Glossary
General Training
Also written as IELTS General Training, GT
One of the two IELTS tests, taken for migration to Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the UK and for training below degree level. Its Reading and Writing differ from Academic; Listening and Speaking are the same.
Guides that use this term
Sentence Completion: Words From the Text, Inside the Word Limit
Sentence completion is one of only four Reading types where IELTS states the questions follow the order of the text, which makes it the fastest type on the paper to work through. Academic lists it separately; General Training folds it into the completion type.
Reading
Checked against ielts.org on 8 September 2026.