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A story of how Sandra went from 6.5 to band 8 in IELTS speaking

For 8 weeks, we analysed 3 groups of students. We looked at how often they took a mock IELTS Speaking test, and compared their first score to their most recent score.

IELTS is not available in Afghanistan, so the girls have to travel across the Pakistan border to take the test. That is a journey that is risky at the best of times - and even more so given the situation there today.

IH Manchester is pleased to introduce Keenu, an AI-powered practice platform that strengthens what we already do in the classroom. This is not about replacing teacher corrections. It is about supporting and augmenting and giving both students and teachers better tools to focus on what matters most, actual improvement.

IELTS teachers are figuring out how to use AI in real time, and the patterns that work are starting to emerge. Here's what's working in the schools using Keenu, our AI IELTS practice platform for language schools.

The marking pile grows on Friday. The strongest students want more challenge. The weakest want more attention. The mock speaking tests you'd like to do never quite fit in. AI doesn't solve that on its own. But it can make the job of teaching IELTS easier in some specific ways.

Speaking is the part of IELTS preparation that most teachers I talk to find hardest to deliver well with a big class. One-to-one mock speaking tests are great, but they're time-consuming. Once you've got 20 students all needing speaking practice before test day, something has to give. Usually it's frequency. Students get one or two proper mocks, maybe three if they're lucky, and the rest of their preparation happens in pairs or small groups, which is useful but not the same