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    IELTS Test Format and Scoring Guides

    How the test is laid out, how every band is worked out, and what changed when IELTS moved to computer.

    Mock tests for all four papers
    A brass balance scale on a pale wooden desk, perfectly level, beside a small stack of blank index cards and a pencil

    The test and scores

    How IELTS Band Scores Are Calculated, Paper by Paper

    The exact rounding rule for the overall band, the raw-score tables for Listening and Reading, and how Writing and Speaking criteria become a band.

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    A quiet test centre booth: a computer monitor with a dark screen, a keyboard, a mouse and over-ear headphones on a white desk between two pale partitions

    The test and scores

    IELTS on Computer: What Changes and How to Practise for It

    IELTS is now taken on computer almost everywhere. What the screen gives you, what changes in each paper, results in 1–2 days, and how to practise for it.

    10 min read

    Four objects in a neat row on a pale desk, seen from above: over-ear headphones, an open book, a fountain pen on a sheet of blank lined paper and a small desk microphone

    The test and scores

    IELTS Test Format: Every Paper, Part and Minute

    The four IELTS papers part by part: timings, question counts and types, Academic and General Training compared, computer delivery and results.

    10 min read