CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THE TEST Laxcuace rae yrervartonat. EN Testine System (IELTS ) sa al al yal li The IELTS test has two forms: the Academic test (or module) and the general taining test (or module). The module that you take depends on the reason that you are taking it for. In general, the aeademic module is for those ‘people who arc tying 16 yain entry onto undergraduate or Posigraduate education courses or for professional reasons ‘The general training module is for those people who wish to Join some kinds of vocational or training courses, secondary schools or for immigration purposes A Feely paal SIN fast IELTS Jal ge cle g oa SR oe aD he pa gl las pd as say De as FA lie oN JS) 5 le Thay «LN wed cs te Spanley J Ue Ss Jae a ap Died ans BT Gye Gal elle gt pled lea Od Sane i ce ARR ia J aged Both seademic and general training modules reflect real life Simations to test whether w candidate would survive in English speaking social and academic environments, For example, part 2 of the speaking section asks eandidates to Ualk,afier { niinute’s preparation, for 1 10 2 minutes on a ongiven yeneral topic. This would test General Training candidates to see if they could give a "work related presentction” to fellow work colleagues and would test “Academie candidates if they ean give a "university style presensation" wo flow stude have the English language capability to perform hese tasks under some kknd of pressure : BA BD ea oly Ge GS GA le Nf Ad py Ja Al Sao Sa Sebo iee ety SSD pay Js IL Tests whether candidates chad oe a a The IELTS test (both Academie and General ‘Training ‘modules) is divided into four parts: reading, writing listening and speaking. The listening and speaking tests are exactly the same for the academic and general ining ‘modules but the reading and writing tess are differen. ahs pee a oh ay cen 6 sy IELTS 5! uy coy put e us Sel Ly AE I A (oly SK) Gy MSI AS Ga LL LIAS Ly Pa py AN tl ‘THE ACADEMIC READING TEST Seale Sofi bts] This is a | hour test in 3 sections with 40 questions besed on 1 reading text per section. The length of the Academic reading test will be between 2000 and 2500 words Candidates are given a question paper and an answer paper They may wate on the question paper but they may nai remove it from the test room after the test, All answers must be put onto the reading answer sheet before the end of the hour - there is no exira time aller dhe | hour sat for the academic reading test for the transfer of answers to the answer paper. ABAD pestle yoy Let yw ell sl ad Seb c dos BE tel BD Cie pa J THO ge JL ASEM pad Less Sats 2500-2 a es J Ca Ja Aas and AL eg a Gly Ld 3 cians 1h) Ria (4351 A vatlety of question types is used. Questions types tha yeu Will ce ill ustily come trom th fllowng list ti gy tindey ahng multiple choice short answer sentence completion ‘otes/summary/diagram/Mow claari completion Gaye Det J chetld Jct MS