IELTS study app WeSolve+: practice from your own notes

A phrase list you can read is not a phrase list you can use

Reading your own collocations back is recognition, and recognition is the half that comes free. The four IELTS components split cleanly on this: Listening and Reading accept recognition, while Speaking and Writing only accept production. A file reviewed by reading trains the first pair and leaves the second pair untouched, which is where most band scores are actually decided. The practical test is simple. Cover the file and say five of the phrases out loud with their usual partners. Whatever does not arrive within a second or two is a phrase you can read and cannot yet use, and that is the set worth working on.

How do I turn my vocabulary file into practice questions?

Upload the file as a PDF, a photo, or typed text, and WeSolve+ writes multiple choice and true or false questions from those words alone, up to 20 in a set on the paid plans and a fixed 10 on the free one, in 10 to 20 seconds. Each question is self contained and explained, so a phrase you miss gets its meaning back immediately instead of at the end.

Academic and General Training need different files

The Academic and General Training versions differ most in Writing Task 1, where one asks you to describe data and the other asks for a letter. That means the phrase file worth building is not the same for both, and material aimed at the wrong version produces fluent practice for a task you will not be given.

The misses are where a band score moves

Each set leaves behind what you got wrong, and for language that list is unusually specific: it is normally not the word but the collocation around it. Keeping it in one place means a short gap goes to the phrases that keep failing rather than to rereading the ones that already work, which is the default when a file is reviewed top to bottom. A collocation list also degrades in a particular way: the word survives and the preposition goes. Asking the phrase back as a question catches that, where reading the line again does not, because reading supplies the preposition before you notice it was missing.

Audio recaps and the listening component

The same upload becomes an audio recap in your own material. For IELTS this does double duty, because listening is itself one of the four components. Listening still encodes more weakly than being asked, so treat it as exposure between sessions rather than as the session.

Spacing a phrase file

Phrases return on a schedule set by how far off the test is, so something added in January comes back on a different rhythm than something added last week. The measured interval is a proportion of that delay, not a fixed week. Phrases you keep missing arrive sooner, and the ones that have settled stop taking up time. That matters more for language than for most subjects, because a phrase file grows all the way to test day and never stops accepting new entries. Without a schedule the newest additions crowd out the ones added in month one, which are exactly the ones far enough back to be at risk.

Speaking is the component practice files reach last

No upload rehearses a live interview. What it can do is make the vocabulary automatic enough that the interview is about ideas rather than about retrieval. Preparing for an oral exam is a separate skill worth practising out loud, with a person, on top of anything a file can give you. Reading your answers aloud from a set is a cheap middle step: it moves the phrase from something you recognise on a screen to something your mouth has produced at least once before the examiner asks for it.

Is it faithful to my own material?

Questions come only from what you upload, so you study what your teacher covered rather than a generic sample test. Keep the official preparation guidance as the reference for format and band descriptors. The app supplies drilling on your own words; the awarding bodies define what the bands mean.

Last updated: 2026-08-24 · Written with AI assistance and reviewed before publishing.