Overview
The Lab has every task type of your exam, run with the exam's own timings — a minute to prepare for an IELTS cue card, 45 seconds for a TOEFL interview answer, one sentence of 5 to 75 words for PTE's Summarize Written Text. Each answer is scored the way that exam scores it, and your score report is built only from your own attempts.
Getting started
- Choose your test (or Spoken English) when you sign up, or in the Lab.
- Pick the score you need — each exam's own scale: an IELTS band, a TOEFL 1–6 band, a PTE score out of 90, a Duolingo score out of 160, a CEFR level for spoken English, or the level you are sitting for German, French or Japanese.
- Add your test month if you have one. You can change both at any time from the Lab.
Preparing for more than one test? Add another and switch between them from the tabs on your score report.
Your score report
The report is drawn the way your exam reports scores: IELTS and TOEFL as four section scores and an overall, PTE and Duolingo as skill bars on their scales, spoken English as a CEFR level. Your target is marked on it. A skill you haven't practised yet stays empty, with the shortest task that would measure it.
IELTS overall bands follow IELTS's rounding rule (an average ending in .25 rounds up to the next half band, .75 to the next whole band); TOEFL's overall is the average of the four sections rounded to the nearest half band.
What you can practise
- IELTS — the full Speaking test (Parts 1–3) and Part 2 on its own; Writing Task 1 (a chart for Academic, a letter for General Training) and Task 2; Listening parts; Reading passages; a pronunciation check.
- TOEFL iBT (January 2026 format) — Listen and Repeat, Take an Interview, Build a Sentence, Write an Email, Academic Discussion, Complete the Words, Read in Daily Life, academic passages, and the listening tasks.
- PTE Academic — Read Aloud, Repeat Sentence, Describe Image, Retell Lecture, Answer Short Question, Respond to a Situation and Summarize Group Discussion (the two tasks added in August 2025), Summarize Written Text, Write Essay, Fill in the Blanks, Reorder Paragraphs, Write from Dictation and Highlight Incorrect Words.
- Duolingo English Test — Read and Complete, Read and Select, Listen and Type, Interactive Writing, the Writing Sample, Read Then Speak, Interactive Speaking and the Speaking Sample.
- Spoken English — real conversations (an interview, a call to your bank, your first day in a team), a one-minute talk, shadowing, and the pronunciation check.
- German, French and Japanese — every scored section of the Goethe-Zertifikat (A1–B1), DELF (A1–B1) and JLPT (N5–N3) at your level, with a readiness report that applies each exam's pass rule. See German, French & Japanese.
The questions, passages and recordings are written for tuition.in in the shape of each exam's tasks; none is copied from a past paper. Listening recordings use British, Australian and North American voices, as the exams do.
Speaking
Prompts you would only hear in the exam are played, not shown. Your answer is recorded, transcribed word for word — fillers like “um” included — and timed. Your report then shows:
- your marks on the exam's criteria — for IELTS, Fluency & Coherence, Lexical Resource and Grammatical Range & Accuracy;
- your pace, pauses, words between pauses and fillers, measured from the timing of your words;
- your own words with the examiner's notes on them, three priorities, and one answer said a band higher.
Repeat and read-aloud tasks are scored word by word, the way PTE and ETS describe them: each word replaced, dropped or added is counted, and hesitations before and after are ignored.
Writing
The editor is timed like the exam and spell-check is off, as it is on test day. When the time runs out the editor locks; choose Keep writing, untimed if you are practising rather than rehearsing. Word count, PTE's form rules and the figures in an IELTS chart are checked exactly — a Task 1 that misreads the chart loses marks for it.
Listening and reading
Recordings play as many times as the exam allows — once for IELTS, TOEFL and PTE. You can read the questions first, as in the exam. After you check your answers you see each one against the key and can read the recording's script. IELTS completion answers follow IELTS's rules: spelling counts, and an answer over the word limit is wrong.
This week's plan
The plan shares out the week's sessions by how far each skill is from your target, and puts a skill you haven't measured first. Closer to your test date it changes phase — Build, then Sharpen, then daily full timed tasks in the last two weeks (Rehearse). Next up is always the single most useful task to do now.
Academic words
From the Lab you can add the Academic Word List — 570 word families that recur across university texts — a sublist at a time to your Vocabulary, where the words are reviewed on a spaced schedule. Words you already study in another deck stay where they are.
If you enrol in a course
Enrol in a course taught for IELTS, TOEFL, PTE, the Duolingo English Test, spoken English, the Goethe-Zertifikat, DELF or JLPT and its Lab is set up for you — your dashboard shows it the next time you open it. If you already chose a different test, yours stays first.
What the numbers mean
- Where the exam publishes a conversion, it is used — IELTS's listening and reading tables, IELTS and TOEFL rounding, Duolingo's CEFR alignment.
- Where it doesn't (TOEFL raw points to bands, PTE item points to 90), the figure is a straight proportion and is labelled approximate: direction, not a prediction.
- Each skill shows what it stands on — “15 of 20 questions”, “your latest Task 1 and Task 2” — and how much evidence that is.
- Judged IELTS marks round down to the half band, so the Lab won't tell you 7.0 when an examiner might give 6.5.
- None of it is an official score.
Your recordings
Your audio is sent for transcription and then discarded; only the transcript and the timing measures are kept with your attempt, so you can reopen a report later. Use headphones where you can, so the prompt isn't picked up as part of your answer.