An online English testing system built to match real IELTS and VSTEP exam conditions — from the interface and the timing to the rules candidates work under.
A candidate gets used to one interface, then walks into the exam and meets another. How many marks are lost to fumbling with the controls rather than to a gap in ability — nobody knows. Vigo Exam was built to remove that gap: a mock sitting should match the real one down to the last click.
An online English testing system built to match real IELTS and VSTEP exam conditions — from the interface and the timing to the rules candidates work under.
It runs independently but works alongside the Vigo platform: Vigo handles the learning, Vigo Exam handles the measurement. Learners follow a path on Vigo, then have their level checked at set points through the year.
The entire interface is in English, not bilingual, exactly as in a computer-delivered IELTS room. During the test there is no way out except to submit. A countdown clock, question flagging for review, and a navigation bar showing clearly which questions have been answered.
IELTS, VSTEP and general English papers at a range of levels. The question bank is tagged by section, question type, difficulty and category — so new papers can be assembled from existing questions.
Reading and Listening are marked automatically on submission. Writing is marked by AI, with a teacher able to review before results are released. Turnaround drops from days to minutes.
What matters more than the number of papers is how fast new ones can be added. The system is data-driven: paper content lives in a data structure kept entirely separate from the interface rather than hard-coded into the software. Because of that, loading a new paper takes minutes.
Load the data and it is done — no code changes, no new release. The academic lead can do it directly, on the same day the paper arrives.
Duration, the word-count threshold for Writing, whether audio plays once or can be replayed — all set per paper type. Lock them down for IELTS and VSTEP mock sittings; allow replays for school progress checks.
Built this way, the paper library grows at the pace of teaching and learning rather than waiting on a software release cycle. When a real exam format changes, most of the adjustment is a configuration change too.
The system handles the situations a real computer room throws up: connection dropping mid-test, automatic submission at time-up, logging in on the wrong account, opening the test on a phone by mistake.
Results do not stop at a total score. There is analysis by section and by question type, with an explanation of why the correct answer is correct and why a candidate may have chosen otherwise.
The whole paper can be reviewed, Listening comes with a transcript, and incorrect answers can be filtered out on their own. Attempt history shows progress across sittings.
Tell us the scale and the test format — we will set up the session and hand over the results.
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