The IELTS test format Understanding IELTS

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Wherever you are in the world, the IELTS test you take will be the same. I'm going to talk

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a little bit now about what that test will look like. Over the next weeks of this course,

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we'll look in more detail at each part of the test and what you have to do. But today

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I'll give you an overview of the whole test so you can get the big picture. The first

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thing to note is that there are two modules to choose from, the Academic module and the

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General Training module. Which one's right for you depends on what you want to do. The

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Academic module is mostly for people who want to study at university. The General Training

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is mostly for people who want to either move to another country and need an English qualification

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to do that, or who want to study at a level below university. If you have a definite plan

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to use an IELTS qualification, be sure to check which one you need, Academic or General

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Training. Whichever module you take, you will be tested on all four language skills-- listening,

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reading, writing, and speaking. Everyone takes the same listening and speaking tests, but

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there are different reading and writing tests for the Academic and General Training modules.

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We'll look at both types during this course. You do the listening, reading, and writing

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tests all on the same day, but the speaking test is on a different day. It could be before

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or after the other three parts. Let's start with the speaking test. This part of the test

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lasts for about 13 minutes and there are three parts. In the first part you talk about yourself,

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your family, your work, things like that. In the second part you'll be given a topic

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to talk about, and then some time to prepare yourself and then give your talk. In the third

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and final part, the examiner will ask some questions connected to the topic in part two.

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We'll talk about the speaking test in more detail in week two of this course. Now moving

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on to listening test, this part of the test lasts around 40 minutes, and you have to answer

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40 questions that might be multiple-choice, note completion, matching, things like that.

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There are four sections, and you hear each section only once. We'll talk about the listening

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test in much more detail in week three of this course. So on to the writing test. As

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I said there are different modules for Academic and General Training, but either way, the

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test takes 60 minutes and there are two parts to the test, so you have to write two things.

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You have to write at least 150 words for part one and at least 250 words for part two. The

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type of task depends on the paper. The Academic paper gives you the sort of task you might

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have to do in university studies. We're going to talk in more detail about both Academic

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and General Training in weeks four and six of this course. Finally, the reading part

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of the test. Again there are different modules, but whether you're doing Academic or General

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Training, you'll have to answer 40 questions in one hour. These might be multiple-choice

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questions or matching parts of sentences or completing notes, things like that. There

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are three sections and different types of text. We'll tell you more about them when

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we look at reading in much more detail on the course in week five. So that's the overview

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of the IELTS test. Four parts testing the four skills of speaking, listening, reading,

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and writing. And in this course we'll look at each of these parts in more detail to try

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to help you develop techniques to do well in each of them.

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