The listening portion has four parts with ... director of partnerships and communications for IELTS USA. The writing test has two tasks: one that requires summarization or explaining data shown ...

Differences include: the listening is only heard once in IELTS, there is no choice in the writing tasks and the speaking test is not quite as structured as in FCE or CAE and is conducted on a one ...

Hong Kong’s 2018 IELTS Academic Test candidates hit their highest average score in English reading, listening and oral since 2013, but their performance in the writing task has dropped to a new ...