IELTS General Training case studies
IELTS General Training · Put your knowledge to work in context.
IELTS General Training is one of the test types offered within the IELTS family, and it is delivered at a test centre. According to the official IELTS site, you choose it if you wish to migrate to an English-speaking country such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the UK, or if you wish to train or study at below degree level. The IELTS General Training case studies are 5 cases and about 4,235 words.
1Section 1 form completion: the three marks Priya lost without mishearing a word
Priya is preparing for IELTS Listening with a Section 1 practice: a telephone enquiry about a guided bicycle tour. The rubric says NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER .
789 words, about 4 min2True / False / Not Given: two statements, one wrong rule
A General Training candidate is working on a Section 3 passage about a town's shared-bicycle scheme. The council states that its principal purpose was to improve residents' fitness rather than to reduce traffic, and that congestion was already falling before the bikes appeared.
780 words, about 4 min3Task 1 letter: the tone is wrong in the first line and the wrong line at the end
Marcus needs Band 7 in Writing; his last two reports read Task Achievement 7, Coherence and Cohesion 6.5, with a comment that his letters are "inconsistent in register". His practice prompt is: You recently hired a meeting room at a hotel for a one-day training event.
836 words, about 4 min4Task 2 "discuss both views": 420 words that answer one and a half questions
Yuki has 40 minutes for Task 2. The prompt: Some people believe employers should be legally required to give every employee at least four weeks of paid holiday a year.
915 words, about 5 min5Speaking: 55 seconds in Part 2 and a statistic nobody asked for
In a mock Speaking test, Ahmed is asked in Part 1 "Where do you live?" and answers "In an apartment." Asked "Do you prefer to study in the morning or the evening?", he says "Morning." In Part 2 he is given one minute to prepare notes on: Describe a time you had to wait a long time for something. You should say what you were waiting for, where you were, how long you waited, and explain how you felt about it.
915 words, about 5 min