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Speaking

77 – 93 Minutes
40 Questions

Writing

77 – 93 Minutes
4 Questions

 

Reading

32 – 41 Minutes
16 Questions

Listening

45 – 57 Minutes
20 Questions

The Number of Questions do vary, even by types of them, from test to test

SPEAKING

Type of question  Task  Skills assessed  Time to answer 

Read aloud 

  

Read the provided text aloud  Reading and Speaking  Varies; depends on the length of text 

Repeat sentence 

  

After listening to a recording, repeat the sentence  Listening and Speaking 

15 seconds 

  

Describe image 

  

Describe the image provided in detail  Speaking 

40 seconds 

  

Re-tell lecture 

  

After listening to a lecture, re-tell it in your own words  Listening and Speaking 

40 seconds 

  

Answer short question  After listening to a question, answer with a single word  Listening and Speaking  10 seconds 

WRITING

Type of question  Task  Skills assessed  Time to answer 
Summarize written text  After reading a text, write a one-sentence summary  Reading and Writing  10 minutes 
Essay  Write a 200–300 word essay on the given topic  Writing  20 minutes

READING

Type of Question Task Skills assessed Word length
Multiple-choice, choose single answer After reading the text, answer a multiple-choice question on the tone or content of the text by selecting one response Reading text up to 110 words
Multiple-choice, choose multiple answers After reading the text, answer a multiple-choice question on the tone or content of the text by selecting more than one response Reading text up to 300 words
Re-order paragraphs Several text boxes appear on the screen in a random order. Put the text boxes in the correct order Reading text up to 150 words
Reading: Fill in the blanks A text appears on screen with several gaps. Drag words from the box below to fill the gaps Reading text up to 80 words
Reading and Writing: Fill in the blanks A text appears on screen with several gaps. Fill in each gap from a drop-down list of response options Reading and Writing text up to 300 words

LISTENING

Type of Question Task Skills assessed Clip Duration
Summarize spoken text After listening to the recording, write a 50 to 70 word summary Listening and Writing 60 to 90 seconds
Multiple choices, choose multiple answers After listening to the recording, answer a multiple-choice question on the tone or content of the recording Listening 40 to 90 seconds
Fill in the blanks A text of a recording appears on screen with several gaps. After listening to the recording, fill in the missing word in each gap Listening and Writing 30 to 60 seconds
Highlight correct summary After listening to the recording, select the paragraph that best summarizes the recording Listening and Reading 30 to 90 seconds
Multiple choices, choose single answer After listening to the recording, answer a multiple-choice question on the tone or  content of the recording by selecting one response Listening 30 to 60 seconds
Select missing word After listening to the recording, select the missing word that completes the recording from a list of options Listening 20 to 70 seconds
Highlight incorrect words The text of the recording appears on the screen. While listening to the recording, identify the words in the text that differ from what is said Listening and Reading 15 to 50 seconds
Write from dictation After listening to the recording of a sentence, type the sentence Listening and Writing 3 to 5 seconds