In today’s post I’m going to share some tips and secrets from a recently-retired IELTS examiner. After you watch her talking about her work as an IELTS examiner, you will understand the examiner’s perspective much …
Questions: What does the bargraph show? Overall, what were the top three or four producers? Which country produced the most dates? How much more did Egypt produce than Iran? (in tonnes) What country was the …
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How Effective Is Online Learning? Online learning is here to stay and the benefits of preparing for IELTS online are significant. A recent *survey involving several thousand university leaders in the USA pointed out that …
Understanding IELTS marking All IELTS marking takes place at the test centre by trained markers and examiners Markers are trained to understand the IELTS marking policy and are required to demonstrate that they are marking …
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There is no pass or fail in IELTS. Candidates are graded on their performance, using scores from 1 to 9 for each part of the test – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. The results from …
The Speaking test is a face-to-face interview between the candidate and an examiner. The Speaking test is recorded. There are three parts to the test, and each part follows a specific pattern of tasks in order to …
There are two Writing tasks and BOTH must be completed. In Task 1, you have to respond to a situation by writing a letter, for example, asking for information or explaining a situation. You need …
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There are two Writing tasks and BOTH must be completed. In Task 1, you have to describe some visual information in your own words (a graph, table, chart or diagram). You need to write at least …
There are three sections of increasing difficulty. Section 1 may contain two or three short texts or several shorter texts. Section 2 contains two texts. In Section 3, there is one long text. The …
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There are three reading texts with a variety of question types. Texts come from books, journals, magazines, newspapers and online resources, written for a non-specialist audience. All the topics are of general interest to students …