Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth in the flow of Indian students for higher education abroad especially to USA, Canada, UK, Australia and other parts of Europe. One of the positive factors that influence this trend is the economic liberalization and the presence of multinationals in India and South Asia, resulting in swift industrial, professional and socio-economic developments. Added to this is the opening up of global employment opportunities. An additional factor that has encouraged this tendency is the relatively high competition and the difficulties experienced in India. Also, intakes in colleges are restricted and the number of recognized institutions offering courses of one's choice limited. At the same time, educational institutions abroad have excellent infrastructure with capable faculty handing undergraduate and graduates studies. The courses are more flexible in terms of the range of subjects and the reach to students. It has now become common to see advertisements by institutions of various countries in magazines and newspapers inviting Indian students to join various regular and short-term courses run by them. As per UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012) the number of Indian students studying abroad has almost tripled from 51,000 in 1999 to over 153,000 in 2007 and stood at over 200,000 in 2010; making India the second nation after China among the world's largest sending countries for tertiary students. In 2010 around 51% of the Indian students abroad pursued education in USA, with around 19% in United Kingdom and around 10% in Australia. And not to forget, these numbers has been increased tremendously since 2010. Further Information For further information visit friendly Academic Counselor of Overseas Consultancy Services today. Alternatively you may also visit www.pearsonpte.com IELTS

IELTS The IELTS (International English Language Testing System) assesses the language ability of people who need to study or work where English is the language of communication. It is an internationally recognised qualification and entry requirement for universities in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is also widely used by governments as a language proficiency guide when issuing work visas and is accepted by various professional organizations. It consists of four modules as listening ,Reading ,Writing and Speaking.,and it is available in two test formats as Academic or General Training. All candidates take the same Listening and Speaking modules but different Reading and Writing modules. All candidates must complete four Modules - Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking - to obtain a band score, which is shown on the IELTS Test Report Form (TRF). Listening, Reading and Writing must be completed in one day. Depending on candidate's test centre, the Speaking test may be offered on the same day or up to a week before or after the other parts. IELTS is scored on a nine-band scale, with each band corresponding to a specified competence in English. Overall Band Scores are reported to the nearest half band.The following rounding convention applies: if the average across the four skills ends in .25, it is rounded up to the next half band, and if it ends in .75, it is rounded up to the next whole band.