How the IELTS test is produced - Listened him Carefully.

In the audio clip above, you will hear a teacher on an IELTS course telling his students about how the IELTS tests are prepared.

In the notes below, some words are missing. As you listen to the teacher, work out what the missing words are.

Try writing your answers down on a piece of paper.

Example
IELTS = International English Language Testing (0) ……………… (System)

How the IELTS test is prepared?

There are three owners of IELTS:

the British Council

an education organisation called (1) ………………

Cambridge English Language Assessment

Writers

Tests are written by teams of writers in countries including the UK and (2) ………………

It is important that the writers’ texts are the right (3) ………………

Pre-editing meetings 

The assessment manager and ‘the (4)………………’, the team leader, attend the meeting and agree on the (5) ……………… for the writer.

Some tasks are (6) ……………… at this meeting.

Editing meetings

Purposes:

to prepare the tests

to provide (7) ……………… for the writers

Pre-testing

Groups of students take a pre-test (useful exam practice); this data is used to see how (8) ……………… the test is.

Banking of material

Cambridge English Language Assessment developed their own (9) ……………… to store details about the questions.

The process of matching a student’s score with the right IELTS band (up to 9) is called (10) ……………… fixing.