IELTS Test Format

No. of
Skill Time Test format
questions

- multiple choice
30 m
- matching plan/map/diagram labelling
Listening (+ 10 m transfer 40
- form/note/table/flow-chart/summary completion
time)
- sentence completion

- multiple choice
- identifying information
- identifying the writer’s views/claims
- matching information, headings, features, sentence endings
- sentence completion
Reading 60 m 40 - summary completion
- note completion
- table completion
- flow-chart completion
- diagram label completion
- short-answer questions

Fact description: graphs, charts, tables, diagram, process

Writing 60 m 2

Essay

Part 1 - Introduction and interview (4–5 minutes)

Speaking 11–14 m 3 parts Part 2 – Long turn (1 m preparation - 2 m speaking)
Part 3 – Discussion (4–5 minutes)
Task 1 multiple choice

Task 2 Matching
Task 3 Plan, map, diagram labelling
Task 4 Form, note, table, flow-chart, summary completion
Sentence completion
Task 5
‘NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER’
Task 6 Short-answer questions
Task 1 Multiple choice
Task 2 Identifying information
Task 3 Identifying writer’s views/claims
Task 4 Matching information
Task 5 Matching headings
Task 6 Matching features
Task 7 Matching sentence endings
Task 8 Sentence completion
Task 9 Summary, note, table, flow-chart completion
Task 10 Diagram label completion
Task 11 Short-answer questions
 Note

e’ or ‘not given’
or ‘not given’

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E THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage’, ‘ONE WORD ONLY’ or ‘NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS’
E THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage’, ‘ONE WORD ONLY’ or ‘NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS’
E THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage’, ‘ONE WORD ONLY’ or ‘NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS’
E THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage’, ‘ONE WORD ONLY’ or ‘NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS’
evement: appropriately, accurately and relevantly the response fulfils the requirement (150 words)
e and cohesion: clarity and fluency
source: range of vocabulary used and its accuracy and appropriacy
cal range and accuracy: accurate use of grammar
onse: appropriately, accurately and relevantly the response fulfils the requirement (250 words)
e and cohesion: clarity and fluency
source: range of vocabulary used and its accuracy and appropriacy
cal range and accuracy: accurate use of grammar