As one of the pioneers of four skills English language testing 30 years ago, IELTS continues to set the standard for English language testing today. Governments in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom use IELTS to process immigration applications.

You’ll be assessed on the following elements:

IELTS Academic - measures whether your level of English language proficiency is suitable for an academic environment. It reflects aspects of academic language and evaluates whether you’re ready to begin training or studying.

IELTS is a language proficiency test which is given by those candidates who wish to study in an English speaking country and aim to gain global exposure. The medium of teaching in a majority of the colleges, universities and educational institutions in the major English speaking countries is English language only. So, the candidates should have a basic understanding of the language in order to pursue their higher studies successfully. 

Practice as much as you can. In this part of the test, the speed of the person who speaks increases gradually and it is important to concentrate along with the speaker.

This is maybe the hardest part in the test.Get up your reading speed. You may be able to get tips from books and articles written on how to improve reading speed.

This depends a lot on your own vocabulary and basic grammar.Write correct and simple sentences is just not enough. Try to use different word if you have use the same word over and over.Punctuation is very important in achieving the score you hope to. Before attempting writing exercises it is better to refresh you basic knowledge in things like punctuation.

Realize that this has lot to do with your own ability to speak English. If you are not able to clearly speak, the best thing is to listen to day-to-day English conversations. You may be able to listen to radio, TV or may be to read dialogues written in English.