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IELTS prep guides, task strategies and band scores explained.

IELTS difficulty comes from four separate pressures, one per section, not one hard topic. Listening plays its single recording onc...

An IELTS percentile shows what share of test takers scored at or below a given band. IELTS does not publish one global percentile-...

There is no universal good IELTS score. The band you need depends on who is asking, since IELTS sets no pass mark and each univers...

IELTS Writing Task 2 is an essay of at least 250 words, and IELTS recommends no more than 40 minutes for it inside the 60-minute W...

Give IELTS three months when your date allows it, one month when it does not. IDP recommends 2 to 4 weeks only if you are near you...

Your Overall Band Score is the average of your four section bands, rounded to the nearest whole or half band.Scale: 0 to 9, in who...

IELTS takes 2 hours 45 minutes and covers four skills.Listening: about 30 minutes, 40 questions in 4 partsReading: 60 minutes, 40...

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