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📋 IELTS Academic Exam Structure

Total test time: 2 hours 45 minutes. Listening, Reading, and Writing are taken on the same day with no breaks between them.

SectionTimeQuestionsDetails
🎧 Listening~30 min (+10 min transfer)404 recordings (2 monologues, 2 conversations) in varying accents. Played only once.
📖 Reading60 minutes403 long academic passages from books, journals, and newspapers.
✍️ Writing60 minutes2 tasksTask 1: Describe a graph/chart (150 words)

Task 2: Essay (250 words). Worth 2x Task 1.
🗣️ Speaking11-14 min3 partsFace-to-face with a trained examiner.

Part 1: Intro & general questions
Part 2: Cue card long turn
Part 3: Abstract discussion
⚠️ Critical Notes
No breaks between Listening, Reading, Writing: These three sections run consecutively.
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Face-to-face Speaking: Conducted with a real examiner, not a computer.
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Task 2 is worth double: The essay contributes twice as much as Task 1 to your Writing band score.
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