IELTS has suspended testing in dozens of countries/cities in line with official requirements and guidance from healthcare authorities and is making plans to ramp up testing again in affected centres as soon as it is safe again to do so.
Suspended testing
Testing is currently suspended in the following locations in line with official requirements. Please note, however, that the situation is evolving quickly, and it is possible that tests in other locations may be suspended at short notice. If you have any queries, please contact your test centre.
Afghanistan – all paper-based testing is suspended until 18 April 2020, all computer-delivered testing is suspended until 21 April 2020
Albania – all testing suspended until 3 April 2020
Algeria – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Argentina – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
Armenia – all testing suspended until 14 April 2020
Austria – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
Bahrain – all testing suspended until 30 March 2020
Belarus – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
Belgium – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
Bhutan – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Bosnia – all testing suspended until 27 March 2020
Brazil – all testing suspendeduntil 4 April 2020
Bulgaria – all testing suspended until 27 March 2020
Cameroon – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Mainland China
- Beijing – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- Guangzhoo – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- Shanghai – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- Chongqing – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
Colombia – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
Costa Rica – all testing suspended until 25 March 2020
Croatia – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
Cyprus – all testing suspended until 27 April 2020
Czech Republic – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
Denmark – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
Dominican Republic – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Ecuador
- IH Quito – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- IH Guayaquil – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
Egypt – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
Ethiopia – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Estonia – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Canada
- Conestoga College (all sites) – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
- Conestoga College Mississauga – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
- Conestoga College Markham – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
- Algonquin College (all sites) – all testing suspended until 5 April 2020
- Centennial College (all sites) – all testing suspended until further notice
- University of Toronto – Mississauga (all sites) – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic (all sites) – all testing suspended until 30 June 2020
- JDL Consulting – CES Toronto (all sites) – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Columbia International College – Mohawk College – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- Global Village Calgary – NorQuest College – all testing suspended until further notice
- Heartland International – Balmoral Hall School – all testing suspended until 30 July 2020
- Heartland International – Arts Forward – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- Heartland International – Brandon University – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- Heartland International – MITT – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- British Oxford Consultants – all testing suspended until 5 April 2020
- Brock University – all testing suspended until 1 June 2020
- East Coast Language College – all testing suspended until further notice
- ESLI at Trinity Western University – all testing suspended until 1 May 2020
- Grant MacEwan University – all testing suspended until 1 June 2020
- ILAC Vancouver – all testing suspended until further notice
- Keystone International School – all testing suspended until 5 April 2020
- Ontario Tech University – all testing suspended until further notice
- Sheridan College – all testing suspended until 1 May 2020
- Southern Ontario Collegiate – all testing suspended until 5 April 2020
- The Language Gallery – all testing suspended until further notice
- Westfield Education – all testing suspended until 5 April 2020
- English testing Canada – all testing suspended until 17 April 2020
- ILSC Montreal -all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- ILSC Toronto – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Concordia University – all testing suspended until 30 March 2020
- Edmonton Nait – all testing suspended until 30 March 2020
- Halifax St Mary Uni – all testing suspended until 17 April 2020
- LaSalle College Vancouver – all testing suspended until 30 April 2020
- Humber college (all sites) – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
- George Brown College (all sites) – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
- Coast English (all sites) – all paper-based is suspended until 11 April 2020, all computer-delivered testing is suspended until 1 April 2020
- MOSAIC Engage Surrey – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
- Eurocentres Abbotsford, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Kelowna, Langley, Regine – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
France – all testing suspended until 30 March 2020
Georgia, Tbilisi – all testing suspended until 27 March 2020
Germany – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
Greece – all testing suspended until 25 March 2020
Hungary – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
India
- Kottayam, Kerala – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Trivandrum, Kerala – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Calicut, Kerala – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Kochi, Kerala – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Thrissur, Kerala – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala – all testing suspended until 231 March 2020
- Angamaly, Kerala – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Kannur, Kerala – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
- Goa – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Mumbai – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Navi Mumbai – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Pune – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Bhubaneswar – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Thane – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Indonesia – all testing suspended until 28 March 2020
Iraq – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Ireland
- University of Dublin – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Cork English College – all testing suspended until 26 March 2020
- Centre of English Studies – all paper-based testing is suspended until 21 March 2020, all computer-delivered testing is suspended until 4 April 2020
Israel – all testing suspended until further notice
Italy – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Jamaica – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Jordan – all paper-based testing is suspended until 14 April 2020, all computer-delivered testing is suspended until 31 March 2020
Kazakhstan – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
Korea – all testing suspended until 22 March
Kosovo – all testing suspended until 23 March 2020
Kuwait – all testing suspended until 26 March 2020
Laos – all testing suspended until further notice
Latvia – all testing suspended until 21 April 2020
Lebanon – all testing suspended until 29 March 2020
Libya – all testing suspended until 30 March 2020
Lithuania – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
Macau SAR – all testing suspended until 28 March 2020
Malaysia – all testing suspended until 29 March 2020
Malta – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Mexico – all testing suspended until 1 April 2020
Mongolia – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
Morocco – all testing suspended until 30 March 2020
Mozambique – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Myanmar – all paper-based testing is suspended until 30 March 2020
Namibia – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Netherlands – all testing suspended until 18 June 2020
North Macedonia – all testing suspended until 1 May 2020
Norway – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
Oman – all testing suspended until 30 March 2020
Pakistan – all testing suspended until further notice
Palestinian Territories – all testing suspended until 27 March 2020
Peru, Lima, Universidad del Pacifico – all paper-based testing is suspended until 21 March 2020, all computer-delivered testing is suspended until 27 March 2020
Philippines – all testing suspended until 12 April 2020
Poland – all testing suspended until 25 March 2020
Portugal – all testing suspended until 12 April 2020
Qatar – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Romania – all testing suspended until further notice
Russia – all testing suspendeduntil further notice
Rwanda – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Saudi Arabia – all testing suspended until 31 March 2020
Senegal – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
Serbia – all testing suspended until 27 March 2020
Slovakia – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
Slovenia – all testing suspended until 15 April 2020
South Africa – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Spain – all testing suspended until 25 March 2020
Sri Lanka
- Nations Victory Campus, Negombo – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Jaffna Library – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Sudan – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
Switzerland – all testing suspended until 19 April 2020
Tanzania – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Thailand – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Trinidad – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
Tunisia – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Turkey – all paper-based testing is suspended until 1 April 2020
Turkmenistan, Ashgabat – all testing suspended until 14 March 2020
Ukraine – all testing suspended until 3 April 2020
United Arab Emirates – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Uzbekistan – all testing suspendeduntil 6 April 2020
Venezuela – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
Vietnam
- Hanoi – all testing suspended until 23 March 2020
- Ho Chi Minh City – all testing suspended until 5 April 2020
United Kingdom
- University of Liverpool – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Portsmouth Language Specialist – all testing suspended until further notice
- University of Reading – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- INTO East Anglia – all testing suspended until 16 May 2020
- Southampton – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Into Glasgow – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
- University of Sheffield – all testing suspended until 25 March 2020
- Aberdeen (BP) – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
- University of Liverpool – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Portsmouth Language Specialist – all testing suspended until further notice
- University of Reading – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- INTO East Anglia – all testing suspended until 16 May 2020
- Oxford – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- University of Westminster – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Warwickshire College, Rugby – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- Mayflower Plymouth – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- East Sussex College – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- MTS (all sites) – all testing suspended until 4 April 2020
- University of Nottingham – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
- Bellerby College – all testing suspended until further notice
- Eurocentres – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
- EHWLC – all testing suspended until further notice
- Chaucer College – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- QUB – all testing suspended until 21 March 2020
- SERC – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
- Leicester college – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
- University of Nottingham – all testing suspended until 18 April 2020
United States of America – All testing suspended until further notice