Masih bingung dengan perbedaan IELTS Academic dan General Training? Artikel ini akan membahas perbedaan IELTS Academic vs General Training, perbedaan isi dan struktur tes, contoh-contoh soalnya, dan rekomendasi jenis IELTS yang sesuai dengan kebutuhanmu.
IELTS merupakan salah satu tes kemampuan bahasa Inggris yang paling sering digunakan. Hasil IELTS umumnya digunakan sebagai persyaratan untuk mendaftar kampus hingga mengajukan visa. Nah, untuk memfasilitasi kebutuhan tersebut, IELTS menyediakan 2 jenis tes, yaitu IELTS Academic dan IELTS General Training. Meskipun durasi pengerjaan dan jumlah section yang diujikannya sama, kedua jenis IELTS ini punya perbedaan, loh!
Kali ini, Elevau bakal mengupas perbedaan dari IELTS Academic dan General Training, baik dari tujuan, isi dan struktur soalnya, contoh soal-soalnya, hingga rekomendasi jenis IELTS yang cocok buat kamu.
Perbedaan IELTS Academic dan General Training
Setiap orang punya tujuan yang berbeda saat mengambil tes IELTS. Oleh karena itu, penting untuk memahami perbedaan antara IELTS Academic dan General Training. Di bawah ini, Elevau akan membahas perbedaan keduanya berdasarkan tujuan, siapa yang cocok mengambilnya, serta contoh kasusnya.
1. Tujuan IELTS Academic dan General Training
Dari tujuannya, IELTS Academic dan General Training punya perbedaan. IELTS General Training ditujukan kepada orang-orang yang ingin bekerja dan tinggal di negara berbahasa Inggris (Australia, Inggris, Kanada, Selandia Baru) atau bekerja dan belajar di bawah level sarjana.
IELTS Academic sendiri ditujukan kepada siapapun yang ingin menempuh pendidikan tinggi, dari tingkat sarjana hingga pascasarjana di luar negeri. Banyak universitas top dunia yang menetapkan skor minimum IELTS-nya, loh.
Dengan kata lain, IELTS General Training menilai kemahiran dan kepercayaan dirimu untuk berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris, sedangkan IELTS Academic lebih berfokus pada menilai kemampuan bahasa Inggrismu dalam lingkup pendidikan atau akademis.
2. IELTS Academic vs General Training, Cocok untuk Siapa?
Kalau kamu memang memiliki rencana untuk studi lanjut di luar negeri, IELTS Academic adalah pilihan yang cocok buatmu. Jika kamu memang ingin mengajukan untuk menetap ke negara berbahasa Inggris, kamu bisa mengambil IELTS General Training.
3. Studi Kasus
- IELTS Academic: Kamu ingin kuliah S2 di Oxford University di Inggris. Maka, kamu harus mengambil tes IELTS Academic, yang mengukur kemampuanmu dalam berbahasa Inggris dalam lingkup akademis.
- IELTS General Training: Kamu ingin mengambil Work Holiday Visa (WHV) untuk bekerja di Australia. Maka, kamu harus mengambil tes IELTS General Training yang menilai kemampuan berkomunikasimu dalam bahasa Inggris.
Perbedaan Struktur dan Jenis Soal IELTS Academic dan General Training
Mengingat IELTS Academic dan General Training punya tujuan atau fungsinya masing-masing, tentunya ada perbedaan struktur dan isi soalnya. Kedua tes ini sama-sama menguji empat section atau skill, yaitu listening, reading, writing, speaking. Namun, ada perbedaan soal di section reading dan writing.
Perbedaan Reading Section IELTS Academic vs General Training
- Dalam IELTS Academic, kamu akan diminta untuk menjawab pertanyaan dari 3 paragraf panjang, yang berisi kutipan dari buku, koran, dan majalah. Topik-topik yang dibahas merupakan hal-hal umum untuk mahasiswa sarjana maupun pascasarjana. Alhasil, teks yang ada di dalam soal pun adalah jenis naratif, deskriptif, argumentatif, dan lainnya.
- Untuk General Training, kamu diberikan 3 section. Teks dalam section pertama membahas topik sehari-hari, yang mana, kamu diminta untuk mengidentifikasi informasi penting. Untuk section kedua, kamu akan membaca teks mengenai pekerjaan (workplace), seperti deskripsi pekerjaan, kontrak kerja, dan lainnya.
- Akan tetapi, di section 3 tidak ada perbedaan antara kedua jenis test. Kamu akan diberikan teks yang berkaitan dengan hal-hal umum dan diambil dari buku, koran, dan majalah. Teks dalam section ini lebih panjang dan kompleks dibanding section 1 dan 2.
Perbedaan Writing Section IELTS Academic vs General Training
Baik IELTS Academic dan General Training punya 2 soal (task) di section writing dan durasi pengerjaan yang mirip. Namun, keduanya memiliki jenis soal yang berbeda, khususnya pada task 1.
- Di IELTS Academic task 1, kamu diminta untuk mendeskripsikan data visual dalam bentuk sebuah grafik/tabel/chart/diagram. Di sini, kamu akan dinilai dalam merangkum dan menganalisis sebuah data.
- Pada bagian writing section task 2 IELTS Academic, kamu diberikan sebuah isu atau topik yang akademis atau saintifik. Lalu, kamu diminta untuk menulis esai berisi opini terkait hal tersebut. Gaya bahasa yang digunakan pun formal dengan menggunakan kosakata yang akademis.
- Untuk IELTS General Training task 1, kamu diminta untuk menulis surat untuk tujuan tertentu. Surat tersebut dapat ditulis dengan bahasa formal maupun informal, tergantung dengan topik yang diberikan.
- Pada bagian Writing IELTS General Training, khususnya di task 2, kamu akan diminta menulis esai sederhana mengenai suatu topik umum. Tipe esai ini mirip dengan yang ada di IELTS Academic, tetapi kamu boleh menulisnya dengan gaya semi-formal atau netral.
Contoh Soal IELTS Academic dan General Training
Setelah membahas perbedaan jenis soal dan strukturnya, Elevau akan membahas contoh-contoh soalnya, khususnya pada section writing dan reading. Nah, kamu bisa menggunakan soal di bawah ini untuk latihan. Simak juga artikel ini kalau kamu ingin terhindar dari kesalahan umum saat mengerjakan writing section IELTS.
Soal Reading Section – IELTS Academic
The students’ problem
(A) The college and university accommodation crisis in Ireland has become ‘so chronic’ that students are being forced to sleep rough, share a bed with strangers – or give up on studying altogether.
(B) The deputy president of the Union of Students in Ireland, Kevin Donoghue, said the problem has become particularly acute in Dublin. He told the Irish Mirror: “Students are so desperate, they’re not just paying through the nose to share rooms – they’re paying to share a bed with complete strangers. It reached a crisis point last year and it’s only getting worse. “We’ve heard of students sleeping rough; on sofas, floors and in their cars and I have to stress there’s no student in the country that hasn’t been touched by this crisis. “Commutes – which would once have been considered ridiculous – are now normal, whether that’s by bus, train or car and those who drive often end up sleeping in their car if they’ve an early start the next morning.”
(C) Worry is increasing over the problems facing Ireland’s 200,000 students as the number increases over the next 15 years. With 165,000 full-time students in Ireland – and that figure is expected to increase to around 200,000 within the next 15 years –fears remain that there aren’t enough properties to accommodate current numbers.
(D) Mr. Donoghue added: “The lack of places to live is actually forcing school-leavers out of college altogether. Either they don’t go in the first place or end up having to drop out because they can’t get a room and commuting is just too expensive, stressful and difficult.”
(E) Claims have emerged from the country that some students have been forced to sleep in cars, or out on the streets, because of the enormous increases to rent in the capital. Those who have been lucky enough to find a place to live have had to do so ‘blind’ by paying for accommodation, months in advance, they haven’t even seen just so they will have a roof over their head over the coming year.
(F) According to the Irish Independent, it’s the ‘Google effect’ which is to blame. As Google and other blue-chip companies open offices in and around Dublin’s docklands area, which are ‘on the doorstep of the city’, international professionals have been flocking to the area which will boast 2,600 more apartments, on 50 acres of undeveloped land, over the next three to 10 years.
(G) Rent in the area soared by 15 per cent last year and a two-bedroom apartment overlooking the Grand Canal costs €2,100 (£1,500) per month to rent. Another two-bedroom apartment at Hanover Dock costs €2,350 (almost £1,700) with a three-bedroom penthouse – measuring some 136 square metres – sits at €4,500 (£3,200) per month in rent.
(H) Ireland’s Higher Education Authority admitted this was the first time they had seen circumstances ‘so extreme’ and the Fianna Fáil party leader, Michael Martin, urged the Government to intervene. He said: “It is very worrying that all of the progress in opening up access to higher education in the last decade – particularly for the working poor – is being derailed because of an entirely foreseeable accommodation crisis.
Questions:
Reading Passage 1 has eight paragraphs, A–H. Choose the most suitable paragraph headings from the list of headings and write the correct letter, A–H, in boxes 1–8 on your answer sheet.
- Cons of the commuting
- Thing that students have to go through
- Commutes have become common in Ireland nowadays
- Danger of the overflow
- Cause of the problems
- Pricing data
- Regression
- Eyeless choice
Soal Reading Section – IELTS General Training
(A)The newspaper production process has come a long way from the old days when the paper was written, edited, typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the journalists working on the upper floors and the printing presses going on the ground floor. These days the editor, subeditors and journalists who put the paper together are likely to find themselves in a totally different building or maybe even in a different city. This is the situation which now prevails in Sydney. The daily paper is compiled at the editorial headquarters, known as the prepress centre, in the heart of the city, but printed far away in the suburbs at the printing centre. Here human beings are in the minority as much of the work is done by automated machines controlled by computers.
(B) Once the finished newspaper has been created for the next morning’s edition, all the pages are transmitted electronically from the prepress centre to the printing centre. The system of transmission is an update on the sophisticated page facsimile system already in use on many other newspapers. An imagesetter at the printing centre delivers the pages as film. Each page takes less than a minute to produce, although for colour pages four versions, once each for black, cyan, magenta and yellow are sent. The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film is used to produce aluminium printing plates ready for the presses.
(C) A procession of automated vehicles is busy at the new printing centre where the Sydney Morning Herald is printed each day. With lights flashing and warning horns honking, the robots (to give them their correct name, the LGVs or laser guided vehicles) look for all the world like enthusiastic machines from a science fiction movie, as they follow their own random paths around the plant busily getting on with their jobs. Automation of this kind is now standard in all modern newspaper plants. The robots can detect unauthorised personnel and alert security staff immediately if they find an “intruder”; not surprisingly, tall tales are already being told about the machines starting to take on personalities of their own.
(D) The robots’ principal job, however, is to shift the newsprint (the printing paper) that arrives at the plant in huge reels and emerges at the other end some time later as newspapers. Once the size of the day’s paper and the publishing order are determined at head office, the information is punched into the computer and the LGVs are programmed to go about their work. The LGVs collect the appropriate size paper reels and take them where they have to go. When the press needs another reel its computer alerts the LGV system. The Sydney LGVs move busily around the press room fulfilling their two key functions to collect reels of newsprint either from the reel stripping stations, or from the racked supplies in the newsprint storage area. At the stripping station the tough wrapping that helps to protect a reel of paper from rough handling is removed. Any damaged paper is peeled off and the reel is then weighed.
(E) Then one of the four paster robots moves in. Specifically designed for the job, it trims the paper neatly and prepares the reel for the press. If required the reel can be loaded directly onto the press; if not needed immediately, an LGV takes it to the storage area. When the press computer calls for a reel, an LGV takes it to the reel loading area of the presses. It lifts the reel into the loading position and places it in the correct spot with complete accuracy. As each reel is used up, the press drops the heavy cardboard core into a waste bin. When the bin is full, another LGV collects it and deposits the cores into a shredder for recycling.
(F) The LGVs move at walking speed. Should anyone step in front of one or get too close, sensors stop the vehicle until the path is clear. The company has chosen a laserguide function system for the vehicles because, as the project development manager says “The beauty of it is that if you want to change the routes, you can work out a new route on your computer and lay it down for them to follow”. When an LGV’s batteries run low, it will take itself off line and go to the nearest battery maintenance point for replacement batteries. And all this is achieved with absolute minimum human input and a much reduced risk of injury to people working in the printing centres.
(G) The question newspaper workers must now ask, however is, “how long will it be before the robots are writing the newspapers as well as running the printing centre, churning out the latest edition every morning?”
Questions:
The text has seven paragraphs, A-G. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A, B and D-G from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-ix,in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet.
List of Headings
i Robots working together
ii Preparing LGVs for takeover
iii Looking ahead
iv The LGVs’ main functions
v Split location for newspaper production
vi Newspapers superseded by technology
vii Getting the newspaper to the printing centre
viii Controlling the robots
ix Beware of robots!
List of Paragraphs
27 Paragraph A
28 Paragraph B
EXAMPLE Paragraph C ix
29 Paragraph D
30 Paragraph E
31 Paragraph F
32 Paragraph G
Soal Writing Section – IELTS Academic
- Task 1: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart shows components of GDP in the UK from 1992 to 2000. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
- Task 2: Some people think that parents should teach their children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the best place to learn this. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Soal Writing Section – IELTS General Training
- Task 1: You recently attended a meeting at a hotel. When you returned home, you found you had left some important papers at the hotel. Write a letter to the manager of the hotel. In your letter:
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- Say where you think you left the papers
- Explain why they are so important
- Tell the manager what you want him/her to do
- Task 2: Some people believe that teaching children at home is best for a child’s development while others think that it is important for children to go to school. Discuss the advantages of both methods and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.
Kesimpulan
Meskipun sama-sama menguji 4 skills yang berbeda, terdapat perbedaan dari IELTS Academic dan IELTS General Training, ya. Di bawah ini, Elevau sudah merangkumnya buat kamu.
Perbedaan IELTS Academic vs IELTS General Training
- Tujuan: IELTS Academic ditujukan untuk studi lanjut, IELTS General Training ditujukan untuk bekerja atau menetap di negara berbahasa Inggris.
Perbedaan Struktur dan Jenis Soal IELTS Academic vs IELTS General Training
- Section yang Diuji: Kedua jenis tes menguji 4 kemampuan yang sama, tapi berbeda di di Reading dan Writing.
- Reading Section: Di IELTS Academic, bacaanya dari 3 teks dari artikel jurnal atau koran (lebih akademis), sedangkan topik reading IELTS General Training berkaitan dengan pekerjaan, kehidupan sehari-hari, dan hal umum.
- Writing Section: Soal IELTS Academic berkaitan dengan menginterpretasikan data dan menulis opini mengenai isu akademis, sedangkan soal IELTS General Training berfokus pada pembuatan surat dan menulis opini mengenai isu yang general.
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