What Is IELTS?

What Is IELTS?

IELTS Exam

The IELTS Academic will carry questions which assess your ability to work in a higher learning environment. The IELTS General, will aim to test your ability to grasp the knowledge of English language in everyday life. Since you’d be taking the test to study or to work or to migrate to a particular set of countries you need to have a good English knowledge in writing, listening,speaking and reading.

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  • How to prepare for IELTS?
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  • What books need to be prepared for IELTS?

About IELTS Exam:

Listening(30 minutes)

You will listen to four recordings of native English speakers and then write your answers to a series of questions.

  • The first two sections deal with situations set in everyday social contexts. 
  • The final two sections deal with situations set in educational and training contexts. 

The recordings are heard only once. They include a range of accents, including American, Australian,  British, New Zealand, and Canadian.

Speaking(11–14 minutes)

The speaking section assesses your use of spoken English. Every test is recorded.The test consists of an oral interview between the test takers’ and an examiner.In the Speaking Test, you can be totally lying, making up stories and saying things that are unpopular, and still score high. How you say it matters, not what you say.

  • The examiner introduces him/herself and checks the test takers’ identity.
  • They then ask the test takers general questions on some familiar topics such as home, family, work, studies and interests. To ensure consistency, questions are taken from a script.

Get a practice partner for speaking preparation.It is even better if you have school or college friends preparing with you, because you will be comfortable around them.

Writing (60 minutes)

There are two Writing tasks and BOTH must be completed. Writing is all about Structure.

  • In Task 1, test takers are asked to describe some visual information (graph/table/chart/diagram) in their own words. They need to write 150 words in about 20 minutes. 
  • In Task 2, they respond to a point of view or argument or problem. They need to write 250 words in about 40 minutes.

Reading (60 minutes)

The Reading section consists of 40 questions, designed to test a wide range of reading skills. There are only 5 different types of questions in the Reading Test. Only one type of question requires you to have full understanding of the passage. All the other 4 types of questions require you to locate information.

A variety of question types are used, chosen from the following; 

  • Multiple choice
  • Identifying information
  • identifying the writer’s views/claims
  • matching information
  • matching headings
  • matching features, 
  • matching sentence endings
  • sentence completion
  • summary completion
  • note completion
  • table completion
  • flow-chart completion
  • diagram label completion and short-answer questions.

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