Many People has a wrong perception of taking about Academic IELTS and UKVI IELTS. People just only believe that, UKVI IELTS is just only for the UK but not applicable for other countries. Wrong. UKVI IELTS is as same as Academic IELTS. Therefore, students who does UKVI IELTS also be able to use the same IELTS certificate to apply for other countries.

The IELTS organisation has published an article mentioning that difference and IELTS requirements for Asian continent. In that article, it was mentioned as followed:

“IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training for UKVI are designed to meet certain administrative requirements that are specified by the UK Home Office.The actual test taken is the same as IELTS (for all other purposes), same content, examiners, format, level of difficulty, scoring and so on. The difference is in the customer journey on the test day. Test Report Forms will be slightly different, to show that you have taken the test at an IELTS UK visa session. ”

Please click the link to read the full article for better understanding. https://www.ieltsasia.org/mm/study-in-uk/ukvi

Now, we are trying to give you some real admission scenario regarding the difference between HAVING AN UKVI IELTS VS ACADEMIC IELTS

• If any student can meet the English requirement for IELTS, then the student will be able to apply direct with an academic IELTS.
• If any student fails to meet the English requirements for University admission, and the person has an academic IELTS, then the university won’t be able to offer you any Pre-sessional course as the student didn’t follow the UK Home Office rules by taking an UKVI IELTS.
• If any student fails to meet the English requirements for University admission, and the person has an UKVI academic IELTS, then the university will be able to offer you some extra courses such as Pre-sessional English Language course or Foundation course to fulfil the requirements.

Therefore, We would like to request the students to take an UKVI IELTS rather than Academic IELTS.

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