Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Thinking of education abroad, if yes, think of how you can crack the IELTS Test

Completed your school. Good for you. But, what is next?

Thinking of going abroad, preferably US or Europe or Australia or New Zealand. What are the prerequisites that essentially make you qualified for education abroad.

Your ENGLISH is one major prerequisite that decides on your admission into a college or university abroad. It may be for under-graduation, graduation or post graduation, whatever, your ENGLISH skills need to be tested and certified.

INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING SYSTEM (IELTS) is designed and administered by the Cambridge University, IDP Australia and British Council. IELTS is the benchmark to decide the standard of your written and spoken ENGLISH.

RISECO, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam (INDIA) now offers quality and result-oriented IELTS Preparatory Courses for students in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Riyadh. As this program is completely online, you can pursue it from the convenience of your home/office. As IELTS demands a certain standard of ENGLISH, we also have the Professional English Proficiency Certification (PEPC) that equips students (not good at ENGLISH) in the basics of ENGLISH.

IELTS is an international English Test. This Test is mandatory for admission into any college/university abroad. Our focused endeavors are to ensure that each student should score a high band (7 or 8) in all the 4 skills (LISTENING - SPEAKING - READING - WRITING), so that they are assured of admission into the institution of their choice.

Online IELTS Preparatory Courses

1. Foundation Course for IELTS Examination (FCIE)
Duration: 8 weeks. Weekly: 3 hours. Total Duration. 24 hours. Fee: $100.

2. Preparatory Course for IELTS Examination (PCIE)
Duration: 8 weeks. Weekly: 4 hours. Total Duration. 32 hours. Fee. $240.

3. Practice Tests for IELTS Examination (PTIE)
Duration: 4 weeks. Weekly: 8 hours. Total Duration: 32 hours. Fee. $120.

RAMESH INSTITUTE of Spoken English and Content Writing (RISECO) has been conducting foundation program for IELTS Examination since 1997. The foundation program is meant for IELTS aspirants who are not good at English communication skills. The foundation program enhances the English speaking, writing, reading and speaking skills of students/professionals appearing for the IELTS examination. We are now also offering preparatory courses for IELTS Examination.

The Admission into our IELTS Foundation and Preparatory Courses is based on a Screening Test. The Screening Test is mandatory for all IELTS aspirants. The Test makes a complete assessment of each IELTS aspirants' vacabulary, grammar, pronunciation and usage.

SCREENING TEST. 20 MINUTES

(Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing tests are conducted on Skype/Web Conference platform)

1. Reading Test. You have to read out a passage/story from the given website/URL. Your reading is assessed on the basis of speed, right utterance, accentuation and intonation. (5 minutes)
2. Listening Test. You have to listen to a passage/story, and narrate it in your own words. You are assessed for your listening comprehension, and narrative skills. Your vocabulary and grammar are also checked for accuracy. (5 minutes)
3. Speaking Test. You are given a topic and asked to speak out for 1-2 minutes. Your speech is assessed for grammatical accuracy and vocabulary. (5 minutes)
4. Writing Test. You are given a topic on which you need to write 50 - 100 words. (5 minutes)

Screening Test results are announced immediately, and the IELTS aspirant's admission into any of the three(3) courses is confirmed by mail. The discretion of the IELTS Trainer/Examiner in deciding on each aspirant's admission (criteria and assessment are sent by mail) into any of the three(3) courses is final. The IELTS aspirant may or may not take admission. There will be no refund of fee.

Essential infrastructure:

You need to have a computer, Internet connection, Gmail, and Skype.

Method of Teaching and Learning:

1. This course is completely eLearning based. Synchronous activities are promoted by Skype, and asynchronous activities are promoted by the Discussion Forum.

2. Learning modules are uploaded at the LMS. Each IELTS aspirant is provided an ID and PW to access the LMS, and allowed to download the modules.

3. Written assignments should be submitted at the Discussion Forum. Each aspirant is provided enough practice in reading, listening and writing.

4. The British Council's IELTS Test Guidance website is taken as the benchmark for our IELTS Preparatory Courses. This website is considered as the established and standard IELTS Test Preparation Platform. However, this cannot be considered as an alternative to the mature guidance and support provided by the trainer/examiner.

SANJAY NANNAPARAJU
Tested for IELTS Examiner Empanelment
(April 26th, 2003. IDP)
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