Here’s a chance to take the new ISE Digital Test from Trinity College London for free. You’ll need to take the IELTS-Academic as well (or have recently done so).  The fun thing is that you’ll get your IELTS fee refunded by Trinity! I guess this means that a new concordance study is coming soon.

Yesterday morning I packed a thermos of coffee and ambled off to the Doksan Public Library to read the new National Geographic (as I often do). And aha! I spotted this blurb about Luis von Ahn and the Duolingo English Test in the magazine’s feature on “33 Visionary Changemakers.” I’ll check next month for the […]

Pictured below is a pamphlet distributed by IELTS USA a few weeks ago at TESOL.  There seems to be two goals here: Convey that the “current alignment” with the IELTS test  (aka the 2025 IELTS/TOEFL concordance) is obsolete. Convince readers that “TOEFL 2026 is a shorter and more shallow representation of academic English proficiency” and […]

So over the past couple of months I’ve uploaded a ton of practice speaking questions and practice writing questions to this site.  But I want to take a moment to highlight some of the practice questions I’ve been uploading to Prepex, a partner site.   For instance, here’s a listen and repeat item about giving a […]

Now that my schedule is a bit more relaxed, I’ve been working my way through the suite of tests from Burlington VTest. The folks from Burlington were nice enough to provide a bunch of vouchers. I’ve so far worked through some of the tests designed for younger learners (VTest English for Schools: Ages 7-10 and  […]