Understanding IELTS test format.

Hello, I'm Ruta and in this video we are going to learn about the international English language

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ing system for men. Assess your English based on receptive and productive skills, receptive skills are listening and reading, productive skills are writing and speaking, there are two categories of halls General and academic, the general exam should be taken by people who move to countries English-speaking countries for public relations or employment purposes, while academic must be undertaken by people who move to English-speaking countries for that purpose. of higher studies or any other course, but check which exam you are supposed to take before registering for the exam.

Now listening, what is your first exam, will be for 40 minutes, reading for 60 minutes, writing will be for 60 minutes again and speaking for 11 to 14 minutes of listening, reading and writing will be done in a day in a row, which means that during 2 hours and 40 minutes you will not have any break between the

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s, while the oral expression will be done at the same time. day or within 7 days before, before or after the reading and writing test, this depends on the schedule you get from IDP or the British Council, depending on who you register with, let's start listening now, listen as I told you that will be your first test will have four sections, these sections are in order of difficulty, that is, the first section will be the easiest, while the fourth will be the most difficult.

Be sure to write the answers on the question booklet. In a simultaneous listening and writing process, you must answer these 40 questions while listening to the audio at the end of the test. You will have 10 minutes to transfer the answers from the question booklet to an answer sheet that will be provided to you. Let's move on to reading now, reading is different for general and academic tests, unlike listening and speaking which are the same for general and academic reading, it has three sections for both general and academic tests. The general test will have one or two texts based on which you will have to answer 40 questions, these are in order of difficulty, which means that section one will be easier while section three will be a little difficult, i.e. the passage It may be a little longer or the language might be just a little difficult at the moment.

On the other hand, academic, you will have a long passage in each section, according to which you will have to answer 40 questions. Be sure to write the answers directly on the answer sheet because you will not have extra time to transfer the answers to the question. booklet to any other answer sheet now let's look at writing, even this section is a little different for general and academic. Both writing will have two tasks, task one and task two, generally you will have a letter in task one and an essay in task two. In the academic exam you will have to summarize a text and in task two you will have an essay.

This letter can be formal informal or semi-formal but the summary here in academic will be based on the image which could be in the form of graphical charts or diagrams in both tests you will have 20 minutes for task one and 40 minutes for task two for task one Let it be general or academic you must write at least 150 words and 250 words at least in the task two this is for let's say there is a minimum word limit threshold, if you are just below you will receive a penalty. There is no upper limit. Now let's look at talking.

Speaking is basically a one-on-one interaction between the examiner and the candidate who is recorded speaking. has three sections in total, section one has a brief introduction followed by a short question and answer conversation. The second part will be an individual speaking on this. The examiner will give him a topic to talk about which he will have to speak for you. to 2 minutes, but don't worry, you'll have a minute to prepare. The examiner will not interrupt him at all while he is speaking. The third part is a discussion here. The examiner will ask you five to six questions depending on the topic given. you in the second part, make sure you relax and talk as much as you can, that's what it's all about.

Formatting, watch my next video to learn the evaluation criteria to write and speak your best.