Tips from Divine

IELTS Test Tips & Advice On the day

Below are some tips for the day of your IELTS exam. These tips are to guide you before your IELTS test and also during your test. These tips are for both GT and Academic tests.
On this page, you will find:
1. Tips for “on the day” of your test
2. Last Minute Listening Tips
3. Last Minute Reading Tips
4. Last Minute Writing Tips
5. Last Minute Speaking Tips
It is important that everyone reads this page before the test day and also on the morning of the test day. Good luck ????

1) On the Day IELTS Exam Tips:

Be prepared for your IELTS exam by making sure you know exactly what will happen in the day of your test. Check all tips and rules below.

1. Sleep & Eat Well

• The IELTS test is long. It takes 2 hours and 40 mins to do the listening, reading and writing test. There is no break between the tests. Make sure you are well rested and have eaten in order to keep your concentration during your test.

• Wear comfortable clothing. You are not marked on your appearance for any part of the test. So, wear something that you are comfortable in and that gives you confidence.
• The test room might be cold in the aircon is on, so take an extra layer of clothing with you or if you are worried it might get hot, wear layers you can take off.

• You can take a drink into the exam room as long as it is in a transparent bottle.

• Make sure you know how long it takes to get to your IELTS test centre and exactly where your test will be held. Don’t be late or you won’t be allowed to enter the exam room. You will need to check in so make sure you arrive with plenty of time to spare.

• The listening, reading and writing tests take 2 hours and 40 mins. There is no break so make sure you go to the toilet before you enter the exam room. If you need the toilet during the test, put your hand up and the invigilator will let you go. But you will lose valuable time by doing this and it could affect your score.

• You will not be allowed to take your phone or any other electronic items into the test room.

• You should take at least two pencils and one pen – just in case one of them stops working. You should also take an eraser as well. You can’t take a dictionary or extra paper into the test room. For your speaking test, you can take nothing into the room except your Indian Passport.

• Don’t forget to take original Passport – as Aadhaar, Voter ID, Driving Licence are not considered as eligible ID proof for your IELTS Exam. The Passport you take with you should match the details on your registration form.

• Listen carefully to all instructions given before your test starts.

• There will be a clock on the exam room. You cannot take a watch (no matter its Analog or Digital or Smart watch) into your test. Make sure you know where it is before your test starts so you can keep checking it in your reading and writing test. You can’t take your watch into the exam room.

• If you have any form is disability that will affect your test, you must disclose us prior filling the Exam registration Form & you must speak the same to the test centre well before your test date.

• Make sure you go into your test with a clear aim and an understanding of the techniques you need to use. Be calm and confident at all time.

• Don’t cheat
• This is an international test and cheating or copying is not allowed.
• Don’t talk with other test takers during exam.
• No dictionary
• You are not allowed to use any form of learning aid in your test.
• Don’t take the test paper home
• You are not allowed to take any part of the question paper home with you.
• Don’t continue writing after the invigilator tells you to stop. If you continue writing even one word or one sentence, you could have your whole test invalidated. In the computer-based test, you won’t have the chance to continue writing as the screen with shut down at the precise time the test finishes.