IELTs Exam Format (Both Academic and General Test) for students preparing to take IELTS exam to study abroad.

1. IELTS
Test format

2. 1. Academic Test
2. General Training

3. Test Format
• All same listening and speaking
• Different reading and writing tests
• Listening, reading and writing sections are all completed on
the same day without any break
• Speaking- a week before or after the other tests ( 2 hours,
45 minutes

4. Test Format Listening
• Recording 1 – a conversation between two people
• Recording 2 - a monologue set in an everyday social context.
• Recording 3 – a conversation between up to four people set in an
educational or training context
• Recording 4 - a monologue on an academic subject

5. Evaluation
• Main idea
• Factual Information
• Opinions
• Purpose
• Attitude of speaker
• Evidence to support you’re the development of an idea

6. Listening Paper Format
• Four parts all with 10 questions
• 30 minutes ( 10 minutes transfer time)
• No of questions 40
• Multiple choice, matching,
plan/map/diagram/labelling/form/note/table/flowchart / summary completion/
sentence completion
• Poor spelling and grammar are penalized

7. Task type 1- Multiple Questions
• To test detailed understanding of specific points or
• An overall understanding of the main points of the listening text
• Number of questions varies
• Require to chose correction answer- from options A,B,C
• Sometimes more than one option

8. Task Type 2- Matching
• To test the ability to follow the conversation between two people
• Ability to recognize relationship and connections between facts
• Questions varies
• Match list of items

9. Task Type 3- Plan, Map, Diagram, Labelling
• Ability to describe a place
• Ability to relate visual representation
• Language expressing spatial relationships and directions

10. Task type 4- forms, note, table, flow-chart, Summary
completion
• fill in the gaps in an outline of part or of all of the listening text
• Should take care of number of words
• No more than two words or numbers
• Penalize writing more than the stated number of words
• Hyphenated words count a single word
• Contracted words will not be tested

11. Task Type 5- Sentence Completion
• Summarizing key information from all the listening text
• Fill the gap in each sentence using information from text
• Word limit is given
• Understand functional relationships such as cause and effect

12. Task type 6- Short question answers
• Write short answers using information from the listening text
• Word limit is given
• List two or three points
• Focuses on concrete facts, such as places, price, time

13. How test is marked?
• Certified markers
• Further analyzed by Cambridge assessment English
• Band score conversion table is produced
• Scores out of 40 into the IELTS 9- band scale
• Scores are reported in whole band or half bands

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