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Lessons without feedback.
Bookshelves of strategy guides and 12-hour video courses — and not a single human reads what you write or hears what you say. Self-study compounds your mistakes instead of fixing them.
Our story
Built by a teacher who got tired of telling students
the same thing every IELTS book leaves out.
IELTS Ace exists because every other piece of the prep market forgets the part that actually moves a band: real feedback, on your work, before you forget what you wrote.
The paradox
Everything an IELTS student needs already exists.
None of it talks to each other.
Look at what's on the market. Books. Apps. Mock tests. YouTube channels. Classroom courses. Every piece is solid in isolation — and useless on its own. Here's what students actually run into.
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Feedback, but at $80 an essay.
The teachers who do mark papers properly are out of reach for the students who need them most. One essay a week is a luxury. Writers need ten.
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Tests, but no teaching.
Endless mock test platforms. They tell you the score, never the why. You learn that you got 14/40. You don't learn what to do differently next Monday.
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Teaching, but not IELTS teaching.
The internet says 'IELTS class' but serves general English with a tips-and-tricks topcoat. Watch a video, nod, move on. No production, no correction, no learning. Passive content can't lift a band.
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Books that bore you out of the test.
700-page Cambridge volumes. No clear target. No sense of how close you are. No coach saying 'this week, focus on cohesion.' Most students close the book before page 80.
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Classrooms that forget your name.
Group classes are expensive — and the teacher cannot possibly remember twenty essays, twenty speaking sessions, twenty grammar quirks. You leave with the same weakness you walked in with.
What was missing
A coach. Not a course.
Tests don't lift bands. Reviews lift bands. Specific, criterion-by-criterion reviews — task response is a 6, here's why, here's the fix, do it again tomorrow. That kind of review used to require a person, an hour, and a paycheck. Most students never got it.
What was missing wasn't more content. It was a coach who reads what you write, listens to how you speak, remembers your weak edges, and tells you exactly what to practice next — calibrated to the same Cambridge descriptors a real examiner uses. Cheap enough that a student in Hanoi or Lagos or Tashkent can use it daily, not once a month.
Why this exists
A teacher who was a student first.
This platform was built by an English teacher with 10+ years marking student writing, running speaking practice, and watching the same broken stack break the same students: books that won't grade you, tests that won't teach you, classes most learners can't afford, tutors who can't keep up.
After a decade of running the feedback loop by hand — read the essay, mark it against the descriptors, write the rewrite, hand it back — the answer became obvious: the teaching is solved, the testing is solved. What's not solved is the loop in between. The bit where someone looks at your essay and says this is your weak edge, fix that, write again.
IELTS Ace is that loop. Every essay graded. Every speaking turn timed and transcribed. Every weak edge tracked across weeks. No judgment from a room full of strangers. Just a coach who actually remembers your last attempt.
What changed
One platform. Every broken loop, closed.
Lessons + feedback
Every reading, listening, writing, and speaking attempt comes with a per-criterion review. No exception.
Real grading, $0.20 a paper
An evaluator tuned on Cambridge band descriptors marks every essay in seconds. Cheaper than a print-out.
Tests that teach
Every mistake is annotated. Every wrong answer turns into a vocabulary card or a strategy drill, automatically.
Production over passive
You write. You speak. You produce — and the system replies. No watch-and-nod. Output is the only path to a band.
A coach with memory
Liz, our AI tutor, holds your weak edges across sessions: cohesion last week, lexical this week, with concrete drills for both.
Yours, on your schedule
No classroom embarrassment. No commute. Open the laptop at 11pm, write a Task 2, get it back before midnight.
Same exam. Same descriptors. A fundamentally better loop.
Free tier, no credit card. Submit one essay, see what the loop feels like.
Built by an English teacher with 10+ years marking student writing. Every feature mentored personally. A real person reads every email at [email protected].