About

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London. King's was established in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington, when it received its first royal charter (as a university college), and claims to be the fourth oldest university institution in England.^[6][7][8] In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London.^[9][10][11] In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998).

English practice

The lessons are well structured and user-friendly.
There are targeted recommendations for beginners and more advanced English-learners, before starting the lessons.
Includes lessons for academic as well as general English IELTS preparation.
Summary at the end of practice tests and lessons to remind you the keywords, topics and main ideas of the lesson, to help you learn how to approach a text. 25 hours of practice materials for each test section.
Learning meant for 4.5 to 7.5 language level of IELTS.

materials English

There are learning materials about how to take the test only included in PDF format.
A few test samples included.
You have the option to take preparation test before starting the actual simulation.
Unfortunately, the preparation test is the same as the simulation. More variety would have been more helpful.

modules

Find more than 260 activities in over 1000 study pages of content.
You get 500 pages of teaching materials.
Test tips and study strategies are provided in all modules.
By assessing your experience with the platform, you get a few extra days of access.
The short learning sections are easy to comprehend.
A study plan is included to help students organise their learning activities – students can download the plan as PDF to keep track. This could have been presented better.
Quizzes and assisted exercises are included in the preparation part.

preparation materials

IELTS Test Online
Includes over 80 interactive lessons and 350 tutorial videos.
A vocabulary introduction is available before each lesson.
There is an initial quiz to before each lesson to test your starting knowledge.
You'll find a lot of instructional videos included in the lessons. The platform includes preparation for a wide range of test takers: 5.0 to 9.0 score band.
You'll find a study plan to help you with the learning rhythm.

Vital

The pages are nicely displayed, and not using pop-ups.
Information is easy to comprehend and each lesson has an essential preview summary.
It's not very clear how to return to the main site menu.
If you exit a course before finishing it and later come back, you start from where you left off.
You can easily navigate between sections using the lesson menu on the left side.
Videos load immediately.

Cambridge

The website is straightforward and it's easy to get started. Users are not confused with a lot of information.
You ca read the FAQ and tutorial before getting started, or whenever you need to.
Minimalistic but modern page design. Intuitive and easy to navigate.
Good tutorial for first-time users: includes videos, pdf brochure and on-page FAQ.
Clear instructions. You can always access help features, even during the test.
The interface language can be changed to 4 other languages.
Tests open in a pop-up page, which doesn’t scale well on all monitors sizes. You may have to maximise the page manually.