A mock is a copy of the exam: same order, same timing, same pressure. Every Karvon mock is fully graded — essays and Speaking answers included.
Read about the exam formatFor familiarisation: 8 Listening and 12 Reading questions, one Writing task, 3 Speaking prompts — about a quarter of the real exam. Right for a first mock.
Topics: a photography course, birds in cities, the history of maps, the minimum wage, public transport; essay on renewable energy.
Topics: a library card, Giffen goods, the spread of paper, the science of sleep; essay on marrying later.
Topics: booking a tennis court, coral reefs, the number zero, the bicycle; essay on working from home.
Real exam scale: 40 Listening and 40 Reading questions, two Writing tasks.
Topics: joining a gym, a community centre, a sleep research project, the history of coffee, circadian rhythms, the bicycle, coral reefs; essay on the internet and concentration.
Topics: hiring a van, a city food festival, urban beekeeping, the history of glass, vertical farming, Silk Road caravanserais, forgetting and memory; essay on compulsory community service.
Topics: a lost bag, a country house tour, water use on farms, how birds navigate, the Aral Sea, urban heat islands, choice overload; essay on home cooking.
Topics: a summer sports camp, a wildlife park, a recycling survey, railway time, the honeybee's waggle dance, windcatchers, bilingualism and the brain; essay on competitive sport at school.
Topics: booking a cooking course, a new riverside park, food waste in student halls, the history of street lighting, bicycle sharing, how bats find their way, the return of the beaver (GT: a history of paper money); essay on handwriting at school.
Topics: joining a tree-planting group, a talk for new hospital volunteers, research on playground design, mangrove forests, the passenger lift, spider silk, what boredom is for (GT: the rise and fall of the department store); essay on paying children for housework.
Topics: arranging a house-cleaning service, a tour of an old slate mine, an oral-history project on a closed factory, sand as a resource running out, the ice trade and refrigeration, fungal networks between trees, crowds and the myth of panic (GT: the canal age in Britain); essay on spending money on space exploration.
Topics: applying for an allotment, a new repair café, a presentation on food labels, the desert locust, building with bamboo, the decline of the hedgehog, the psychology of nostalgia (GT: the story of canned food); essay on whether public libraries are still needed.
Topics: hiring a hall for a party, a tour of a restored windmill, research on noise in classrooms, cloud seeding, the history of the barcode, the axolotl and regeneration, why people procrastinate (GT: the story of the zip); essay on whether children grow up better in the countryside or in a city.
Topics: ordering a celebration cake, a briefing for marathon volunteers, research on hospital signs, measuring and predicting earthquakes, how the potato conquered Europe, how elephants communicate, practice and expertise (GT: the story of the wristwatch); essay on teaching children to manage money.
Topics: a home-insurance quote, a welcome talk at a community choir, research on queues, Africa's Great Green Wall, the first balloon flights, saving the kakapo, the psychology of first impressions (GT: the story of the vending machine); essay on a fixed retirement age.
Topics: booking a kayak trip, a welcome talk at a community radio station, research on street murals, bioluminescence, the history of chocolate, lichens, the psychology of curiosity (GT: the story of the supermarket trolley); essay on whether zoos should be closed.
Once it starts the sidebar disappears and the screen holds only the question and the timer — like the exam.
Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking, in exam order, each with its own clock.
The session is saved and you can continue. For an honest result, though, finish in one sitting.
Every mock returns an overall band plus the four skill bands; all attempts are kept in your history and plotted on your progress chart.
Listening and Reading are marked automatically and the raw score is converted with the official table. The essay is graded by AI against the four official criteria (with two tasks, Task 2 counts double). Speaking answers are recorded, transcribed, and returned with a band and feedback.
See the band score tableCreate an account — mocks are free and every result is kept in your history.