Built by the people who used to mark the test.
ABCD English started with a simple frustration: candidates were practising thousands of questions without ever learning why an answer was right. We rebuilt IELTS prep around the examiner’s reasoning — so every answer teaches you something.
From the marking room to your screen.
Our founding team spent years marking IELTS Writing and Speaking and training other examiners. We kept seeing the same thing: bright candidates losing half a band to habits no practice test ever named for them.
So we built the 4M evidence engine — a way of tagging every Reading and Listening answer by how it connects to the passage (Match, Map, Mean, Mirror), and grading Writing and Speaking against the exact official descriptors. No black-box score. No generic “work on your vocabulary.” Just the reason, every time.
Today ABCD English helps candidates across Australia and South Asia prepare with examiner-grade feedback that used to cost a fortune in private tutoring.
What we believe
Three principles behind every feature we ship.
Show the reason
A score with no explanation can’t be improved. Every answer comes with the examiner’s rationale attached.
Honest about accuracy
We state our confidence band on every machine score. You always know how much to trust the number.
Practice that compounds
Your mistakes become your next drills. The platform gets more personal the more you use it.
Marked by people who’ve marked thousands.
Our rationales and descriptors are reviewed by former IELTS examiners.
A. Rahman
15 years marking Academic & General Writing. Leads our descriptor calibration.
S. Khan
Trained examiners across three test centres. Designs our Speaking rubric feedback.
M. Jahan
Built the 4M tagging framework from years of item analysis.