Test Takers Home Page. Test Takers - Listening sample. Test Takers - Academic Reading sample. IELTS Essentials - Home. IELTS Essentials - Listening practice test. The Listening test is 30 minutes long (plus 10 minutes transfer time) and is four separate recordings.
The Listening test is the same for both Academic and General Training tests. IELTS Test Sections There are four sections: Section 1 is a conversation between two people set in an everyday context (eg. a conversation in an accomodation agency) Section 2 is a monologue set in an everyday social context (eg. a speech about local families) Section 3 is a conversation between up to four people set in an educational or training context (eg. a university tutor and student discussing an assignment) Section 4 is a monologue on an academic subject (eg. a university lecture) Free Listening Sample Tasks The following IELTS Listening Sample Tasks are to be used with the answer sheet and MP3 audio files/transcripts.
IELTS Essentials - General Training Reading Practice Test. The General Training Reading test is 60 minutes long.
There are 3 sections. Section 1 contains two or three short factual texts, oneof which may be a composite (consisting of 6-8 short texts related by topic, eg. hotel advertisements). Topics are relevant to everyday life in an English-speaking country. Section 2 contains two short factual texts focusing on work-related issues (eg. applying for jobs, company policies, pay and conditions) Section 3 contains one longer, more complex text on a topic of general interest Texts are authentic and are taken from notices, advertisements, company handbooks, books, magazines and newspapers. Question types Marking Each correct answer receives 1 mark.
Exams - British Council - LearnEnglish Professionals. The IELTS exam assesses how well you can understand and use the kind of English you need to study in an English-speaking country.
There are four tests which all candidates have to take: listening, reading, writing and speaking. The tests are always taken in this order, and the first three tests are always taken in one day, with the speaking test taken on the same day or up to two days later. Each test focuses on a different skill: The modules: The listening and speaking tests are the same for all candidates but the reading and writing sections of IELTS are available in two different modules: General Training and Academic. The General Training module is usually taken by people who want to emigrate, and the Academic module is taken by people who want to study abroad.
IELTS is not designed to assess your specialised knowledge and you may not get questions from your particular field. Scores: You do not pass or fail with IELTS. Click here to read about the IELTS exam and do some activities. Exams - British Council - LearnEnglish - Professionals. In IELTS the listening comprehension is designed to assess your ability to understand spoken English and is the same for all candidates.
There is a pre-recorded tape which lasts for about thirty minutes. There is a total of about forty questions. There are four sections in the test. Each section may contain two or three linked passages of two to three minutes each, or one longer passage of about five minutes. The passages get more difficult as you progress through the tape. The earlier sections use situations in which you may find yourself on first arriving in an English-speaking country, when you need 'survival English'. In the later sections the topics usually concern education and training. Exams-British Council - LearnEnglish - Professionals. The IELTS reading test lasts for sixty minutes and assesses how well you can understand the type of texts you will find in the course of your studies.
The question booklet contains three reading passages (sometimes illustrated with graphs, tables or diagrams) and each passage has accompanying questions. The texts, which tend to increase in difficulty throughout the paper, vary in length, and so does the number of questions on each passage. The passages are usually from 700 - 1000 words long for the academic module and shorter in the general training module. There is a total of about forty questions. Sometimes these come before the reading passage and sometimes after. There is a wide range of different question types. Fill in gaps, for example in a passage of written text or in a tablematch headings to written text or to diagrams or chartscomplete sentencesgive short answers to open questionsanswer multiple-choice questions How to do it. Teach IELTS videos. IELTS teaching resources. BC teachertrainer.