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Band 9 is an independent IELTS preparation service. We give you a free diagnostic test that estimates where you stand, and we offer paid help to close the gap.

We are not affiliated with IELTS, Cambridge, the British Council or IDP Education. We cannot enter you for the exam, change a result, or give you an official score. Anyone telling you otherwise is not us.

• It gives you an estimated band range, not a band. A range is the honest output of thirty questions; a single figure would be a guess wearing a decimal point.
• It is marked by a machine, against the answer key. No examiner reads it.
• It does not cover Writing or Speaking, because those cannot be judged automatically and we will not pretend otherwise.
• It is not a prediction. Nothing here guarantees the score you will get on the day. What you do between now and then matters more than what this test says today.

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The writing, design, code and marking on this site are ours. Please do not copy them wholesale or resell them.

Some practice material reproduces published exam content. That content belongs to its publishers, not to us, and it appears here so you can practise on it. We claim no ownership of it and we grant you no rights over it.

Your answers and your results are yours. We use them to mark your test and show you your report, and for nothing else — see the privacy policy.

Do not try to break the site, scrape it, hammer the sign-in, or use it to send anyone anything they did not ask for. We may close an account that does, and we will tell the person why.

The free test is free, and it comes as it is. We do not promise the site will always be available, that it will never contain a mistake, or that a result will match your eventual exam score. If you find a mistake, tell us and we will fix it.

Nothing here limits our responsibility for anything the law does not let us limit.

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.

Questions about any of it: hello@band9.uk.