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The spirit of IELTS’s General examination package poses questions that focus on routine, day-to-
day functions in the workplace and social settings. Examples of these tasks include writing a letter
to a neighbor (i.e. General writing test) and reading and comprehending content from
newspapers such as job advertisements (i.e. General reading test).
The intent of the IELTS Academic test centers on typical scenarios that confront post-secondary
education students and scholars such as academic researchers. The Academic test requires
candidates to descriptively analyze one or more diagrams, models or images for writing task 1.
Test-takers are requested to argue the point about their opinion that concerns a topic from a
range of sub-disciplines such as moral philosophy and political sociology for writing task 2. The
academic reading section requires candidates to analyze and interpret textual content and
images/diagrams from scholarly sources such as peer-reviewed journal articles and research
papers.
1.3 High-stakes
IELTS is a ‘high-stakes’ global English language test. IELTS acknowledge this fact in multiple
sources such as their marketing brochures and website content. For example, I refer to the
extract shown in Figure 2, overleaf, downloaded from IELTS’s official website dated 17 November
2017.