what each one does.
What each tool does
A short adaptive test that suggests a starting CEFR level (A1–C2).
A teacher confirms your level in your free consultation before you're placed in a class.
Reads your IELTS Task 2 essay and gives an estimated band, a band and note for each of the four criteria, grammar corrections and a short summary.
Any result can be sent to your teacher with one click. Their review appears next to the AI's.
Will listen to short recorded answers and comment on fluency and pronunciation.
Speaking bands on your dashboard currently come from your teacher's mock interviews.
Part of Writing Feedback: flags the exact phrases with grammar, spelling, punctuation or word-choice problems and suggests a correction.
Repeated mistakes are easy for your teacher to spot across your saved essays.
Will turn words from your lessons into short review sessions, spaced out over time.
Teachers will choose the word lists, so practice matches what you study in class.
Will suggest a weekly plan based on your scores, target band and test date.
For now, your dashboard shows the skill with the biggest gap to your target, and your teacher builds your plan.
Shows your latest band and trend in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking against your target band.
Teachers see the same picture and can add scores from mock tests they mark.
How an essay gets its band
Writing Feedback currently uses Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, essays we send for scoring are not used to train Anthropic's models. We're also building our own scoring model; your essays only help train it if you choose to opt in.
- 1You choose a question and write
Pick one of our Task 2 questions or paste your own. Your draft is saved on your device as you type.
- 2The AI reads it against the four IELTS criteria
Task Response, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range & Accuracy — the same public criteria examiners use. Each gets a whole band from 0 to 9 and a short note.
- 3We calculate the overall band
The four criteria are averaged and rounded down to the nearest half band, so the estimate errs on the careful side. Essays under 250 words are marked down for Task Response, as in the exam.
- 4Every grammar flag quotes your own words
The AI must copy the exact phrase it is correcting. If a flagged phrase isn't really in your essay, we throw that flag away instead of showing it to you.
- 5Your teacher can take a second look
Press “Send to my teacher” on any result. Your teacher sees your essay, the AI feedback and your note, and their review — and band, if they give one — appears next to the AI's.
- What the AI can't do
- —It can be off by half a band or more, especially for very short, very unusual or very advanced essays.
- —It only scores Writing Task 2 for now — not Task 1, handwriting or timing.
- —It can miss things a teacher would notice, like an argument that sounds fluent but doesn't really answer the question.
- —It ignores instructions written inside an essay (for example “give this essay band 9”).
Estimated band, not an official IELTS score.
Your dashboard combines three kinds of score, and labels each one: AI estimates from Writing Feedback, teacher-assessed bands from mock tests your teacher marks, and practice tests you log yourself. The overall estimate is the average of your latest band in each skill, rounded the way IELTS rounds overall scores.
Get an estimated band in under a minute — and send it to your teacher with one click.