** IELTS English language exam joint owner IDP Education's IEL.AX shares pares early rise to trade 1.9% higher at A$6.59 by midday in Sydney
** Jefferies highlights a 19% y/y jump in September traffic to IELTS exam's website, based on SimilarWeb data
** While slightly below August's growth, brokerage notes traffic remains robust and well ahead of consensus expectations of a 9% decline for 1H25
** IEL has outperformed the ASX 300 Consumer Discretionary $(GIC)$ sector .AXDKD by 18.2 pct points in the past one month
** Stock is down 47.9% YTD including current session
(Reporting by Kumar Tanishk in Bengaluru)
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