Bengaluru: LeapScholar, South Asia’s largest study abroad platform, introduces AI powered IELTS test preparation feature to strengthen its test-prep category. SmartTests, is the first of it’s kind AI powered IELTS preparation offering in the industry, that enables students to get instant IELTS tests scores, without the hassle of waiting for the results to come by traditional methods. 

India is currently home to the largest number of IELTS test participants in the world with an estimated 1.3 to 1.4 million study abroad aspirants appearing every year. With this new feature as a part of its IELTS test preparation offerings, Leap Scholar enables instant expected test score access to a thriving community of over 1 million students on its platform. 

SmartTests provides actionable instant insights for writing and speaking tests within 10 seconds. It uses AI algorithms, trained over actual exams, to provide comprehensive feedback that tells the aspirant not just the areas to improve upon, but also evaluates on actual IELTS parameters to help them get the best IELTS test score. Students can take a free demo test to instantly get a predicted IELTS bands score. The AI technology is designed to provide accurate results based on actual test criteria including grammar, coherence, fluency, pronunciation etc. After the tests, students also get sample answers to learn from and can also review their recordings. The tests are regularly updated with latest topics from IELTS exams and the overall package with 3 speaking and 3 writing tests is priced at INR 299.

Commenting on the launch, Vaibhav Singh, Co-founder of Leap Scholar said, “IELTS test prep is an important part of the study abroad journey of a student and with the launch of SmartTests, we aim to enable over 1 million students with instant access to their expected test scores and comprehensive feedback based on actual IELTS parameters. As the leader in IELTS prep in India, we are continuously rolling out new features to help more test takers ace the exam. SmartTests is an innovative step in that direction.”

Continuing it’s popularity among aspirants, the IELTS Test Prep app by LeapScholar touched 1 million downloads milestone on the Google Play Store in less than nine months since launch. Currently, SmartTests has been introduced as a browser-only feature for now, but will soon be integrated into the popular IELTS Test prep app. It provides a plethora of benefits for aspirants including speaking practice with peers, live masterclasses by experts, 500+ IELTS questions for free, access to 40+ hours of recorded lectures and an IELTS plus bootcamp to crack the exam within 4 weeks. The popular one of a kind feature called ‘Speaking rooms’ in the app, that provides an open forum for aspirants to practise their english speaking skills with their peers, has garnered a user base of over 2L students in just two months. This feature, which can be accessed for free, has evolved into a thriving community of IELTS aspirants helping each other, and continues to grow at over 20% week over week.