IELTS Academic Coaching in Bharuch

Your overall reading skill is tested in the IELTS academic reading test. Here you will be reading the passages taken from books, publications, journals, and articles from academic background and answering the questions. You have to read, understand the main idea, and answer the question type within the stipulated time.

Format: In the reading section, you will have three sections. Each section comprises a passage followed by questions. You have to read the passage and answer the question based on the passage. The passages will be of factual or descriptive format thus charts, diagrams, etc are also used.

Skills assessed:

Task duration: The IELTS academic reading test duration is 60 minutes.

Number of questions: There are 40 questions in the IELTS academic reading section.

Task types: There are 14 question types in the IELTS academic reading section. They are as follows,
1. Matching headings
2. Locating information
3. Summary completion
4. Matching sentence endings
5. Diagram labelling
6. Flowchart completion
7. Notes completion
8. Multiple choice questions
9. True false not given questions
10. Yes no not given questions
11. Short answer questions
12. Sentence completion
13. Matching features
14. Table completion

Total marks: The total marks for this action will be 40. Each question carries one mark.

Marking criteria: Band score 1-9 for this section will be given based on the number of correct answers given. Here your basic language understanding, way to interpret the information from the passage and your vocabulary are analysed from your answers. To know more about this section, visit the IELTS academic reading test.

In the IELTS academic listening test, you will be listening to audio clips of conversations or speech from the native speakers to answer the given questions. The recordings can be heard only once and the answer will be given in the progressive order. You will be hearing different voices and native accents in the recordings.

Format: The IELTS academic listening test consists of 4 sections, to answer the question series.
1. In recording 1, you will be listening to the conversation between two people about any common topic.
2. In recording 2, a monologue on a social context will be played.
3. In recording 3, the discussion between two or more people will be given. The topic will be on academic background.
4. The recording 4 will be a monologue on any academic topic by a native speaker.

Skills assessed: The following skills will be assessed in the listening test,

Task duration: The IELTS Academic Listening test lasts 30 minutes. For the paper-based test, an additional 10 minutes is provided to transfer answers to the answer sheet. In the computer-delivered test, you are given 2 minutes to review your answers.

Number of questions: 40 questions will be asked in the IELTS academic listening section.

Task types: The different types of questions given in the IELTS academic listening section will include
1. Matching
2. Table completion
3. Note completion
4. Multiple choice questions
5. Sentence completion
6. Short answer questions
7. Summary completion
8. Flowchart completion
9. plan/ diagram labelling
10. Form completion

Total marks: Each question will be scored 1 mark and a total 40 marks will be awarded for this section. Based on your performance, the score will be converted to 1-9 band score.

Marking criteria: The marking system is based on the number of correct answers given. Your scores will be given in whole or half bands.

Your speaking skill will be assessed in the IELTS academic speaking test. Here you will be interacting with the certified examiner to introduce yourself and have a discussion on a common topic. This test is conducted to check how well you can understand and respond to the native speaker.

Format: The IELTS academic speaking test is conducted in 3 rounds.
1. In the first round, you will be introducing yourself to the examiner. Here you can explain about your achievements, your reasons to travel abroad etc.
2. In the second round, the examiner will be giving you a cue card topic to talk about. You will have one minute to prepare and to take notes. Then you have to speak for 2 minutes portraying your opinion about the topic uninterrupted.
3. The third round will be a discussion round, where you are required to have a short discussion with the examiner about the topic you have spoken about in the second round.

Skills assessed:

Task duration: The IELTS academic speaking test is conducted for 11-14 minutes. Here the first 4-5 minutes will be spent in the introduction round, followed by 2-4 minutes in the topic speech. The last 4-5 minutes will be used for discussion

Number of questions: Here the rounds are considered as questions and thus there will be 3 parts in this section.

Task types: The 3 types of tasks in the IELTS academic speaking section will be
1. Introduction
2. Individual speech or cue card or long turn speaking
3. Discussion

Total marks: In this section you will be marked between the band scores 1-9 based on your performance.

Marking criteria: The speaking test is marked based on the evaluation done during your speaking section. The criterias noted are fluency, coherence, legibility, pronunciation, grammar, and lexical resources. The session will be recorded.

In the writing task you will be used to check your writing ability through two tasks. You must be careful in understanding the given question and give the required response in your own words. You will be describing a situation or explaining a process or sharing your view on a particular topic.

Format: The writing module consists of two tasks.
1. Task 1: You will write a report of at least 150 words, with a recommended time of 20 minutes. You will be presented with a visual representation such as a graph, chart, table, map, or process, and you will be required to summarize, describe, and compare the key information.
2. Task 2: You will be asked to write your opinion or point of view on a given argument or statement. The essay must be at least 250 words, with a recommended time of 40 minutes. This task carries more weight and contributes a higher score compared to Task 1.

Skills assessed:

Task duration: The IELTS academic writing task will be extended for 1 hour. The recommended time distribution is 20 minutes for writing task 1 and 40 minutes for writing task 2.

Number of questions: The total number of questions in this section is 2

Task types: There are only two types of tasks in the IELTS academic writing test. They are
• 150 words writing task
• 250 words writing task

Total marks: The scores of the writing section will be given as band scores. The scores differ between 1-9 according to your writing skills

Marking criteria: The overall assessment for this section will be given based on your response accuracy, structure of your essay, vocabulary, grammar and content quality. As the second essay is bigger than the first essay, more weightage will be given for the second one. The first step in your preparation is knowing about the IELTS academic test format. You can schedule your preparation plan based on the format so that you will be able to put equal focus on all the topics.