The Number of Questions do vary, even by types of them, from test to test
Type of question | Task | Skills assessed | Time to answer |
Read aloud
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Read the provided text aloud | Reading and Speaking | Varies; depends on the length of text |
Repeat sentence
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After listening to a recording, repeat the sentence | Listening and Speaking |
15 seconds
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Describe image
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Describe the image provided in detail | Speaking |
40 seconds
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Re-tell lecture
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After listening to a lecture, re-tell it in your own words | Listening and Speaking |
40 seconds
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Answer short question | After listening to a question, answer with a single word | Listening and Speaking | 10 seconds |
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 |
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 |
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 |