As its name indicates (International English Language Testing System), its objective is to evaluate your level of international English, without any preference for British or American English. There are two versions, the General Training and the Academic.
The first is oriented to academic English while the second is focused on the professional world. The structure is basically the same in both, with adaptations to each field in the reading and writing sections.
More than 1.7 million people take the IELTS exams in Buenos Aires and around the world, and more than 7,000 universities, government bodies and professional organizations accept their results.
The Academic, which is for those who apply to a university or a job, and the General Training, which is for immigration.
The IELTS exam is scored in ranges that go from 0 to 9, the latter being, for example, the one that recognizes a perfect command of English, or 5 —Level B2 (First Certificate) -, that is, that of someone who falls into many errors but still can be communicated. That is why it is defined by details, by subtleties, by essential knowledge that could easily lower your grade if you do not have a preparation up to the challenge.
The IELTS test in Argentina lasts approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes of pure adrenaline. There you will face many challenges, by the way, exciting, and also some carefully hidden «traps» whose objective is to verify your real level of knowledge. Come to prepare your IELTS test with us!
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