IELTS Coaching

Timing
60 minutes (no extra transfer time).

Questions
There are 40 questions. A variety of question types are used, chosen from the following: multiple choice, identifying information (True/False/Not Given), identifying a 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, short-answer questions.
There are 3 sections. The total text length is 2,150-2,750 words.
Academic Reading
Each section contains one long text. Texts are authentic and are taken from books, journals, magazines and newspapers. They have been written for a non-specialist audience and are on academic topics of general interest. Texts are appropriate to, and accessible to, test takers entering undergraduate or postgraduate courses or seeking professional registration. Texts range from descriptive and factual to discursive and analytical. Texts may contain non-verbal materials such as diagrams, graphs or illustrations. If texts contain technical terms, then a simple glossary is provided.
General Training Reading
Section 1 contains two or three short factual texts, one of which may be composite (consisting of 6-8 short texts related by topic, e.g. 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 (e.g. applying for jobs, company policies, pay and conditions, workplace facilities, staff development, and training).
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, official documents, books, magazines
and newspapers.

Skills assessed
A wide range of reading skills are assessed, including:
• reading for gist
• reading for main ideas
• reading for detail
• understanding inferences and implied meaning
• recognising writer’s opinions, attitudes and purpose
• 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
There are 2 tasks. You are required to write at least
150 words for Task 1 and at least 250 words for Task 2.

Test Parts
There are 2 parts.

Academic Writing
In Task 1, you have to explain some graphs, table, chart, or diagram in your own words by picking some information from pictures. According to the question asked candidates need to describe and explain data how something works or describe an object or event.

In Task 2, candidates are asked to write an essay in response to a point of view, favor, or problem.

Essays topics are based on general interests, that are suitable and easily understood by test takers entering various undergraduate or postgraduate courses or seeking professional registration. Responses to Task 1 and Task 2 should be written in an academic, semi-formal/neutral style.
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IELTS General Training Writing
In Task 1, you are presented with a situation and are asked to write a letter requesting information or explaining the situation. The letter may be personal or semi-formal/neutral in style.

In Task 2, you are asked to write an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem. The essay can be slightly more personal in style than the Academic Writing Task 2 essay.

Topics are of general interest.
Skills assessed
In both tasks, you are assessed on your ability to
write a response which is appropriate in terms of:
• content
• the organisation of ideas
• the accuracy and range of vocabulary and grammar.

Marking
You are assessed on your performance on each task
by certificated IELTS examiners according to the IELTS
Writing test assessment criteria (Task Achievement/Response, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy). The public version of the assessment criteria can be found at ielts.org/criteria.

Timing
11-14 minutes

Test Parts
There are 3 parts.

Part 1 Introduction and interview (4-5 minutes)
The examiner introduces him/herself and asks you to introduce yourself and confirm your identity. The Interviewer asks you general questions on familiar topics, e.g. home, family, work, studies, and interests.

Part 2 Individual long turn (3-4 minutes)
The examiner gives you a task card that asks you to talk about a particular topic and which includes points you can cover in your talk. You are given 1 minute to prepare your talk, and are given
a pencil and paper to make notes. You talk for 1-2 minutes on the topic. The examiner may then ask you one or two questions on the same topic.

Part 3 Two-way discussion (4-5 minutes)
The examiner asks further questions which are connected
to the topic of Part 2. These questions give you an opportunity to discuss more abstract issues and ideas.

Skills assessed
A wide range of speaking skills are assessed, including:
• the ability to communicate opinions and information on everyday topics and common experiences and situations by answering a range of questions
• the ability to speak at length on a given topic using appropriate language and organising ideas coherently
• the ability to express and justify opinions and to analyse,
discuss and speculate about issues.

Marking
You are assessed on your performance throughout the
test by certificated IELTS examiners according to the IELTS Speaking test assessment criteria (Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, Pronunciation). The public version of the assessment criteria can be found at ielts.org/criteria.