Ielts General Information

What does IELTS stand for?

• Interlanguage English Language Test Service

• International English Language Testing System

• Instructional English Language Terms Supervision

The test scores are divided into 9:

• Competences

• Skills

• Bands

Academic Ielts and General Training have different:

• Speaking tasks

• Listening tasks

• Writing and reading tasks

• All tasks are different

A band 6 for linguistically demanding academic (masters) courses is:

• Acceptable

• Probably Acceptable

• English Study Needed

A band 6.5 for less demanding academic courses (short technical) courses

• Acceptable

• Probably Acceptable

• English study needed

A band 6.5 for linguistically demanding training (specialized) courses is:

• Acceptable

• Probably acceptable

• English Study needed

A band 5.5 for linguistically less demanding training (like on the job training)

courses is:

• Acceptable

• Probably acceptable

• English Study needed

The listening component takes_______minutes to complete.

• 30

• 40

• 60

Which statements are true about the listening section: (select all that apply)

• There are 40 questions

• The final two sections are set in educational and training contexts.

• The first two sections are set in everyday social contexts.

• In section 3 there is a conversation between up to 4 speakers and section 4 is a monologue.

• There is a conversation between two speakers in section 1 and a monologue in section 2.

The reading component takes ____ minutes.

• 40

• 60

• 90