Official update: 4th May 2020
In addition to IELTS Indicator IELTS has released some information about testing centres reopening.
Australia:
- While some Australian test centres have suspended testing in April, others have applied additional hygiene precautions and physical distancing to ensure health and safety and continue to test.
- To find out the next available tests, check the test centres calendar.
- To see how to take the test safely, take these hygiene precautions.
- Test-takers who have travelled from mainland China, Iran, South Korea or Italy in the last 14 days, have a cough, fever or have difficulty breathing, or are in quarantine ARE NOT to attend the test.
The affected test-takers will be able to transfer test day, or cancel and receive a full refund.
Global:
COVID 19: Information for our global test taker community
- In locations where it is permitted and safe to do so, IELTS testing is going ahead, with additional precautions in place to help protect the health of test takers and staff.
| Country | Testing Situation |
| Armenia | – all testing suspended until 14 May 2020 |
| Australia | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Austria | – all testing suspended until 4 May 2020 |
| Azerbaijan | – all testing suspended until 4 May 2020 |
| Bahrain | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Bangladesh | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Beijing | – all testing suspended until 31 May 2020 |
| Belarus | – all testing suspended until 24 April 2020 |
| Belgium | – all testing suspended until 15 May 2020 |
| Bhutan | – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020 |
| Bosnia | – all testing suspended until 1 May 2020 |
| Brazil | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Bulgaria | – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020 |
| Cambodia | – all paper-based testing is suspended until 9 May 2020. Please check with your local test centre for details of computer-delivered testing |
| Cameroon | – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020 |
| Chile | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Chongqing | – all testing suspended until 31 May 2020 |
| Colombia | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Costa Rica | – all testing suspended until further notice |
| Croatia | – all testing suspended until further notice |
| Cuba | – all testing suspended until further notice |
| Cyprus | – all testing suspended until 16 May 2020 |
| Czech Republic | – all testing suspended until 4 May 2020 |
| Dominican Republic | – all testing suspended until 30 May 2020 |
| Ecuador | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Estonia | – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020 |
| Ethiopia | – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020 |
| Fiji | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre. |
| Finland | – all testing suspended until 16 May 2020 |
| France | – all testing suspended until 11 May 2020 |
| Georgia, Tbilisi | – all testing suspended until 22 May 2020 |
| Germany | – all testing suspended until 5 May 2020 |
| Ghana | – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020 |
| Greece | – all testing suspended until 4 May 2020 |
| Guangzhoo | – all testing suspended until 31 May 2020 |
| Hong Kong | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Hungary | – all testing suspended until 9 May 2020 |
| India | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Indonesia | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Iraq | – all testing suspended until 22 May 2020 |
| Ireland | – all testing suspended until further notice |
| Israel | – all testing suspended until further notice |
| Italy | – all testing suspended until further notice |
| Jamaica | – all testing suspended until 10 May 2020 |
| Japan | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Jordan | – Some tests are suspended. Please check with your local test centre for details. |
| Kazakhstan | – all testing suspended until 11 May 2020 |
| Kenya | – all testing suspended until 24 April 2020 |
| Kosovo | – all testing suspended until 1 May 2020 |
| Shanghai | – all testing suspended until 31 May 2020 |
| United Kingdom, Aberdeen | – Tests currently suspended until 4 April 2020 |
In some locations, IELTS testings are suspended in line with official requirements. Check the list here.
Official update: 20 April 2020
IELTS has just announced the release of the IELTS Indicator, an online test to allow you to take the IELTS exam during Coronavirus from your own home. See our full article on the IELTS Indicator here.
Official update: 16 March 2020
We understand the anxieties and concerns about Coronavirus and the future of IELTS test and hope we can provide some clarity during these uncertain times.
Do you have an IELTS exam scheduled in the upcoming months?
E2Language will keep you updated on the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the potential impact on students trying to take their IELTS exam.
Newest information on testing facilities above.
Are you taking the IELTS exam in Australia? This information will help.
Grace says:
I’m scheduled earlt April here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and received a suspension of exam till further notice email but when I clarified thru email, I can get my test on the date and will notify for suspension/cancellation few days before the test.
TEH SIEW YEE says:
When will it open again in British Council? (Address :Ground Floor, West Block, Wisma Dredging, 142C, Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia.
Tel:03-27237900