Listening

4 parts approximately 30 minutes + 10 to transfer your answers to the answer sheet

Part 1 a social or transactional conversation between 2 speakers 10 questions

Part 2 monologue on social needs, 1 speaker 10 questions

Part 3 conversion related to training or educational context 2 to 4 speakers 10 questions

Part 4 monologue, a talk or lecture on a general interest topic 1 speaker 10 questions

Question types listening

1. Multiple choice

2. Matching

3. Labeling a map, plan or diagram

4. Sentence completion

5. Short-answer question

6. Form, note, table, flow-chart or summary completion

Marks

1 point per correct answer

Tip! Grammar and spelling are important you will lose you a point if the grammar or spelling of the answer is wrong

Scoring

General reading

• 60 minutes
• 3 parts roughly 20 minutes per part

Part 1: Two, three or several short texts on Social survival 

Relevant to basic linguistic survival in English mostly about retrieving and providing general factual information. For example, notices, advertisements and timetables.

Part 2: Two texts on Workplace survival

A workplace context. For example, job descriptions, contracts and staff development and training materials.

Part 3: One long text on General reading

More extended text with more complex structure. Descriptive and instructive rather than argumentative, academic texts, relevant to the wide range people. For example, newspapers, magazines and fictional and non-fictional book extracts.

Question types

1. Multiple choice
2. Identifying information
3. Identifying writers claim or opinion
4. Short-answer questions
5. Sentence completion
6. Classification
7. Matching headings, matching information, matching sentence endings
8. Completing notes, sentences, tables, diagram, flowchart or a summary
9. Matching lists, phrases  

Marks

1 point per correct answer

Tip! grammar and spelling are important you will lose a point if the grammar or spelling of the answer is wrong.

Marks

General writing

• 60 minutes
• 2 parts

Task 1

20 minutes
150 word response to a situation. For example, a letter requesting information, explaining a situation, complaining…

Task 2

40 minutes
250 words academic essay responding to a problem or giving your opinion

Marks

1 to 9 on 4 assessment criteria:

1. Task achievement
2. Cohesion and coherence
3. Lexical resources
4. Grammatical Accuracy and Range

Band descriptors overview TASK 1 and TASK 2

Speaking

• 11 to 14 minutes
• Speaking is most of the time on a different date before the written component of the test
• 3 parts

Part 1

Introduction and familiar discussion 4-5 minutes

Part 2

Long turn 3-4 minutes prep 1 minute and talk for 2 minutes on a topic written down on a cue card. Answer 1 or 2 follow up questions

Part 3

Topic discussion: discuss in greater depth more general and abstract questions related to the topic of part 2 (long turn) 4-5 minutes

Marks

1 to 9 on 4 assessment criteria:

1. Fluency
2. Lexical range
3. Accuracy
4. Pronunciation

Band descriptors overview Speaking