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IELTS
1. General information
❦ The test evaluates the ability of four language
skills: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
❦ The IELTS test uses a 9-band score system on a
scale from 1 (non-user of English) to 9.
❦ There are 2 types of IELTS:
* Academic module
For people to study at an undergraduate or
postgraduate levels
Or if people who are seeking professional
registration, doctors, nurses.
* General Training module
For people to migrate to an English-speaking
country (Australia, UK, US, Canada...)
People who are training or studying at below
degree level.
A. Format
1) Listening
The IELTS Listening test is designed to assess a wide
range of listening skills, including how well you:
❦ understand main ideas and specific factual
information
❦ recognize the opinions, attitudes and purpose
of a speaker
❦ follow the development of an argument.
# Format:
Recording 1: a conversation between two
people set in an everyday social context.
Recording 2: a monologue set in an
everyday social context, e.g. a speech
about local facilities.
Recording 3: a conversation between up to
four people set in an educational or
training context, e.g. a university tutor and
a student discussing an assignment.
Recording 4: a monologue on an academic
subject, e.g. a university lecture.
# Duration:
The IELTS Listening test takes approximately 30
minutes, and you are allowed an extra 10 minutes to
transfer your answers from your question booklet to
your answer sheet.
# Number of questions: 40 questions.
# Types of questions:
Various question types are used, chosen from the
following: multiple choice, matching,
plan/map/diagram labeling, form/note/table/flow-
chart/summary completion, and sentence completion.
2) Reading
The IELTS Reading test is designed to assess a wide
range of reading skills, including how well you:
read for the general sense of a passage
read for the main ideas
read for detail
understand inferences and implied
meaning
recognize a writer’s opinions, attitudes and
purpose
follow the development of an argument.
3) Writing
The IELTS Writing test is designed to assess a wide
range of writing skills, including how well you:
# Duration:
# Type of tasks:
Two tasks: Task 1 and Task 2. You will be asked to
write at least 150 words for Task 1 and at least 250
words for Task 2.
4) Speaking
# Format: