Anne felt that IELTS, by moving between topics and by moving from fact based to more discursive
texts might ‘reflect in miniature what [students] have to do… look at a variety of sources, get key
ideas, get attitudes, get opinions’ while Elizabeth countered that, given the practical restrictions on
what could be covered in a one-hour test ‘there is a huge amount we don’t do of course: dealing with
contents, dealing with indexes, dealing with chapters and all that sort of macro stuff. We can’t do it.’