There are two types: IELTS Academic and General training exam; get knowledge about both of them here.
IELTS Academic: As it implies that this exam is meant for planning to study for some higher education or who want to pursue their career in professional manner.
It accesses the candidate’s level for academic studying or English training.
The IELTS academic format includes 30 minutes of Listening section where recording 1 will be included conversation between 2 people and 2 will be having monologue set in an everyday schedule and where 3 will be having conversation in up to four people and recording 4 must be having a monologue on an academic subject.
Then comes Reading section that is of 60 minutes with 40 questions that includes reading for main ideas, detail, skimming and also understanding of the logical arguments.
In the Academic section, it includes three long texts that range from the descriptive to analytical data that are generally extracted from Books, Magazines, newspapers, Notices and Advertisements.