Notice to Candidates
IELTS test terms and conditions
You must …
• provide proof of your identity (passport or National Identity Card) at
registration. Contact the test centre to confirm which type of identity
document is accepted. Candidates taking the test outside their own country
must use a passport.
• inform the centre of any changes to your identity document before the test
date. If you do not do this you will not be allowed to take the test and you will
not be eligible for a refund or transfer.
• bring the same identity document on the test day as the one recorded inyour application. If you do not do this you will not be allowed to take the test
and you will not be eligible for a refund or transfer.
• arrive at the centre before the scheduled test start time. If you arrive late, youwill not be allowed to take the test and you will not be eligible for a refund ortransfer.
• leave all personal belongings in the designated belongings area. The only
items you may bring into the test room are your approved identity document,
standard pen(s), pencil(s) and eraser(s), and a bottle of water (label-free).
All electronic devices and all watches must be left in the belongings areaand must be switched off. You may be electronically scanned for devices at
any time during the test day. Any candidate who breaches these conditions
will not receive an IELTS test result or be eligible for a refund or transfer.
While the centre will take all reasonable measures to secure your items in thebelongings area, they cannot be held responsible for any loss.
• consent for your identity to be verified both at test registration and on testday. This may include:– having your photograph taken. You will be required to temporarily remove
any covering from your face. Any candidate who refuses to have aphotograph taken will not be allowed to sit the test and will not be entitledto a refund. The photograph taken by the centre will appear on your Test
Report Form.
– providing a sample of your signature.
– having your finger scan taken.
• keep only the following items on your desk: your identity document, pen(s),pencil(s), eraser(s), and a bottle of water (label-free).

Candidates engaging in malpractice will not be allowed to complete the test
and will not receive an IELTS test result. Candidates engaging in malpractice
may be banned from taking the test in future, and may be liable to legal
action. Candidates engaging in malpractice may be reported to regulatory
authorities globally.

Your IELTS test result• Results are issued by centres, usually 13 days after the test.
• You will receive only one copy of your Test Report Form. Replacement
copies are not issued in the event of loss or damage.
• The Test Report Form will be issued in your name as it appears on the identity
document used at registration. If you find that your personal details areincorrect on the Test Report Form, please contact the centre where you took
the test. Documentation must be provided to verify the correct details. If youchange your name after receiving your Test Report Form, the name will not bechanged on the Test Report Form.
• Your result may not be issued 13 days after the test if the IELTS Test
Partners decide that it is necessary to review any matter associated withyour test or the administration of your test. To assist any investigation, you
may be required to provide writing and speaking samples. In exceptional
circumstances you may be required to re-take one or more IELTScomponents.
• Your result may be cancelled after it has been issued if any irregularity isidentified. You may be required to re-take one or more IELTS components.
• Your result will be disclosed to the Recognising Organisations which you
nominated in your application or to which you applied with your Test ReportForm, for the purpose of allowing those organisations to verify the result or tocarry out any enquiries in relation to suspected malpractice.
• If any of the data on the Test Report Form provided by you or your agent toRecognising Organisations has been altered in any way, your original test
result may be cancelled.
• Candidates are not permitted access to the work they produce in theIELTS test.

• tell the invigilator at once if you think you have not been given the correctquestion paper or if the question paper is incomplete or illegible.

Cancelling your IELTS test o­ r requesting a transfer• raise your hand if you need to ask the invigilator something. Candidates may
not ask for, and will not be given, any explanation of the test questions.

• For information on cancelling your IELTS test or requesting a transfer, please
go to ielts.org.

• attend all four components of the test. If you do not attend all four components,
you will not receive an IELTS test result. Exceptions are possible but must
be requested at registration and written approval must be received fromthe centre.

How IELTS uses your information• inform the invigilator on the day of the test if you believe that yourperformance may be affected by ill health, by the way in which the test
is delivered at the centre or for any other reason. If you have a complaint
relating to the delivery of the test, you must submit your complaint to the test
centre before you leave the centre on test day. Complaints relating to thedelivery of the test will not be accepted after test day.

• The IELTS Test Partners recognise and support the right of IELTS test
candidates to privacy.

• leave all test materials in the test room at the end of the test. The test materials
include question papers, Speaking booklets, answer sheets and roughpaper. Any candidate who attempts to remove test materials from the test
room will not receive an IELTS test result.

• Test Report Forms will only be sent to those Recognising Organisations
nominated by the candidate in their application or at the request of thecandidate after the issue of results. When a candidate submits a Test Report
Form to a Recognising Organisation they consent to the verification of theresult by that organisation.

You must not …

• The IELTS Test Partners or their authorised representatives may sharecandidate personal data including without limitation test performance orscore data or photographs taken by the centre with educational institutions,governments (including visa processing authorities), professional bodies
and commercial organisations that recognise IELTS scores (‘RecognisingOrganisations’) or law enforcement agencies and regulatory authorities
where required for verification purposes or other purposes to protect theIELTS test and its stakeholders against any form of malpractice. Finger-scandata, where obtained, will not be disclosed to any entity except the IELTS
Test Partners.

• talk to or disturb other candidates once the test has started.
• lend anything to, or borrow anything from, another candidate during the test.
• eat or smoke in the test room.
• leave the test room without the permission of the invigilator.
• leave your seat until all test materials have been collected and you havebeen told you can leave.
• engage in any form of malpractice which may damage the integrity andsecurity of the IELTS test. Malpractice includes, but is not limited to:–a ttempting to cheat in any way, including using notes of any kind fromany source.
– helping another candidate to cheat.
– impersonating another candidate or having another candidate
impersonate you.
– copying the work of another candidate.
– disrupting the test in any way.
– reproducing any part of the test in any medium.
– attempting to alter the data on the Test Report Form.

• When you provide your identity information the IELTS Test Partners link that
information to your IELTS test and test result on the Test Report Form. This
enables you to submit your Test Report Form to Recognising Organisations
and for them to verify your result.

• The IELTS Test Partners will retain work produced by candidates in theIELTS test and may use it for quality control purposes and for investigations
into suspected malpractice. Test score data and test responses, in ananonymous form, may also be used for informational, research, statisticalor training purposes.

*Important: Please detach this section (pages i–iv) and retain for your own records.

iDeclaration
1.

I acknowledge that the IELTS test is jointly owned by British Council, IELTS Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 84 008 664 766), which is wholly owned by IDP
Education Ltd (‘IDP: IELTS Australia’) and Cambridge Assessment English (part of the University of Cambridge), collectively referred to as the IELTS
Test Partners.

2.

I acknowledge that I have read the IELTS Information for Candidates booklet.

3.

I acknowledge that I have read the ‘IELTS Notice to Candidates’ in this Application Form and agree to abide by the IELTS test terms and conditions.

4.

I understand that there may be local terms and conditions that I must comply with and that the test centre will provide details of these on request.

5. 	I understand that if the details on this Application Form are not completed, my application may not be processed. I further understand thatcompleting and submitting this form does not guarantee registration on my preferred test date or at my preferred test location. I understand that myregistration will be confirmed in writing by the test centre.
6.

I certify that the information in my application is complete, true and accurate.

7.

I understand that my test result cannot be used for United Kingdom Visas and Immigration (UKVI) application purposes and that I will not be eligiblefor a refund if I subsequently find that I require an IELTS for UKVI test result.

Personal Information
I understand that:
8.

It is necessary for my personal information to be collected and processed in order for me to take the IELTS test, to verify my identity and to receive
my results. This personal information is collected and securely stored when I apply for and when I take the IELTS test and is used by the IELTS Test
Partners for the purpose of the IELTS test.

9.

My personal information, including, without limitation, test performance or score data and my test result may be disclosed by the IELTS Test
Partners to Recognising Organisations to which I apply and to governments (including visa processing authorities) for the purpose of allowing theseorganisations to verify my test result.

10. My personal information may be processed in an anonymous form by the IELTS Test Partners for statistical and research purposes.
11. My photograph will be taken by the test centre on test day and will appear on my Test Report Form. This photograph will be provided to any
Recognising Organisations or government authorities to which I apply, to allow these organisations to verify my test result.
12. I will be required to verify my identity on test day by providing the identity document specified by the test centre. I may also be requested to confirm
my identity on test day by having a finger scan taken. The finger scan is taken as a Binary Large Object (BLOB), and no image of my fingerprint will
be held. This biometric data will be held for 60 days after my test and will not be disclosed to any entity except the IELTS Test Partners.
13. My Speaking test will be recorded. In the event the test does not record I will be required to re-take the Speaking test. An observer may attend mySpeaking test as part of the examiner monitoring process.
14. I may be filmed for security and quality assurance purposes when registering for the test and during the test. The video footage will be for held for 60
days after my test and may be used for audit or investigation purposes.
15. I can access further details on how the IELTS Test Partners use my personal information (including how long it is retained in different circumstancesand how I can exercise my rights) at ielts.org/privacy.

Test Fees and Refunds
I understand that:
16. I will be charged the full test fee upon registration.
17. If I request a transfer or cancel my test, my right to a refund will be determined in accordance with local legislation.

Test Integrity, Security and Malpractice
I understand that:
18. I must attend all four test components in order to receive a test result and any exception to this must be approved in advance by the test centre.
19. The IELTS Test Partners have a responsibility to all candidates and Recognising Organisations to ensure the highest confidence in IELTS test results.
The IELTS Test Partners may therefore be required to withhold test results temporarily or permanently, or to cancel test results which have beenissued, if they consider those results to be unreliable for any reason.
20. My test result may not be issued 13 days after the test if any of the IELTS Test Partners consider it necessary to review any matter associated withmy test or the administration of my test, including making enquiries as to whether any rules or regulations have been breached. I may be required
to provide additional samples of my writing and speaking for the purposes of assisting any investigation before or after the test. In exceptional
circumstances I may be required to re-take one or more IELTS components.
21. If I am suspected of engaging in any form of malpractice, or do anything that might damage the integrity and security of IELTS, I may not receive atest result, my test fee will not be refunded and I may be banned from taking the IELTS test in the future. If I am banned, I will receive a notification
stating the length of the ban. If I am subject to a ban and I register to take the test, I will not receive a test result and I will not be entitled to a refund.
If a result is issued to me while I am subject to a ban, this result will be cancelled and I will not be entitled to a refund.
22. Details of any proven or suspected malpractice may be provided to Recognising Organisations, including governments (including visa processingauthorities) and appropriate regulatory authorities, and centrally to the IELTS Test Partners. In instances where malpractice has been proven, I may
be liable to prosecution.
23. The work I produce in the IELTS test remains the property of the IELTS Test Partners and will not be released to me. In cases of proven or suspectedmalpractice my work may be provided to relevant authorities.
Disclaimer: The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is designed to be one of many factors used by academic institutions, government
agencies, professional bodies and employers in determining whether a test taker can be admitted as a student or be considered for employment or for
citizenship purposes. IELTS is not designed to be the sole method of determining admission or employment for the test taker. IELTS is made available
worldwide to all persons, regardless of age, gender, race, nationality or religion, but it is not recommended to persons under 16 years of age.
British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge Assessment English and any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering IELTS shallnot be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, special, punitive, or similar damages arising out of access to, use of, acceptance by, orinterpretation of the results by any third party, or any errors or omissions in the content thereof.

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