Wake English.Exams.Ap
Wake English.Exams.Ap
Everything you need to use Wake English.Exams.Ap — how to start, which exams it prepares for, how lessons, listening, writing and speaking practice work, how to read a report, and how to keep results safe.
For app version 0.1
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A student who wants to study or work abroad is usually asked for an English examination result, and the examination costs a great deal to sit. This app prepares a learner for it one short lesson at a time, with practice after every lesson and an explanation after every answer.
It is for learners of about fourteen and over, adults included, and it covers four examinations taken abroad, and one taken at school:
It does not mark writing or speaking. Marking an essay or a spoken answer properly needs a person, and the only other way would be to send the learner's work to an outside company, which this app never does. Instead it gives the task, a clock, a word count, a model answer and a checklist, and a button to send the writing to a teacher.
It does not copy official papers: its passages, recordings and questions are its own, written to the examination's published format. Its listening recordings are read by the phone's own voices, not recorded by real people. And its report describes work done in the app; it is not an examination result or a band score.
The app runs in a web browser, but it is meant to live on the home screen like any other app. On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the three dots and choose Add to Home screen or Install app. On iPhone, open it in Safari, tap the share button and choose Add to Home Screen.
Once it is there it opens full screen and works with no internet at all.
Opening the file inside WhatsApp, Gmail or a file manager shows a preview, and previews do not run apps: the buttons will not respond. Ask for the web link rather than the file, and open it in Chrome or Safari.
Tap Add a learner, then give a first name, an age and a picture. No email is asked for, and the free trial starts at once. Before it ends the app shows the plans; when it ends it offers a few more free days, once. An email is asked for only if you choose to pay, because the receipt goes there.
Nothing is locked. The lessons are numbered in a sensible order, but a learner whose examination is close can go straight to the skill they need most.
One lesson a day, five days a week, and one writing task and one speaking practice each week. Read every page, and read the explanation after every answer — including the ones you got right. Use earphones for listening practice.
▲ Back to the contentsIELTS is in seven parts. Listening and Speaking are the same for everyone; a learner takes either Academic Reading or General Training Reading, and in Writing Task 1 either the Academic lessons (charts and diagrams) or the General Training lessons (letters), depending on which version they need. Check with the university or immigration office which one they ask for.
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 1 The test, and Listening | What IELTS is, Academic or General Training, the band scores; then the four parts of Listening, with recordings to answer. |
| 2 Academic Reading | Every question type, with a passage for each, then three full-length practice passages. |
| 3 General Training Reading | Notices and adverts, texts about work, and one longer article. |
| 4 Writing Task 1 | Academic: line graphs, bar and pie charts, tables, processes and maps. General Training: formal, semi-formal and informal letters. Each ends in a writing task. |
| 5 Writing Task 2 | Every kind of essay question, planning, paragraphs, linking, vocabulary and grammar, with essays to write. |
| 6 Speaking | Parts 1, 2 and 3, fluency and pronunciation, with speaking practice. |
| 7 Grammar and vocabulary | The grammar, spelling and words that most often cost marks, including forms that are normal in Ghana but marked as errors in the examination. |
The app teaches IELTS on computer, because the paper test is being withdrawn from 2026. It never states a test fee, because fees change: check them on the official IELTS booking pages.
TOEFL is complete, in five parts, and teaches the new test of January 2026. The SAT is complete, in seven parts: three for Reading and Writing and four for Math. Each is written from its own official description.
The Duolingo English Test has six parts. It is taken at home on a computer, lasts about an hour and is scored from 10 to 160 by a computer. Some of its tasks are unlike any other exam's, and the app practises them in the nearest way a phone can:
In SAT Math, some answers are typed in rather than chosen. The app marks these exactly as the SAT does: a fraction or a decimal is right if it is equal to the answer (7/2 and 3.5 are the same), but a decimal that could have been longer must fill all five spaces (for two thirds, .6667 is right and .67 is wrong), and a mixed number such as 3 1/2 is wrong, because the SAT reads it as 31/2.
The IGCSE course is complete, in seven parts, and it is a different kind of thing from the other four. It is not an English test for foreigners: it is the school examination taken at about sixteen by pupils whose first language is English, and it is graded A* to G (or 9 to 1 under syllabus number 0990). It has no set books, which surprises almost everybody; every text in the examination is one the pupil has never seen.
The one thing a parent or teacher should know: Cambridge rebuilt the reading paper for first examination in 2027. It now has four compulsory questions of twenty marks each on three texts, the summary has a new five-mark part, and words picked out of a text are printed in bold rather than underlined. A textbook printed before 2025 describes the old paper, and a pupil who prepares from one will write answers of the wrong length. The app is written to the new syllabus and says so on its first page.
A school chooses between Paper 2, a two-hour writing examination, and Component 3, a portfolio of three pieces written during the year. A pupil takes one or the other, never both. The app covers each: Parts 3 and 4 are Paper 2, and Part 5 is the portfolio. The first lesson tells the pupil to ask their teacher which one their school takes, because it changes what they practise for a year and only the school knows.
Part 6 is the Speaking and Listening test, which is optional and whose marks are reported on their own, from 1 (high) to 5 (low), beside the subject grade. It never raises or lowers the English grade. Its practice uses the microphone in the same way as the IELTS and TOEFL speaking practice: the recording stays on the phone and is wiped when the pupil moves on.
Part 7 is accuracy — sentence boundaries, commas, apostrophes, agreement, tenses, spelling and proofreading — because on this examination's writing paper, spelling, punctuation and grammar are part of every writing mark. It includes a lesson on the usages that are normal and well understood in Ghanaian English but are marked as errors by an examination set against standard written British English. That lesson says plainly that it is about one examination and not about speaking "properly".
Three of the course's lessons carry a passage or texts written for the app, and five carry a piece of writing to do with a clock, a checklist and a model answer. As everywhere else in this app, it does not mark the writing.
This course is complete too, in seven parts, and it is the second of the two IGCSE English examinations. It is for pupils whose first language is not English but who study in it. Like First Language English it is graded A* to G, and like it, the school chooses the syllabus number. Here the two numbers mean something: under 0510 the speaking mark is reported separately and cannot change the grade, and under 0511 speaking is a quarter of the grade. The first lesson tells the pupil to ask their teacher which one they are entered for, because it decides how much of a year's practice should go on speaking, and only the school knows.
Unlike First Language English, nothing in this syllabus was restructured for 2027, so a textbook endorsed since 2024 still describes the right examination.
There are three papers and the app covers all three. Parts 1 and 2 are the four reading exercises of the first paper; Part 3 is the informal email and Part 4 the more formal piece, which may be an article, a report, an essay or a review; Part 5 is the listening paper, whose recordings the phone reads aloud twice, exactly as the examination plays each one twice; Part 6 is the speaking test, which the pupil's own teacher conducts, marks and records.
Seven lessons end in something to produce rather than something to answer: six pieces of writing of 120 to 160 words, one of each kind the examination sets, and a whole speaking test on one card, recorded on the phone. Each has a model answer and a checklist. As everywhere else in this app, it does not mark the writing or the speaking.
Part 7 is grammar, vocabulary and accuracy, and its last lesson is about the forms that are normal and correct in Ghanaian English but are marked as errors by an examination set against standard written British English. It says plainly, in its first paragraph, that Ghanaian English is a real variety of English and that the lesson is about one examination and not about how anybody should speak. It asks a pupil to change three habits at a time, not fifteen.
▲ Back to the contentsTap a lesson and its pages appear one at a time — Next page and Back move between them. On the last page, Start the drill appears (and Start the writing task or Start the speaking practice where the lesson has one). A learner who already knows the lesson can skip straight there from any page.
| Kind | What the learner does |
|---|---|
| Choose the answer | Taps one of three or four answers. The wrong answers are the traps the examination really sets, so guessing does not pay. |
| True, False or Not Given | Always shown in that order, as on the examination paper (or Yes, No, Not Given). |
| Type the answer | Types a word, a few words or a number, then taps Check. The word limit is printed under the box. |
As the examination marks them. Spelling counts, and an answer with more words than the limit is wrong even when the words are right. Capital letters and spare spaces do not matter. Where the examination accepts more than one form — British or American spelling, a number in figures or in words — every accepted form is shown after the answer.
A reading question shows its passage in a box above the answers. The box scrolls on its own, so the question and the answers stay close by; tap its title to fold it away.
After every answer, right or wrong, the app shows the right answer and why it is right, usually pointing to the words in the passage or recording. Nothing moves on by itself.
About four in ten questions in a round are drawn from what that learner has missed before. Mixed revision on the home screen draws questions from every lesson started.
▲ Back to the contentsA listening lesson has a recording. Nothing is downloaded: the phone reads the recording aloud with its own voices, a different voice for each speaker where the phone has more than one. That is why it costs no data and works with no internet — and also why the voices are not as natural as the real examination, where real people speak with British, Australian, American and other accents.
Settings has the speed (slower, normal, a little faster) and the voice. On iPhone, better voices can be added under Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices.
▲ Back to the contentsA writing task shows the question exactly as the examination would (with its chart, diagram or map for IELTS Academic Task 1), how long to spend and how many words to write.
The model answer is one good way to answer, not the only one, and the checklist is for the learner's own judgement. The app never gives a band for writing.
For each question, 🔊 Hear the question reads it aloud like an examiner. For an IELTS Part 2 card there is a one-minute clock to prepare, with a box for notes; then a speaking clock.
● Record my answer asks to use the microphone, so the learner can hear themselves afterwards — the most useful speaking practice there is when nobody is listening. The recording stays in the phone's memory only. It is never sent anywhere and never saved, and it is wiped the moment the learner moves to the next question or leaves the screen. The phone's own message asking permission appears the first time; the learner can say no.
If the phone cannot record, or permission is refused, the learner simply speaks aloud to the clock. After each answer, Show a model answer gives one good answer, which the phone can read aloud. At the end is a checklist built from the examination's speaking criteria.
The app does not mark speaking. The best check is a person: practise the same questions with a friend, a teacher or a family member.
▲ Back to the contentsReports, Settings, Support and the class dashboard sit behind a multiplication question. It is not security; it simply stops a report or a setting being changed by accident.
Points, drills done, best score and the day streak sit at the top. Below them, Go straight to a part has a button for every part. Each lesson tile shows how many pages and questions it has, whether it has a writing task or speaking practice, and — once done — the percentage right or a tick for the task.
My chart shows scores over time and a board of every lesson, green where it is secure. Questions I miss lists the questions this learner gets wrong most often, with a button to practise exactly those.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Questions per round | 5, 10, 15 or 20. A lesson's drill never repeats a question to fill a round. |
| Way of speaking and voice | Which accent and voice read the questions, models and recordings. If a voice is hard to make out, choose another and press Hear this voice. |
| Speed of the listening recordings | Slower to learn from, normal, or a little faster. |
| Sounds | Turns the tones off. Recordings still play when asked for. |
| Animations | Turns off movement. |
| Bring back questions I missed more often | Weaves past mistakes back into rounds. Leave it on. |
The report is written from the learner's own recorded answers: drills done, accuracy, each part and each lesson, a chart, the questions missed most with the point each one teaches, and recommendations. You can print it, save it as a PDF, email it or send it on WhatsApp. It is not a band score. The examination's own conversion from right answers to bands changes from test to test.
With a class licence, the teacher's dashboard shows every learner on the device, sorted so whoever needs attention comes first. A teacher using Wake Mark.Book.Ap can bring the weekly drill marks into their mark book. Writing is sent to the teacher with the button on each writing task.
▲ Back to the contentsA licence belongs to the household or the classroom, not to one learner. A family paying for three learners is never asked to pay again for the second.
Schools can receive a code after payment. Enter it on the plans screen. You need internet for this one step: a code is checked with our server the first time it is used. After that the app works with no internet, for as long as the plan lasts.
Each Wake app has its own codes, and a code for one app will not open another. If the wrong one is entered, the app says which app the code belongs to.
A warning appears a few days before. When it ends, nothing is deleted — the learner's whole history stays and returns the moment the plan is renewed.
▲ Back to the contentsTurn the phone's volume up and check it is not on silent. Some phones have no English voice installed: on Android, look in Settings for Text-to-speech; on iPhone, Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices. If the phone cannot read aloud at all, the words of the recording can still be read after answering.
The phone may have been told not to allow the microphone for this website. In Chrome, tap the lock beside the address and allow the microphone; on iPhone, Settings → Safari → Microphone. The practice still works without it, against the clock.
Look at the accepted answers shown: the usual cause is a spelling, a plural, or one word too many — all of which the examination marks wrong too. If you are sure the app is wrong, tell us through Support, saying which lesson and question.
Almost always the browser's data was cleared, or the app was opened in a different browser. Results live in the browser that made them. Restore from a backup — see the next chapter.
Close every tab of the app and open it again, with internet on.
▲ Back to the contentsEvery result and every piece of writing lives in this browser on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to us. That keeps a learner's work private — and it means that clearing the browser, changing phone or reinstalling will lose it unless you have saved a backup. Recordings are never kept at all.
Settings → Save a backup writes a small file to the device. Email it to yourself and it is safe. To bring it back: Settings → Restore from a backup. If the learner already exists on the device, the copy with more history is kept.
Settings → Clear results wipes that learner's scores but keeps the learner and the subscription. Settings → Erase this pupil removes the learner and everything they did. It cannot be undone, so save a backup first.
Wake English.Exams.Ap · user manual · for app version 0.1. One of the Wake Learning Apps. IELTS is jointly owned by the British Council, IDP IELTS and Cambridge University Press & Assessment, which also sets Cambridge IGCSE. TOEFL is a registered trademark of ETS. SAT is a registered trademark of the College Board. Duolingo English Test is a trademark of Duolingo. None of them endorses this app.
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