🇺🇦IELTS fee in Ukraine: 4,750 UAH (IELTS Online only)

No. British Council suspended paper-based and computer-delivered IELTS testing at its Ukrainian centres in March 2022, for the safety of candidates and staff, and has said it will resume once conditions allow. The only currently bookable option is IELTS Online.

IELTS Online is a remote version of the Academic test, taken from home under live webcam proctoring instead of at a test centre. It costs 4,750 UAH (about $106) through British Council, the same figure as the suspended in-venue computer-delivered fee.

Not currently. IELTS Online only offers the Academic version, and both General Training and UKVI require in-venue testing, which has been suspended in Ukraine since March 2022. If you need either format now, you'd have to travel to a country where in-venue testing is running, such as Poland, Romania, or Moldova.

British Council and IDP-affiliated venues operated in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, Cherkasy, and Zaporizhia before March 2022. In-venue testing at all of these locations is currently suspended.

By credit or debit card (Visa or Mastercard) online through the Test Taker Portal, the standard payment method for IELTS Online worldwide. Ukraine-specific local payment options couldn't be independently confirmed — check the portal directly before paying.

Under British Council's general IELTS Online policy, you can request a refund within 14 days of payment, provided it's before your test date. A medical certificate submitted within 2 days of the test date, in Ukrainian or English, can still qualify for a refund minus a 25% administration charge. Ukraine's dedicated cancellation-refund policy page couldn't be independently confirmed due to repeated fetch timeouts — verify on the Test Taker Portal before booking.

The published figures (4,750 UAH for computer-delivered/Online, 4,125 UAH for paper, 7,100 UAH for UKVI, 5,300 UAH for Life Skills) match British Council's pre-suspension in-venue fee table, but only the Online Academic fee is actually payable today — the others apply to formats that aren't currently offered in Ukraine.

The fee covers all four skills — Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking — plus one Test Report Form (TRF) sent to you and, if requested at registration, to a limited number of institutions or visa bodies free of charge. Extra copies of your TRF beyond the included number usually cost extra.

Two years from the test date, for both Academic and General Training. Most universities and immigration authorities won't accept a TRF older than that, so time your test around your application or visa deadline.

Yes, for a full retake — IELTS doesn't have a discounted retake fee. Some countries offer a cheaper IELTS One Skill Retake (OSR), letting you re-sit just one section instead of all four, where available.

A valid passport (the same one you'll bring on test day) is required at registration — your name and passport number must match exactly, since a mismatch can block you from sitting the test or collecting results.

No — a no-show without prior cancellation forfeits the full fee under both British Council and IDP's global policy. Always cancel or transfer in advance if you can't make it, rather than skipping the test.