Worried about IELTS Speaking Introduction Questions? Here’re the Things to Know about IELTS Exam Questions

IELTS examination is conducted by IDP and British Council. IDP is the organization that introduced the computer-based IELTS examination in India. For a candidate who is planning to pursue her/her studies or for work purposes, he/she needs to give the IELTS examination and submit the score to get the entry. You have to research about what is the minimum score asked for IELTS by the country that you are moving to and the university that you will be enrolled in. After knowing about this you will require to score equal to or above the minimum band score specified. To achieve this you need to make your foundation strong by knowing the Introduction questions for IELT, speaking questions for IELTS, and general questions for IELTS

Accordingly, you can learn smart techniques to speed up yourself and enhance your accuracy of the answer.

Introduction Questions for IELTS

The IELTS exam is divided into 4 sections: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. The total duration given to complete the examination is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Speaking examination is taken separately as it is a face-to-face interview taken by the examiner. Introduction question in IELTS speaking section can be about yourself, where you can be asked question on:-

#Work

#Home

#Childhood

#Study

#Hometown

#Lifestyle

#Hobbies

#Trending topic

#Family

#Friends

It depends solely on the examiner what he/ she wants to ask you first. So when you are giving answers to the  Introduction questions for IELTS, make sure that you speak well and don’t use fillers like Umm, and, So, ahh. Using fillers right in the beginning may portray a bad image in front of the examiner.

General Questions for IELTS

You get different questions in all 4 sections of the IELTS according to the duration of the section allotted to it. So when you start practicing you need to know what are the general questions for IELTS exams and need to start after getting a thorough knowledge of the same. Here, we will take you through each section separately and will acquaint you with the questions asked in each section

 1. Listening Section for IELTS

The IELTS section is for 30 minutes where you will get 4 recordings of native speakers which are followed by the questions which you need to answer in the stipulated time. All 4 recordings will be different and they are based on:-

#Recording 1 is based on a conversation between two people which you will see is set in a social context experienced every day

#Recording 2 is a monologue on a social context experienced every day

#Recording 3 is again a conversation but now the conversation is between 4 people and the setting is the educational or training.

#Recording 4 is a monologue again but it is on the academic subject

 Continued

These recordings are followed by 10 questions each and these questions are designed in such a way that the answers appear in a sequence, synched with the audio which the candidate hears. Recordings that you will hear will contain different accents like New Zealand, American Canadian Australian. You also need to keep in mind that you will be able to hear the recording only once. You also get the 10 minutes transfer time in addition to 30 minutes. You get a variety of questions like MCQs. matching, labelling, form/flow-chart/ table/ summary completion, and sentence completion. Make sure that you practice each type of question to have a better grip on the paper.

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2. Reading Section for IELTS

The IELTS exam is divided into two types one is academic training and other is the general training. Academic training for the candidates who are planning to move abroad to pursue their studies and general training is for those who are going due to reasons other than education. So Reading sections differ a little bit, and there is an academic reading section and there is a general training reading section with a slight change, but the duration remains the same, that is 60 minutes. So we will explain to you both the type in detail.

The reading section is designed in such a way that it assesses your reading skills like:- skimming, reading for gist, reading for detail, reading for the main idea, understanding logical argument, recognizing the writer’s opinion, purpose and attitude. As poor spelling and grammatical errors are penalized in the IELTS examination, you need to put extra care into this while reading it again and again.

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1 Reading Academic test

The academic reading test includes 3 long content which can range from discursive and analytical to descriptive and factual. The content is taken from newspapers, journals, books, and magazines. And these contents are picked while keeping in mind the non-specialist audience that the students are looking forward to pursuing their career abroad. You will get a variety of questions in this sections, and these question types are:-

#MCQs

#Identifying the writer’s view or claim

#MAtching information like headings, features, sentence endings

#Sentence completion

#Flow- chart completion, Diagram label completion

#Short answer questions

You need to practice each question type and learn the smart techniques to solve these questions quickly and with great accuracy.

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 Reading General Training Test

There are three sections where section 1 contains 2 or 3 short texts and section 2 may contain 2 texts, and in section 3 you will get one long text to read. Section 1 contains the text which simply provides general factual information like advertisements, timetables, and notices. The second section is focused on the workplace scenario where you can get the text on staff development, training materials contracts, and job description. Section 3 is the complex where you get a long text that is instructive and not argumentative, like non-fictional book extracts or newspaper magazines.

Speaking Section for IELTS

The speaking section is conducted face to face with the examiner thus it is the toughest and at the same time easier for few candidates who have confidence in their speaking skills and have practiced a lot. So to practice it you need to know about IELTS questions for IELTS speaking. A speaking section has 3 parts: introduction, Topic description, and follow-up questions.

Parts

#First, you need to start with the introduction part on the basis of the question asked to you, generally, the examiner asks about family, studies, hobbies, hometown, and work, etc. Time dedicated to this part is only 4 to 5 minutes.

#Then comes part 2 which is a topic description, where you are given an interesting topic to speak on for 2  minutes and you have one minute to prepare like:- Describe a Water Sport You want to Try in the Future

#Part 3 is the follow-up questions where the examiner asks the candidates few questions on the basis of the topic given. Follow-up questions can be generally related to the topic or can be related to what you specifically said in the description. Time dedicated to this part is 4 to 5 minutes.

Writing Section for IELTS

Similarly, as in the reading section, there are two different papers, one is the writing section for academic training, and the other is for general training. The time given for the writing section is 60 minutes.

1 Writing Academic Training

In this section, the candidate is given 2 tasks to complete. The first task candidate is presented with the chart, diagram, graph, and tables which the candidate has to describe and explain in their own words. You can write about the data given, you can describe the stage of the process and what is the flow of the diagram or its significance of it. In task 2 the candidate will be writing the essay with the point of view, arguments, or challenges. For both sections, you have to use a formal style of writing.

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2. Writing General Training

General training writing question papers contain more formal questions. Task 1 contains situations like writing a letter and task 2 asks the candidate to write an essay on the topic given. But here the topic given would be a formal one different from writing an academic one. As this section is made for people planning to go abroad due to reasons other than education, it is inclined towards a formal approach.

Conclusion

To start preparing, you need to get yourself acquainted with what are the introduction questions, what are the speaking questions, and what are general questions for IELTS. When you answer these questions you can move ahead with learning techniques that will help you increase your speed and help you in getting more accurate answers. Hop[efully, this article was helpful enough to give your preparation the required boost. You can put your comment in the below box and let us know how did you like this piece of information.