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You can get in touch with your nearest test centre to find out how they can make special arrangements for your IELTS test.
Visual difficulties
If you have special requirements, you must book your IELTS test as soon as possible through your nearest IELTS test centre. It may take up to 6 weeks for the test centre to make special arrangements for you.
Your test centre will:
Yes. If you have special requirements, you can ask for an extra 25% of the normal time to complete the test. You can also request for more time or request for breaks depending on your medical condition. Your test centre will help you with this request.
You can ask for a reader who will read questions aloud to you. They can also read your answers back to you. However, you must note that the reader cannot read out texts or explain questions in the IELTS Reading test.
You can also contact your test centre to use the following types of equipment:
Your test centre may allow you to write your answers in the following methods if you cannot see or are partially sighted:
a) Electronic Braille keyboard, linked to a printer
b) Mechanical Braille keyboard
c) Computer or word processor (you cannot use the spellcheck, grammar check, thesaurus or similar functions)
d) Braille note taker
You can ask for a Braille question paper in the following formats:
