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Exam Pattern of IELTS

Exam Pattern of IELTS

IELTS basically stands for International English Language Testing System. It is a world-proven and standard English test and has become synonymous. Knowledge Icon is securely designed to access the language ability of candidates who want to study abroad in any desired institutes or desires to work abroad. Best IELTS Institute provides proficient tests in two modules:

  1. General training module (non-academic training to gain work experience and for immigration purpose).
  2. Academic module (meets english requirements of universities or institutes).

In this blog, you learn the Exam Pattern of IELTS. IELTS is administered by University of Cambridge ESOL examinations, The British Council and IDP Education Australia. Institute for IELTS Measures ability to communicate in English including four skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading. IELTS is scored in 9 bands, each band specifies competence in English accordingly.


Exam Pattern of IELTS
IELTS exam consists of four modules:
  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Speaking

In reading and writing modules candidates are provided with options, whether to go for general training module or academic module. IELTS Exam Pattern is formatted as:
Total time allotted to the exam will be 2hours and 45 minutes.
Listening, reading and writing will be conducted in one day.
Speaking test will be conducted either before or after the week of other modules.

Listening Section:

This section comprises of 40 questions and is divided into 4 sections. First, two sections are based on social survivals and the rest two sections are based on education and training orientation. Time permitted to this section will be 40 minutes. The listening tape will be played once for 30 minutes and in last 10 minutes, candidates are used to expressing opinions they heard through a tape.

Reading Section:
It is a 60 minutes test where candidates will be given 40 conversations and series of three texts. Each text contains 13-14 conversations of a different format. Similar questions will be asked but of different format text. The format of text might be newspapers, notices, advertisements, instruction manuals, books etc.

Writing Section:
These sections consist of two mandatory task (writing) with a permitted time of 60 minutes. One of the tasks will be of 20 minutes where candidates are asked to write (150 words) on the visuals presented like diagrams, charts, graphs or tables. The second task will be 40 minutes where candidates will be writing on the task in not more than 250 words writing and justifying the opinion or idea.

Speaking Section:
This section is basically one to one interaction between the candidates and the examiner. Test varies from 11-14 minutes, with nature of interactions as introduction and interview, long turn conversation and discussion.

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