IELTS Exam Pattern 2023
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IELTS Exam Pattern (Section Wise)
IELTS Reading Pattern
Three reading passages with a variety of questions using a number of task types.
Task types:
- Multiple choice
- Identifying information
- Identifying the writer’s views/claims
- Matching information
- Matching headings
- Matching features
- Matching sentence endings
- Sentence completion
- Summary completion
- Note completion
- Table completion
- Flow-chart completion
- Diagram label completion
- Short-answer questions
Test Format: Paper
Timing: 60 minutes
No. of questions: 40
Marks: Each question is worth 1 mark.
The Reading section consists of 40 questions designed to assess a variety of reading abilities. The first section is about obtaining and delivering general factual information, such as notices, advertisements, and timetables. The second section,' includes job descriptions, contracts, and materials for staff development and training. The third section includes items such as newspapers, magazines, and fictional and nonfiction book excerpts.
Task Types:
- Multiple choice
- Identifying information
- Identifying writer’s views/claims
- Matching information
- Matching headings
- Matching features
- Matching sentence endings
- Sentence completion
- Summary completion
- Note completion
- Table completion
- Flow-chart completion
- Diagram label completion
- Short-answer questions
Test Format: Paper
Timing: 60 minutes
No. of questions: 40
Marks: Each question is worth 1 mark.
IELTS Writing Pattern
IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
Test format – General Training Writing (60 minutes)
In Writing Task 1, students may be asked to describe facts or figures presented in one or more graphs, charts, or tables on a related topic, or they may be given a diagram of a machine, device, or process and asked to explain how it works. They should write in an academic or semi-formal/neutral style, highlighting the most important and relevant points.This task should take no more than 20 minutes for test takers. This task assesses the ability to identify the most important and relevant information and trends in a graph, chart, table, or diagram, and to provide a well-organised overview of it in an academic style using accurate language.
IELTS General Writing Task 1
Test Format – General Training Writing (60 minutes)
In Writing Task 1, test takers are given a circumstance and asked to write a personal response in the form of an informal, semi-formal, or formal letter of at least 150 words in the assigned answer booklet.
IELTS Speaking Pattern
No. of questions: Variable
Timing: 11–14 minutes
IELTS Listening Pattern
Task Types:
- Multiple choice
- matching
- plan/map/diagram labelling
- form/note/table/flow-chart/summary completion
- sentence completion