Terms of Service

The service

IELTS Examiner provides automated feedback on practice IELTS Writing essays. Reports estimate how an essay would score against the four official IELTS criteria and are a study aid: they are not official IELTS results, they cannot predict the score of a future test paper, and using this service does not guarantee any band score. IELTS Examiner is an independent service and is not affiliated with IELTS, the British Council, IDP or Cambridge Assessment English.

Accounts

You sign in with your email address and a one-time verification code we send you. You are responsible for keeping access to that email account secure, because whoever can read it can sign in as you. Free allowances — the free first grading and the free monthly quick checks — are granted per person, so creating multiple accounts to multiply free allowances is not permitted and may lead to those accounts being closed.

Plans, credits and free grading

Your first full grading report is free, once per account, and the quick band check is free three times a month. The paid offers are: Diagnosis, a one-off $7 purchase covering one full report; Prep, a $14 monthly subscription including eight gradings per billing month; and Sprint, a one-off $19 purchase including six grading credits on the higher examiner tier. Allowances apply per billing month for Prep and per purchase for Sprint, and the allowance attached to your account is the one shown on the pricing page at the time you buy.

If a grading run fails because of an error on our side, the grading is not charged: the credit or allowance is restored automatically and you can submit again. Reports are delivered inside your account's grading history as soon as generation completes.

Payments and refunds

Checkout is handled by Gumroad (for Prep subscriptions) and Payhip (for Diagnosis and Sprint). Delivery is digital and begins immediately once the provider confirms payment and your plan is activated on your account. Prep renews monthly through Gumroad until cancelled; you can cancel at any time through the provider, and the plan stays active until the end of the paid month.

Because grading is generated on demand, completed reports are not refundable simply for a change of mind — but two promises always apply. If we cannot deliver a grading you have paid for, we refund it. And under our accuracy challenge, if an official Enquiry on Results re-mark of your real IELTS Writing differs from the overall band we gave the same writing by 1.0 band or more, send us your official Test Report Form and we refund that purchase in full. The full conditions are described on the method page.

Acceptable use

Submit your own practice writing. Do not submit essays on behalf of others for resale, attempt to access another user's account or reports, scrape the service, or use automated means to exhaust free allowances. Schools and agencies using the service for their own students should use the schools offering so usage is metered fairly. We may suspend accounts that abuse the service, after warning wherever the situation allows it.

Availability and liability

We work to keep the service available and the grading consistent, but it is provided as-is, without warranties about uninterrupted availability or about any particular exam outcome. To the extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising from a purchase is limited to the amount you paid for that purchase. Nothing in these terms removes rights you hold as a consumer in your own jurisdiction.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms as the service evolves; the version published on this page, with its date, is the one that applies, and material changes will be reflected here before they take effect for new purchases. Questions about these terms are welcome on the contact page.