Ielts Training

 

Academic vs. General

There are two versions of IELTS: Academic and General.

1. Certificate of Academic IELTS is used for admission to schools, colleges and universities in English-speaking countries.
2. The certificate General Training IELTS (and sometimes Academic IELTS) is mandatory for all who wish to immigrate to or work in UK, Canada, Australia, USA, New Zealand, etc.

It is advised not to consider a report older than two years to be valid, unless the user proves that he/she has worked to maintain his/her level of English.

Usually IELTS Academic is conducted once in two weeks and IELTS General once in four weeks.

IELTS consists of 4 parts:

Listening

Reading

Writing

Speaking

The total time of IELTS is 2 hours 45 minutes. The listening, reading and writing parts are completed in one sitting in a common exam auditorium, while the speaking part is taken individually with an examiner on the same day or up to week before or after the other tests.

Listening and Speaking modules are the same for Academic and General IELTS, while Reading and Writing modules are different.

All the parts are evaluated on a scale from 0 to 9 points. The total score is counted as arithmetic mean of the four section scores.