Guides

IELTS guides

The questions people actually ask about the computer-delivered test, answered at the top of each page and then properly. Every number links to the organisation that publishes it, with the date it was checked — and where nobody official has published an answer, the guide says so instead of inventing one.

• Choosing a formatIELTS on computer vs on paperThe same test, two rooms. What actually changes, what does not, and the one difference that catches people out.
• On the dayComputer-delivered IELTS tipsFourteen things about the screen itself. Not advice about English — advice about the thing between you and the marks.
• A third optionIELTS on computer with Writing on PaperType Listening and Reading, handwrite the essay. Who it is for, where it exists, and the one group it is not available to.
• IndiaIELTS in India is on computer nowPaper is gone, so the question is no longer which format — it is what the screen changes, and what it gives you back.
• CanadaIELTS for Express Entry: what CLB 9 needsFour IELTS scores, and the arithmetic of why the step from CLB 7 to CLB 9 is worth up to 106 points.
• ListeningIELTS Listening spelling: the words people get wrongFive reasons a word goes wrong, and the forty or so words that keep proving it.
• UK nursingIELTS for nurses: what the NMC asks forAcademic, 7.0 in three skills and 6.5 in Writing — and the two-sitting rule that saves a lot of people a lot of money.