Orbit conducts IELTS preparation courses for 30 hours in a period of six weeks with an hour per day from Monday to Friday. The students have an unlimited access to the Self Access Center to practice the skills. Every Sunday, the faculty administers full tests and qualified examiners assess the test papers before they are returned. Students’ essays are provided with teachers’ feedback for improvement. The final IELTS test is taken at the British Council or its authorized test centers. Test dates are announced in advance and therefore students need to register for their test as per the availability of the date at the British Council. For further detail about the test dates, students can also visit the website www.britishcouncil.org/ Nepal.
Course Structure
Students who prepare for IELTS with us follow a systematic schedule of lectures and practice sections designed to cover all areas of the test. Our video lectures introduce the key techniques for effective test preparation, and our expert tutors are available to explain particular problem areas and to solve difficulties encountered in class work and homework. Our program is structured yet flexible: Students proceed through the course at their own pace. The course is designed to complete in 6 weeks with 30 hours taught classes, but we can arrange an accelerated or an extended program depending your individual needs through Crash Course Model.
Test Structure
Listening and Speaking are the same in both general training and academic versions of the exam. However, candidates taking the academic module face more complex assignments in IELTS Reading and Writing section.
Listening is comprised of four parts of increasing difficulty. Each part is a short dialogue (or monologue) that is followed by a set of questions. It is important that you prepare well for the section and know enough IELTS Listening tips and tricks as each text is played only once. You will have 40 minutes to complete the task.
In the Reading Test, candidates are presented with three texts and 40 questions (13-14 for each text). If you had a look through our IELTS Reading tips in the general training module texts tend to be shorter and there might be as many as five. Candidates are given 60 minutes to read all the texts and fill in the answer sheet.
Writing is comprised of 2 tasks: in the academic module candidates IELTS Writing task1 requires to describe a graph, diagram or chart, and then answer to an argument. Those taking the general training version have an IELTS Writing task to write a letter and a short essay. Writing in IELTS essays requires a lot of practice. Like in Reading, students have 60 minutes to finish the section.