IELTS Academy
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IELTS Academy
IELTS is the abbreviation of International English Language Testing System. The name itself suggests what the test is about. Precisely the IELTS or International English Language Testing System is the world’s most popular test of its’ kind,conducted for testing the candidate’s ‘Proficiency on all forms of the English Language’. Proficiency in Listening (and understanding), Proficiency in Reading, Proficiency in speaking and Proficiency in writing the English Language are tested by the four parts of the IELTS exam. It is so famous and authentic that as well as over 9000 organizations (in the forms of Companies, Professional bodies and Immigration authorities) and institutions (in the forms of schools, Universities, and Educational institutions) worldwide accept the certificates issued by the IELTS and as per record more than 2.25 million candidates appeared in the test last year that is in 2015.
The format of the tests:
Stay calm and focused during tests by adopting effective test-taking strategies, such as reading questions carefully and budgeting time wisely.
The IELTS Examining authority assesses the student’s or candidate’s ability and depth of knowledge in listening, reading, writing and speaking the English language. The ‘Listening Test’, ‘Reading Test’ and ‘Written Test’ are conducted on the same day at a stretch without any break or interval in a time span of 2 hours and 45 minutes, while the ‘Speaking Test’, can be completed up to a week before or after the other tests and the time allotted for the test is 11-14 minutes. The IELTS tests have two different formats. 1) IELTS Academic Test and 2) IELTS General Training Test. The Listening test and the Speaking test are the same for both the types of tests, i.e. for the ‘IELTS Academic Test’, and for the ‘IELTS General Training Test’, though the subject matters of the ‘Reading’ and ‘Writing’ test differ from each other.
IELTS General Training Test:
Stay calm and focused during tests by adopting effective test-taking strategies, such as reading questions carefully and budgeting time wisely.
The ‘IELTS General Training Test’ is for those candidates who are interested in going to an English speaking country for secondary education, professional training or work. It is also required for migration to some specific countries, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. This format of the test focuses on the basic survival skills under broad social exposures and workplace environments
.As already mentioned the ‘IELTS’ examines and assesses the candidate’s total English skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking through a well contemplated and neatly structured pattern of tests, which are designed to reflect how a candidate would use the English language in the study, work or day-to-day communication in his new life abroad. The IELTS exams are held on Saturdays and Thursdays in more than 140 countries around the world and the ‘IELTS’ is available at more than 1,100 locations worldwide, including over 50 locations in the USA. There are 48 test dates in a calendar year, each year. To find out test dates in his area, a candidate should contact his nearest ‘IELTS’ test center. A list of all the IELTS test locations worldwide is available at the website: www.ielts.org.
The ‘IELTS’ is internationally focused on its’ test’s content. Texts and tasks are sourced from different publications from all over the English-speaking countries of the world. A range of native-speaker accents is used in the Listening test (Accents of British, American, North-American and Australian and some more). Also, all standard varieties of English are accepted in the ‘Written and Spoken Responses of the candidates. The tried and trusted test patterns or structures has been developed by some of the world’s leading experts in language assessment and is supported by an extensive program of research by experts around the world.
IELTS Academic Test
Stay calm and focused during tests by adopting effective test-taking strategies, such as reading questions carefully and budgeting time wisely.
The ‘IELTS’ is internationally focused on its’ test’s content. Texts and tasks are sourced from different publications from all over the English-speaking countries of the world. A range of native-speaker accents is used in the Listening test (Accents of British, American, North-American and Australian and some more). Also, all standard varieties of English are accepted in the ‘Written and Spoken Responses of the candidates. The tried and trusted test patterns or structures has been developed by some of the world’s leading experts in language assessment and is supported by an extensive program of research by experts around the world.