IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Oct 25th 2005, 9:32 pm
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IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
I read somewhere that;
While IELTS result is valid for 12 months if you must submit result that is no older than 6 months.
Is that true?
While IELTS result is valid for 12 months if you must submit result that is no older than 6 months.
Is that true?
Oct 25th 2005, 9:35 pm
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by CKramer
I read somewhere that;
While IELTS result is valid for 12 months if you must submit result that is no older than 6 months.
Is that true?
While IELTS result is valid for 12 months if you must submit result that is no older than 6 months.
Is that true?
I am not sure, I do think there is a validity period.
Actually, hubby sits his on 12 november.
I have told him, no pressure like but if he could get a band score of 8, that would be nice.
How did you find the test?
Oct 25th 2005, 9:50 pm
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by Professional Princess
How did you find the test?
Listening tests 40% your knowledge and 60% your attention and concentration.
Reading is 60% knowledge, 30% concentration
Writing is 80% knowledge and 20% your writing talent
Speaking result was surprising. I have great vocabulary and speak freely like in my native language, without errors.
But I got only 6 in Speaking because of pronunciation and accent!
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Oct 25th 2005, 9:53 pm
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by CKramer
I have average 6. English is not my native language.
Listening tests 40% your knowledge and 60% your attention and concentration.
Reading is 60% knowledge, 30% concentration
Writing is 80% knowledge and 20% your writing talent
Speaking result was surprising. I have great vocabulary and speak freely like in my native language, without errors.
But I got only 6 in Speaking because of pronunciation and accent!
Listening tests 40% your knowledge and 60% your attention and concentration.
Reading is 60% knowledge, 30% concentration
Writing is 80% knowledge and 20% your writing talent
Speaking result was surprising. I have great vocabulary and speak freely like in my native language, without errors.
But I got only 6 in Speaking because of pronunciation and accent!
My husbands speaking, listening and reading are excellent, his spelling and punctuation let him down.
Although he has been working hard and is improving, he is doing an hour every night.
He has a good memory for listening to the CD and repeating it hours later.
So its the writing Im worried about.
What do you need to get the maximum 20 points from DIMIA overall then?
Oct 25th 2005, 10:36 pm
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
A minimum of 6 in each of the four categories. - so 8, 8, 8 and 5.5 is not good enough.
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Originally Posted by Professional Princess
My husbands speaking, listening and reading are excellent, his spelling and punctuation let him down.
Although he has been working hard and is improving, he is doing an hour every night.
He has a good memory for listening to the CD and repeating it hours later.
So its the writing Im worried about.
What do you need to get the maximum 20 points from DIMIA overall then?
Although he has been working hard and is improving, he is doing an hour every night.
He has a good memory for listening to the CD and repeating it hours later.
So its the writing Im worried about.
What do you need to get the maximum 20 points from DIMIA overall then?
Oct 25th 2005, 10:54 pm
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by Professional Princess
So its the writing Im worried about.
Oct 25th 2005, 10:55 pm
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by welshtony
A minimum of 6 in each of the four categories. - so 8, 8, 8 and 5.5 is not good enough.
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Oct 26th 2005, 5:19 am
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by CKramer
The leson I learned from writing test -don't use draft. There is no enough time to transfer it to examination list later. Write to exam paper form the beginning.
As Xris tells IELTS validation is 2 years from the exam date. Following the booklet6 , you may get 20 with a score like : 6-6-6-6 , and got 15 with 9-9-9-5.5 ! , so as you can see if you think that 15 suffice to get the passmark OK..go ahead...they would let you only one band below 6!
Regarding this exam as far as I know , the result may vary from centerA to centerB considerably and as I heared some guys tried to find easier centers(!)based on :
1- better quality of vocie (depends on exam hall)
2- better and fair speaking-reading examiner
just for your information 5 years ago when I took the exam for the first time with a mediocare speaking presentation(but very good accent) I got 7, yet after 4 years of living with English speaking people and doing anything including job , study ... in Enligsh ,I tried again and got 7 in speaking!!!! , I promise you the latter examiner who was not an English native speaker, could not understand some parts of my talks!!!!(this was another center, same country).
in fact I got problem with reading that time...
Just as a final experience that might work,NEVER ask the center for something like express result , I and other 3 guys believed that if we did not want to get it sooner we would get much better score! , this was a real comparison between us and others that we knew their level of English at the same exam, though I am not pretty sure that was they do with your exam paper when they are gonna announce the result sooner...
Oct 29th 2005, 10:38 pm
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by CKramer
I read somewhere that;
While IELTS result is valid for 12 months if you must submit result that is no older than 6 months.
Is that true?
While IELTS result is valid for 12 months if you must submit result that is no older than 6 months.
Is that true?
A minimum of 6 is required in all bands and one can easily score them with a little of concentration at the time of exam.
Oct 30th 2005, 5:35 am
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Hi friends ,
IELTS is valid for 2 years:
http://www.metafaq.com/action/answer...092EAH6IOQONC8
Also you may check the relevant booklet of 2005 for more information.
In addition , be reminded that IELTS writing module is going to be changed by JAN 2006, as far as I checked gonna more similar to TOEFL in task2 .
Good Luck
IELTS is valid for 2 years:
http://www.metafaq.com/action/answer...092EAH6IOQONC8
Also you may check the relevant booklet of 2005 for more information.
In addition , be reminded that IELTS writing module is going to be changed by JAN 2006, as far as I checked gonna more similar to TOEFL in task2 .
Good Luck
Oct 30th 2005, 9:24 am
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by Barbitana
Hi friends ,
IELTS is valid for 2 years:
http://www.metafaq.com/action/answer...092EAH6IOQONC8
Also you may check the relevant booklet of 2005 for more information.
In addition , be reminded that IELTS writing module is going to be changed by JAN 2006, as far as I checked gonna more similar to TOEFL in task2 .
Good Luck
IELTS is valid for 2 years:
http://www.metafaq.com/action/answer...092EAH6IOQONC8
Also you may check the relevant booklet of 2005 for more information.
In addition , be reminded that IELTS writing module is going to be changed by JAN 2006, as far as I checked gonna more similar to TOEFL in task2 .
Good Luck
The DIMIA standard is not to accept IELTS scores more than one year old, even though IELTS itself regards the tests as valid for two years. DIMIA Case Officers will sometimes decide that a re-test is not necessary, if you've previously reached an acceptable level although your test is more than a year old.
Cheers,
George Lombard
www.austimmigration.com.au
Oct 30th 2005, 9:30 am
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by George Lombard
The DIMIA standard is not to accept IELTS scores more than one year old, even though IELTS itself regards the tests as valid for two years. DIMIA Case Officers will sometimes decide that a re-test is not necessary, if you've previously reached an acceptable level although your test is more than a year old.
Cheers,
George Lombard
www.austimmigration.com.au
Oct 30th 2005, 9:48 am
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Re: IELTS expires in 6 or 12 months?
Originally Posted by George Lombard
Hi Everyone,
The DIMIA standard is not to accept IELTS scores more than one year old, even though IELTS itself regards the tests as valid for two years. DIMIA Case Officers will sometimes decide that a re-test is not necessary, if you've previously reached an acceptable level although your test is more than a year old.
Cheers,
George Lombard
www.austimmigration.com.au
The DIMIA standard is not to accept IELTS scores more than one year old, even though IELTS itself regards the tests as valid for two years. DIMIA Case Officers will sometimes decide that a re-test is not necessary, if you've previously reached an acceptable level although your test is more than a year old.
Cheers,
George Lombard
www.austimmigration.com.au
I have an IELTS results dated May 2004 and I am gonna apply next week , so you suggest try it or redoing ?
Thanks for any comment.
