Is Possible to Study in UK without IELTS for Indian Students?

United Kingdom which is popularly known as the UK is a group of 4 small areas; England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. These places are under the heavy influence of the olden times and the Royal family. These places have rich heritage in art, culture and education which have been promoted and emphasized here since long. Therefore, being able to study here is an honor for anyone as one gets to experience all that along with the modern education. In the past only few fortunate wealthy Indians were able to go to the UK Study and it was not even in dreams of the common people, however, nowadays it has become quite easy for students to get educated there and acquire best education in great atmosphere.

UK is very particular about the quality of international students who study in their university and wish to have the best students who are able to study well and help to boost their global image of good education. Therefore, they do consider the academic performance of the foreign students who apply to their universities to study. In this course, they pay a lot of attention to the English proficiency level of the outsiders as it is extremely to know the local language to study well and live without much challenges. It is reasonable on their part if they do so as once in the UK the well-being of the international student is their government’s responsibility. A good used of the language will not suffer due to the language barrier in the UK and will be able to survive and excel.

Due to the significance of the language skills, it is made mandatory for all the foreign students to provide evidence of their English proficiency by clearing the language tests like IELTS which is the most acceptable test worldwide including the UK. It is the global language these days and non-native speakers of English also study it in their schools, so they are aware of the language. IELTS is the test meant to assess the English level of the non-native speakers of English. It tests all the important skills of English; Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening. It is really great but many of the aspirants do not prefer taking this test due to various reasons, here are some of them:

• Time Consuming: IELTS test is a long test and takes one complete day for the Reading, Listening & the Writing test along with 1-2 hours on some other day for Speaking. As people have hectic schedules, it becomes difficult to take out so much of time to take this test.
• Result is declared late: The Paper based IELTS test’s results are declared in 13 days’ time which is quite long time for people to wait for it, although the computer delivered test’s result is out in 3-4 days’ time.
• Expensive: It is true that it is an expensive test, currently it costs 17K in India but this keeps on changing. Also, if someone needs to take the test again then it is too much for many people.
• Do not feel the need: A lot of Indian students who have studied from good schools and are very good users of the language do not see the logic behind taking the test to prove their language skills, so they do not wish to go with this.

If you too are unwilling to take IELTS test to go abroad then there is no reason for you to be demotivated as there are ways available for you too which will allow you to go to the UK for education without the IELTS Scores. Let’s see what the alternatives are:

1. 10^th& 12^th scores: The most important thing assessed by many universities in such cases is the English scores in 10^th and 12^th grades, it must not be less than 60%.
2. Medium of Study: If your medium to study throughout your school was English and you have scored good marks in the language too then many of the places exempt IELTS and offer you a place to get enrolled.
3. Special Assessments: Some of the educational institutes or universities have special tests that they want the applicants to take so that they can check their English skills. Many of them also take a telephonic or video interview of the applicant to confirm the language skills.
4. Other Tests available: Apart from IELTS there are other tests available which take less time and deliver results sooner than IELTS which aspirants can take if they are not willing to take IELTS, for instance PTE which is widely accepted in the UK.

So, do not be disappointed if you do not wish to take the IELTS test, there are ways for you to still live your dream of studying abroad.