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Many people are confused to great extent whether to choose IELTS Academic or IELTS General Training. Choosing the type of test completely depends on your intention where to use your test score. Basically, IELTS test is categorized into two parts such as IELTS Academic and IELTS general where IELTS Academic has been developed for those aspirants who have a desire to continue their further education in English speaking countries whereas IELTS general is taken by those individuals who have a wish to stay and work in overseas. This test mainly focuses on evaluating an individual’s language proficiency, sense of confidence and comfort to speak English language on daily basis to share your ideas especially in those nations where English is the native language.

Now, let’s dive into the differences in terms of content between IELTS Academic and IELTS General:

IELTS Writing: Here, the test taker has to do two tasks i.e. Writing Task 1 and Writing Task 2.IELTS writing is segregated into IELTS Academic Writing and IELTS General Writing.

Academic Writing: For the task 1, you are given a pictorial representation such as line graph, bar graph, pie chart, table, process chart or map. You are told to analyze the task and interpret in your own words taking care of IELTS Writing parameters. On the other hand, in the task 2, you are provided an essay to write just like you must have written many essays during your school and college days. Both tasks are completely formal.

General Writing: Writing task 1 demands to write a letter based on a given situation on the piece of page. The nature of letter could be formal, semiformal or informal. IELTS writing task 2is same for both general and academic.

IELTS Reading: In IELTS academy reading you will be given 3 long paragraphs contain text from newspapers, magazines or books. By skimming and scanning paragraphs you will find out all the questions in specified time. On the paradoxical side, IELTS general training reading comes with 5 or 6 varying length sections unlike IELTS academic reading. Apart from this, here the text comes from advertisements and brochures instead of magazines and newspapers, passages will be based on everyday situation.

IELTS Speaking and Listening: There is no difference between IELTS speaking and listening module either you have to go for IELTS academic or general.

Now, let’s explore the difference between IELTS academic and IELTS general training in band score:

On the IELTS academic test, band score 5 is of 15,6 is of 23,7 is of 30 and 8 is of 35 correct answers out of 40. On contrary, IELTS general training test will give you 4 band score for 15, 5 band score for 23, 6 band score for 30 and 7 band score for 34 correct answers. The difference is created between the band score of IELTS academic and IELTS general because academic reading passages are more complex due to the excess use of vocabulary whereas very difficult words can hardly been seen in IELTS general training reading passages.

Hopefully, whether you are appearing for IELTS academic test or IELTS general training test, practice is the key with what you can crack your exam easily and make yourself prepared for the further life in overseas. For more related information, feel free to contact Abroad Gateway, Sector 42c, Chandigarh, as they are the best consultant for IELTS, PTE, TOEFL, DUOLINGO test and Immigration.