How it started
SmoothMock started with three of us in Nepal, all preparing for IELTS at the same time. Booking a real mock test meant paying a coaching center for one attempt, sitting across from someone reading the same script they read for the last candidate, and getting a band number back with no explanation of what to fix. Slots filled up weeks ahead, right when we needed practice the most: the week before the actual exam.
So we started building something for ourselves. A test that ran on the real band descriptors, graded the same way every time, and told us exactly which mistakes were costing us marks.
While digging into how test centers actually score speaking and writing, we kept running into PTE candidates describing the same problem: high fees for one attempt, feedback that didn't explain anything, no way to see a pattern in what they kept getting wrong. We're building SmoothMock for IELTS first, so the grading and the mock experience are actually right before we expand. PTE is next, built the same way.