Talk:International English Language Testing System: Difference between revisions

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:In the same document, there is also a table classifying test takers by (self-reported) native language. The scores for them as a group, even though still close to the top of the table, were quite a bit lower than for "people from the UK", presumably because the group also included various English-speaking people from Caribbean, India, parts of Africa... where the local variety of English, even if natively spoken, may be rather distinct from what the test designers expect. -- [[User:Vmenkov|Vmenkov]] ([[User talk:Vmenkov|talk]]) 22:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

== About the section arrangements ==

The lead section is understandable, but it is too long. It should be just the key point of this article, for instance, what is the IELTS exam and who established it. However, the editor seems giving a full background information about this test. It will be better if they could move most of the paragraphs to a subsequent section. Another problem is that the topics are not balanced well. Under the section of ‘IELTS level required by academic institutions for admission’, they list 14 countries and give the information of IELTS requirements of the institutions in these countries. It does not appear to be necessary to list all these countries, different institutions in different countries will have different requirements. Moreover, this list is not really comprehensive which will give the reader a misunderstanding that only the institution in these countries require a IELTS score.