IELTS INFORMATION & EXAMS :


IELTS - International English Launguage Testing System 

IELTS contains of Four Modules in Total :

1. Listening

2. Reading 

3. Writing

4. Speaking 


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1. Listening : 

Listening Test is divided into 4 sections. It has 40 items in total . Students get a question booklet on which Questions are printed . The tape is then played and students write answers simultaneously while the tape is going on.

* Students get time to look at the questions before the listening starts and check their work at the end of each section ....

Sections No. of Speakers No.of Items (Questions)
Section 12 (Two)10
Section 21 (One)10
Section 32-4 (Two-Four)10
Section 41 (One)10


2. Reading :

Two Formats ACADEMIC and GENERAL TRAINING :

60 Minutes and no extra time : 40 items 

ACADEMIC READING :
Reading Passages No.of Items (Questions)
Reading Passage 113-14
Reading Passage 213-14
Reading Passage 313-14
Total :40

Passages are taken from Newspaper , Magazines and catalogs and fro web sites. At least one sections contains detailed argumentative text.......



3. Writing :

Two Formats ACADEMIC & GENERAL TRAINING :

60 Minutes and no extra time . Two tasks in writing ..
Minimum 150 words are required for Task 1 and 250 words are required for Task 2 .

ACADEMIC WRITING :

Task 1 - a Bar chart , Pie Chart , Line Graph , Table ,Flow Chart or a process or a combination of more than one chart containing figures and details .

Task 2 - an Essay topic is a specific topic about specific research areas i.e , environment , pollution , study , science and research etc..

GENERAL TRAINING :

Task 1 - a short letter - formal , informal & semiformal style.

Task 2 - an essay topic about day-to-day life .i.e, society, children , family, education , lifestyle , etc ..


4. Speaking :

* Organised on a other day than the day of main exam .
* 11-14 minutes of time .
* Three parts .

Part 1 

* 4-5 minutes .
* Introduction and Interview.
* Examiner first introduces himself/herself and asks questions about familiar topics to the candidates.

Part 2

* 3-4 minutes.
* Individual long term .
* Candidate gets a Cue card with a topic on which he/she has to speak for 1-2 minutes and he/she gets one-minute time to prepare for the topic below he /she starts to speak. Examiner also asks one or two follow-up questions when the candidate stops speaking .

Part 3 

* 4-5 minutes 
* Extended discourse
* Examiner asks questions that are thematically linked to the topic in part 2 and the questions are more of abstract nature.

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