What are the procedures for the IELTS written test?

Listening (Academic & Training). Listening test duration: 30 minutes, and you have 10 minutes to transcribe the answers onto the answer sheet. Listening test questions: ***Contains 4 monologues and dialogues. Each piece of listening material is played only once and corresponds to 10 questions. The order of the questions is consistent with the order in which the answers appear in the listening material.

Reading (academic). Reading test duration: 60 minutes. Reading test question type: ***Contains 3 passages and corresponding 40 questions. The number of questions that need to be answered varies from article to article. The content of the article and the title appear in the test paper. Reading (training). Reading test duration: 60 minutes. Reading test question type: ***Contains 3 parts and corresponding 40 questions, and the difficulty of the articles is from easy to difficult.

Writing (Academic). Writing test duration: 60 minutes. Writing test questions: ***Two essays. The first part (Task 1) is chart analysis writing. The second part (Task 2) is argumentative article writing. Writing (training). Writing test duration: 60 minutes. Writing test questions: ***Two essays. In the first part, candidates are required to write a personal letter based on the issue or event in the question. The second part is argumentative article writing. Extended information

Scoring criteria:

IELTS scoring criteria include: language fluency and coherence, vocabulary transformation, sentence richness and grammatical accuracy, pronunciation IELTS examiner’s notes These four scoring criteria are graded separately and are equally important.

The recruitment and training of IELTS writing and speaking examiners are carried out in accordance with established standards to ensure that the scorers understand the relevant IELTS scoring policies and effectively score the listening and reading papers according to the scoring standards. At each examination center, systematic monitoring will be carried out and a certain proportion of answer sheets will be double marked.

All test scores are recorded on the transcript, including a total score and four individual scores of listening, reading, writing and speaking. The test scores of the candidates are evaluated using a scoring system of 1-9 points. Each project is scored independently, and the total score is the average of the scores in the four parts, rounded up. Half points are allowed for both the overall score and the four individual scores.

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