Best IELTS Coaching Classes in Ahmedabad for 7+ Band Score

In the IELTS listening test, you will be given four audio clips played once, with each correct answer earning one mark that contributes to your band score. It assesses your ability to comprehend spoken English in various contexts, including real-world situations. The assessment involves a series of recordings featuring conversations, monologues, and discussions by native-language speakers with different accents. In total 40 questions, question types including multiple-choice, Map or plan labelling, Form/Summary/Sentence completion, etc all within 30 minutes. An extra 10 minutes provided for transferring your answers to the answer sheet. This section is common to both the academic and general tests.

You will be listening to 4 audio to answer the questions. The audios are as follows,

• Recording 1: This will be a conversation between two people on any topic related to everyday happening.
• Recording 2: This is a social context monologue spoken by a native language speaker.
• Recording 3: A discussion on any education-related topic by two or more people will be played.
• Recording 4: Monologue by a speaker about education trends, its curriculum, admission process, etc. 

The IELTS reading test is a 60 minute task with 40 questions provided. It used to assess your overall reading abilities and comprehension of texts. The test measures practical reading skills through texts related to general interest topics and everyday issues, such as advertisements, job descriptions, and instruction manuals, for the General Training test. For the Academic Training test, the texts are more academically oriented, often sourced from books, journals, and newspapers. This module consists of 14 different question types including matching headings, locating information, short answer questions, true or false, summary completion and more. 

The IELTS Reading test is divided into two types,

• IELTS Academic Reading: The academic reading test consists of 3 passages with 40 questions to be answered in 60 minutes. The passages are taken from books, magazines, journals or newspapers.
• IELTS General Reading: In this test, there are three sections involved. Section 1 contains shorter texts related to ‘social survival’. Section 2 comprises two texts related to ‘workplace survival’. In Section 3, there is one long text related to ‘general reading’. The total number of questions involved in the test is 40 which needs to be answered in 60 minutes.

The Writing task will be conducted within a 60-minute timeframe, where you will be required to write a 150-word essay for 20 minutes followed by a 250-word essay in 40 minutes. Task 2 is similar for both IELTS versions. The writing tasks are as follows. 

The writing tasks for both academic and general are as follows.

• Academic writing task 1: You will be writing a 150 words essay, describing the given visual representation. The question types used are pie charts, maps, process diagrams, tables, bar graphs, and line charts.
• General writing task 1: This writing task is to test your survival on foreign grounds. This is a letter-writing task, where you will be asked to write a 150 word essay. There are 3 types of letters namely formal letters, informal letters, and semi-formal letters.
• Writing task 2: This is a common task for both academic and general tests. You will be expressing your view or opinion on the given statement in 250 words. The given statements will be regarding any of the following types, agree disagree essay, discuss both views essay, problem and solution essay, advantage and disadvantages essay, and double questions essay. 

The IELTS Speaking test is the same for both General Training and Academic Training test-takers. This face-to-face interview with a certified IELTS examiner assesses your spoken English skills in real-life situations and everyday communication within an English-speaking environment. The test lasts for 11-14 minutes and consists of three rounds: the introduction round, the long-run speech round, and the follow-up round. Throughout the test, the examiner will evaluate the candidate’s pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar.

• IELTS Speaking part 1: This is an introduction round, where you will be explaining yourself to the examiner. The examiner may be asking you a few questions about your personal experience. 
• IELTS Speaking part 2: The second round requires a short individual talk on a given topic (cue card or candidate task card). This is a long-run speech round, where you will be speaking for 2-3 minutes about the topic mentioned in the cue card. Before speaking you will be given a minute for preparation. 
• IELTS Speaking part 3: The third round, the Follow-up round has a discussion related to the candidate task card topic. You will be interacting with the examiner about your opinion discussed in part 2. This section will be taking place for 3-4 minutes.