What is the difference between General Training IELTS and Academic IELTS?
Well the IELTS exam has two formats: ACADEMIC and GENERAL ACADEMIC form is mainly for students trying to study abroad in an English language country GENERAL is for ordinarily people which try to immigrate to English language speaking countries. It has a score ranging from 0 to 9 with 9 been the best and 0 given when you are absent at the test day. It’s score is in full or half I mean 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 … 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9 It has 4 sections: listening, reading, writing and speaking. In the first 2 you could get half scores but in the last 2 you only get full scores. The overall score is the average of the 4 marks you get and is rounded to the bigger half or full. The differents between them is in the REDING and the WRITING section. which in the GENERAL format you are tested on ordinarly things you might accoure to during living in an english language speaking country like you might have a reading whith a subject on how to cook a sertian food or in the WRITING section they might ask you to wr