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IELTS, the International English Language Testing System, is designed to assess the language ability of candidates who want to study or work where English is the language of communication.Jointly owned by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia, and Cambridge University Press & Assessment, IELTS confirms the highest international standards of English language assessment. IELTS is recognized by over 11,000 organizations worldwide, including universities, employers, professional bodies, immigration authorities, and other government agencies.
IELTS is offered up to four times a month in more than 140 countries.
IELTS is internationally focused in terms of its content.
IELTS has been developed by some of the world's leading experts in
language assessment and is supported by an extensive program of research, validation, and test development.
IELTS is designed to assess English language skills at all levels. There is no
pass or fail in IELTS. Results are reported as band scores on a scale from 1 (the lowest) to 9 (the highest).
You will receive a Test Report Form which reports a score for each of the four
skills (Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking), as well as an Overall Band Score. Results are issued 13 days after the test.
The validity of IELTS results is 2 years from the date of the test.
There are three modules - Academic and General Training. IELTS for UKVI
Both modules cover four skills – Listening, Reading, Writing, and
Speaking.
Timing: 30 minutes (plus 10 minutes transfer time).
Questions: 40 questions. A variety of question types is used, including multiple choice, matching, plan/map/diagram labeling, form completion, note completion, table completion, flow-chart completion, summary completion, sentence completion, and short-answer questions.
Test Parts: 4 parts.
Each section is heard once only. A variety of voices and native-speaker accents are used.
Skill Assessment: A wide range of listening skills is assessed, including understanding ideas and specific factual information, recognizing opinions and attitudes, and following the development of an argument.
Marking: Each correct answer receives 1 mark. Scores out of 40 are converted to the IELTS 9-band scale. Scores are reported in whole and half bands.
Timing: 60 minutes (no extra transfer time).
Questions: 40 questions. A variety of question types is used, including multiple-choice, identifying information (True/False/Not Given), identifying writer’s views/claims (Yes/No/Not Given), 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.
Academic Reading:
Each section contains one long text. Texts are authentic and are taken from books, journals, magazines, and newspapers. They are written for a non-specialist audience and cover academic topics of general interest. Texts range from descriptive and factual to discursive and analytical. Texts may contain non-verbal materials such as diagrams, graphs, or illustrations. A simple glossary is provided for technical terms.
General Training Reading:
Texts are authentic and are taken from notices, advertisements, company handbooks, official documents, books, magazines, and newspapers.
Skill Assessment: A wide range of reading skills is assessed, including reading for gist, main ideas, detail, understanding inferences and implied meaning, recognizing a writer’s opinions, attitudes, and purpose, and following the development of an argument.
Marking: Each correct answer receives 1 mark. Scores out of 40 are converted to the IELTS 9-band scale. Scores are reported in whole and half bands.
Timing: 60 minutes.
Tasks: 2 tasks. Candidates are required to write at least 150 words for Task 1 and at least 250 words for Task 2.
Task 2 contributes twice as much to the writing score when compared to Task 1
Responses to both tasks should be written in a formal style.
General Training Writing:
Skill Assessment: In both tasks, candidates are assessed on their ability to write responses appropriate in terms of content, the organization of ideas, and the accuracy and range of vocabulary and grammar.
Marking: Candidates are assessed on their performance on each task by certified IELTS examiners according to the four criteria of the IELTS Writing Test Band Descriptors (Task Achievement/Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range, and Accuracy). Task 2 contributes twice as much as Task 1 to the Writing score. Scores are reported in whole and half bands.
Timing: 11-14 minutes.
Tasks: 3 parts face-to-face oral interview with an examiner. The Speaking test is recorded.
Test Parts: 4 parts.
Skill Assessment: A wide range of speaking skills is assessed, including the ability to communicate opinions and information on everyday topics and common experiences, the ability to speak at length on a given topic using appropriate language and organizing ideas coherently, and the ability to express and justify opinions, analyze, discuss, and speculate about issues.
Marking: Candidates are assessed throughout the test by certified IELTS examiners according to the four criteria of the IELTS Speaking Test Band Descriptors (Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, Pronunciation). Scores are reported in whole and half bands.