International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is a test of English as a foreign language which tests the student' proficiency in the four areas of English language; Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking with a band score of 1to 9 for each individual section.
There are two kinds of IELTS Test Preparation Courses: the Academic Training and The General Training. The Academic is for the candidates who wish to pursue their higher education overseas whereas the General is for immigration and training requirements abroad.

At SAGIP
The IELTS classes are held form 6:45 am 6: 00 pm Mondays through to Fridays. The classrooms are spacious and fully equipped with up-to-date IELTS teaching materials. The timings of the classes will be of ten hours a week from Mondays to Fridays. The teacher will provide one hour theory class and the students will have one hour practical class in the library or in the self access lab.

Sunday Test
Every Sunday full listening, reading and writing tests are held for a two and half hour duration along with the band scores. In the test each student is provided with individual headphones along with his/her personal volume control. The Sunday tests are like the real tests and the results are displayed on the getway notice board as well as on the getway web.

Speaking Test
Speaking Practice Tests are similar to those of the real test modules. The speaking module will be of 11 to 14 minutes and consists of an oral interview between the candidate and the examiner. The speaking interviews are recorded on tape for students' revision.

Multimedia Digital Lab
The twentieth century was marked by the electronic transistor and the machines and ideas made possible by it. As a result, the world changed from analog to digital. Although the computer reigns supreme in the digital domain, it is not the only digital device. Getway has introduced the first IELTS Multimedia Digital Lab in .

The benefits of the Sanako Lab :
· Easy to use
· Activity-based approach
· Features to help in Listening and Speaking
· Focus on comprehension and speech fluency
· Outstanding sound quality
· Testing on and reporting of students progress
· Digital and analogue program sources
· Allows multiple classroom layouts

Facilities
The IELTS students are provided with live video presentations of national and international programs of the IELTS sub-test modules viz: Listening, Reading , Writing and Speaking, from the Getway in-house collections available in the self-access lab. A well equipped self-access library for each IELTS module.
A compiled IELTS writing text book with model question & answer, sample essays with band scores and examiners remarks. The book also contains a wide variety of IELTS model essay questions for class room discussions.

Materials
Students are provided with a free IELTS text book, an audio cassette together with an IELTS compiled writing text book for writing that contains both questions & answers. Students are given the opportunity to access the study materials for reading, writing and listening practices from the web, as well as from the library.

IELTS Crash Course
A quick course for IELTS has been designed to cater for the needs of those pupils that wish to appear in the IELTS Examination in a short and emergent time period for personal reasons. For this course students may apply for either a one week, two weeks or three weeks course which covers all the four sections within the frame work of the test modules viz: General and Academic Training - Listening, Reading, Writing and the Speaking module.