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Non-EEA national partners and parents on the family route will need to pass a speaking and listening test at level A2 in order to qualify, after two-and-a half-years in the UK, for further leave to remain on the five-year partner or parent route to settlement.

Posted by Admin on Jan 21, 2016

This is exciting news: a new IELTS test called IELTS Life Skills is going to be available from April 2015. Candidates will be able to register and pay for their test from late March 2015.

Posted by Admin on Jan 13, 2015


IELTS Life Skills Test

IELTS Life Skills test is different from the General Training IELTS and from the Academic IELTS, it only tests two skills, Listening and Speaking. It is intended mainly for people wanting to immigrate to the UK. The new test was announced at the same time as changes to UK immigration requirements it is linked specifically to the UK immigration, but in the future other countries might add the IELTS Life Skills test to their visa requirements.

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Test format:
There are 3 people in the examination room: two test takers and one examiner. The examiner is assessing each of the two test takers. At times the two test takers are required to interact with each other. There is no break between the Speaking and Listening assessments.
Note: The performance of one test taker is not supposed to affect the score of the other test taker.