IELTS score between 1 and 9 for each part of the test – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. You can score whole (e.g., 5.0, 6.0, 7.0) or half (e.g., 5.5, 6.5, 7.5) bands in each part. Universities often demand an IELTS score of 6 or 7. They may also demand a minimum IELTS score in each of the 4 sections.
IELTS scoring system and band scale
The IELTS scoring system is very unique composed of 9 bands, measured in consistent manner and is internationally acclaimed and understood. The IELTS score ranges from 1 to 9 for each part of the test. The individual result from these four parts will produce an overall band score ... more →
How long does it take to do the IELTS test?
IELTS has four parts – Listening (30 minutes), Reading (60 minutes), Writing (60 minutes) and Speaking (11–14 minutes). The total test time is 2 hours and 45 minutes. The Listening, Reading and Writing tests are done in one sitting.
Is IELTS valid for 3 years now?
The IELTS Test Report Form (TRF) is valid for two years. At present, IELTS score is valid for a three year period for Australian General Skilled Migration (GSM) applications.
Is there any pass or fail in the IELTS exam?
There is no pass or no fail in the IELTS exam. Generally, when you take any test or exam then there can be the possibility of getting passed or failed. But here in this case, you will not get failed but you may be disqualified to continue your higher education in choice of college or university.
Video games are arguably the best technologically-based teaching ______. When playing a video game, you are an active player who drives the ______ and makes decisions that change the ______ of what is going on. Psychologists would say that you are learning behavioral ______.
Video games are ______ driven. The medium itself is ______; we give the valence of good or bad or ______ to it. Unfortunately, the most popular video games are the ones that reward you for doing ______ against others.
Answers – Listening Exercises
Tool
Narrative
Direction
Scripts
Content
Neutral
Destructive
Violence
Audio Transcript
Video games are very interesting, powerful and fairly new area of media to consider. One of the really interesting things from a developmental sense is that they are arguably the best teaching tool we have, the best technologically-based teaching tool we have in the sense that you are not only being exposed to situations and people and concepts the way you are on the television or movies but you are an active player in them. You actively drive the narrative and you make decisions and choices and moves that will then change the direction of what’s going on. What that means, of course, this is a century of virtual reality that you are immersed in an environment with a set of conditions that you are asked by the game play to behave in certain ways. If you do it really well, you get rewarded, you also get more complicated and interesting narratives. If you do it badly, you get punished. So you are inside what psychologists call behavioral scripts. And behavioral script is how we learn anything. It’s how we learn to say please and thank you; it’s how we learn to please our parents and to do well in school. But if you’re in environment where, for example, you are learning how to play soccer well, it will help you learn soccer strategy, it will help you kick a ball, it will help you think about how you play the game. If you’re in game where you’re poaching the war over the power of the weapon and your job is to kill them before they kill you, you will get better at that.
So, it’s really a content driven. With video games, the medium itself is neutral. We gave the valence of good or bad or destructive to it. Unfortunately, the most popular video games even among very young kids are the ones that reward you for doing violence against others.
Practice IELTS listening exercises more and more to improve your listening skills. On the real test, you will hear the recording only once and listening questions get increasingly difficult.
Practising different types of listening questions separately will help you to develop yourself with specific techniques for that kind of questions in the IELTS listening test.
Related IELTS Resources
Take a practice test to find out what is your current weakness in terms of IELTS scale and allow more time to improve your weak spots. The following IELTS resources will help you to develop your skills faster:
