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It allows you to specify the column headings such that it prints on each page. I used package showframe to visualize the typing area and The xltabular combines the functionalities of longtable and tabularx. How to use the LaTeX tables generator? There is an abundance of evidence available in the public domain to support the claims that I discuss in this section. Candidate profiling IELTS collect more personal demographic client data than any other English language testing agency.
This personal data is used by IELTS to ensure that it does not award too many test-takers a set of scores that will qualify them for skilled migration to Australia and Canada. Figure 36 provides primary evidence to support this claim. IELTS do not define this term. It is fair to assume that IELTS defines this term to include a candidate withholding private demographic data e. IELTS can use statistical sampling to extrapolate this data to reflect the population makeup.
IELTS do not follow this standard business practice as they harbor secretive, unethical criminal motives for dictating that all clients must offer a complete description of their demographic background and intended use of the exam. Based on statistical sampling techniques, I estimate that IELTS do not meet their self-defined service charter for examination results reporting, i.
This feedback is consistent with other primary and secondary data sources that I use to triangulate inferences drawn in this section. Magoosh are suitably placed to provide accurate commentary on exam processes and scores as reported to their staff by their massive international client base. This approach is akin to using artificial intelligence software to prove a crime for a high-stakes test. As noted by Pell , p. In other words, it is near-certain that Cambridge Assessment rely on statistical data to unfairly fail and extract more revenue from multiple clients.
There are numerous legitimate reasons that may explain why honest candidates may offer identical responses such as multiple-choice selections during the reading test. For example, two candidates who sit the same IELTS exam may produce identical or near-identical examination responses because they are siblings who live together and prepared for the exam as study partners using the same preparation resources.
IELTS reserve the right to award these siblings a score of zero, without justification, merely because they suspect that they cheated. Per Research Communique 1, p. A candidate achieves a very high band score for one IELTS c or more language skills and receives a very low score for one or more different language skills taken in the same test cycle.
Extracts from two policy documents listed in Table 13 are shown in the two figures below. For example, a candidate who scores 8. Alternatively, they may score 4. IELTS reserve the right to award a score of zero merely because they suspect that an answer that is relevant and technically flawless was memorized. IELTS take the liberty to award scores of zero, without providing reasonable justification, because they have no hesitation in abusing their unrivalled market power at all stages during their exam design cycle and business administration processes.
The testimony shown in Figure 46, overleaf, is typical of numerous accounts that exist in the public domain. This strange policy is open to abuse. Figure 47 is evidence of this intrusive, unnecessary policy. Most skilled visa applicants and permanent residency visa applicants require band scores of 7. Using statistical sampling techniques, I conservatively estimate that IELTS have defrauded at least , persons annually, multiple times each over the past decade by awarding repeat score patterns typical of those in Figure Reading 8.
IELTS test-takers consistently report that they immediately receive higher i. Expat Forum, IELTS encourage international students to advise them what faculty and institution they aim to access.
IELTS examiners are more likely to offer fake marginal fail scores to test- takers who fit a certain demographic. Using statistical sampling, I estimate that in excess of , verfiable similiar accounts exist. This test-taker is a mature-age 30s immigrant from South Africa who consistently records perfect average band scores of 9.
IELTS award fake scores of 7. IELTS award this test-taker a score of 8. These Governments rely on IELTS examination fraud to expel most international students from their countries after they graduate and are no longer profitable to exploit.
Jericho et al. Claims made in this report are supported by thousands of individuals from a range of professions. These professions include educators, judicial officers, journalists and migration agents. My colleagues report that they repeatedly see their students earning scores of 6. These scores are much lower than scores that they consistently earn in mock examinations, as assessed by experienced, qualified IELTS tutors.
A candidate who could not score band scores of 5. This test-taker applied his reading, writing, listening and speaking English University of Sydney: Human Trafficking Criminal wwww. This judge had no difficulty following the arguments put forward by this man. I refer to figure IELTS simultaneously extorts massive financial surpluses from global exam fraud. Ahern, ; Al-Issa, They also violate international law.
It is imperative that these institutions act with compassion and set the highest standards of ethical behavior. At present, they fall far short of these moral standards.
Market power When determining what is a business racket and extortionate business practices, the courts take context into consideration. They also consider the market structures of where the business conducts its operations. National Consumer Complaint Forum India, IELTS are aware of their colossal global market power. IELTS routinely boasts that it maintains around 1, test centers in over countries. Figure 57 offers an example of these websites.
United Nations, c. The ABC is a respected, not- for-profit public institution. Figure 58, overleaf, documents this claim. It is exceptionally rare for the ABC to use such confronting accusatory language. The ABC has the authority to quote or omit any statements provided by interviewees. Table 14, overleaf, summarizes these business practices and supports these claims with a description of the logic that I use to draw these conclusions.
I also offer a current primary source to support all claims. Fatima has invested most of her life savings to sit one IELTS test so that she can migrate to Canada as a skilled worker. Fatima receives scores of: 8. Fatima is surprised by this score of 6. Fatima is convinced that the score of 6. Fatima explains her story multiple times and her calls are never returned. This illustration vignette is not theoretical. IELTS staff routinely ignore messages left via their local customer service number e.
Magoosh, b. There is ample evidence available from public testimonies that IELTS use its appeals remarking process to deliberately extort further profits from the estimated hundreds of thousands of people which it has repeatedly failed using fake marginal fail scores of 6.
Moreover, it does so, on a global scale, to extract maximum monopoly rents i. Figure 59 supports this claim. IELTS willfully target a vulnerable demographic and exploit their colossal market power to enforce a fake, unnecessary service that it repeatedly imposes on its clients to earn millions of dollars in revenue and profit each calendar year.
As shown in Figure 60, Burger reports that he is not aware of a successful outcome from an Enquiry on Results application. Figure 61, overleaf, captures this claim. Most persons affected by the two-year expiry date of the Test Report Form are international students. Figure 63 illustrates the very high cost that IELTS willfully imposes on most of these fraud victims.
The Candidate from India graduates with a B. Com from Macquarie University in and is eligible for skilled migration to Canada. To slow down immigration to Canada and to maximize profits, Monash University IELTS test center determines in advance that this candidate will be awarded fake 6. This claim is false. Cambridge English test certificates which are not related to IELTS do not expire and may be used for migration and professional registration purposes.
For example, a Doctor of Medicine Degree and a Master of Linguistics Degree remains perpetually valid at these universities. The University of Cambridge and IDP Education cynically profiteer to their maximum advantage from a highly vulnerable demographic. This youthful demographic, who are mostly citizens of developing nations, are very easy and highly profitable to defraud.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. Figure 65 shows that there are three elements to human trafficking crimes UN, b. Figure 65 Three elements of human trafficking crimes Source: United Nations b My research concludes that the collaborative activities of IELTS and its sponsors meet the three criteria of human trafficking.
Table 15 summarizes the logic that underpins this conclusion. Means Fraud, deception, abuse of power and vulnerability. Purpose Exploitation: slavery and other types of exploitation i. Nursing in their countries. Means: Fraud and Deception Canadian and Australian Governments deceitfully impose mandatory language tests on international student graduates who aim to earn a residency visa for either country.
Canadian and Australian Governments offer IELTS favorable legislative conditions to manage their Governments' international student migration programs. IELTS use examiner fraud to fail most international student graduates.
Purpose: Other types of exploitation Australian and Canadian Governments target vulnerable citizens of developing nations in Asia and the Middle East who aim to migrate to a developed country. Both Governments deceitfully fleece billions of dollars in tuition fees and other revenues e. Moreover, it has been established that IELTS use systemic examination fraud to earn repeat exam sales from their vulnerable client base. They are criminal global business operators. On average, it takes these persons approximately one month to earn enough income to pay for one IELTS test.
IELTS repeatedly fail most foreign worker and permanent residency visa applications multiple times via examination fraud. The IELTS consortium willfully imposes modern day slavery on mostly non- white citizens of developing nations and they do so on a massive global scale. Canada The Canadian Government has willfully and persistently offered IDP Education and IELTS Canada immunity from prosecution as these corporations serve as a covert proxy agent that expels international students from Canada after they complete their studies in Canada.
Furthermore, IELTS have repeatedly acted negligently by authoring secretive examination content and assessment policies that purposefully sets most test-takers up to fail.
A quantification of funds collected by IELTS via extortion, racketeering and examination fraud is the subject of a separate project. A relatively small percentage of applicants opt to undertake the French language test to earn a skilled work visa for Canada. This country aims to maximize fees collected from international students and minimize the number of onshore graduates who are eligible for a permanent residency visa.
Ahern, Eligible international students who graduate in Australia are required to pass an English language test to qualify for permanent residency Australian Government, IELTS repeatedly use examiner fraud to cull the number of international students who are eligible to immigrate to Australia after they complete their onshore studies and are no longer profitable to exploit.
It should also desist from its hypocritical behavior of criticizing human rights violations that are ostensibly perpetrated by other nation-states. At present, the Australian Government is an Arch human rights criminal under the auspices of international law.
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