LISTENING

SPEAKING
READING
WRITING
About the IELTS Listening test

You will listen to 4 different recordings and answer 40
questions.
The test takes approximately 30 minutes. You will have an
additional ten minutes to transfer your answers to an
answer sheet
You only hear the audio once.
A variety of voices and native-speaker accents is use.

You will hear conversations and monologues,
with topics ranging from the everyday social
to the academic.
A variety of question types are used,
including multiple choice, form completion,
note completion, summary completion,
sentence completion, and short-answer
questions.
Candidates for IELTS Academic and IELTS
General both do the same listening test

Read the instructions and questions carefully
before you listen.
Try to get an idea of the situation. Who are the
speakers? Where are they? Why are they speaking?
Remember, you will only hear the audio once. You
will need to read, write and listen all at the same
time.
Listen for 'signpost words' such
as however, although and finally. They help you to
anticipate what the speaker will say.

The speaking test takes 11-14 minutes and
consists of an interview with an examiner.


The interview is recorded.

The speaking test has three parts.

Part 2: Individual long turn

Examiner gives you a written task card. You
have 1 minute to think (take notes) before you
have to speak for 12 minutes.

Examiner asks one or two questions at the
end of your talk.


Time Taken: 34 minutes (including1 minute
preparation time)




Part 3: Two-way discussion

Discuss with the examiner more abstract
issues and concepts which are thematically
linked to the topic of your talk in Part 2.


Time Taken: 45 minutes

The reading test is different for IELTS
Academic and IELTS General candidates
3 sections, 40 questions, 60 minutes

1. Academic Reading:
Each section contains one long text. Texts
are authentic and are taken from books,
journals, magazines and newspapers. They
have been written for a non-specialist
audience and are on academic topics of
general interest.



The writing test is different for IELTS Academic and
IELTS General candidates.

1. Academic Writing


Task 1, candidates are presented with a graph,
table, chart or diagram and are asked to
describe, summaries or explain the information
in their own words. They may be asked to
describe and explain data, describe the stages
of a process, how something works or describe
an object or event.


The links below are the practice test papers for
different tests conducted in IELTS.


First the links are for the question papers and
the following links are the answers.

E.g. link no 1 is the question sheet and the link
no 2 is the answer and so on.



1. http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/Li
stening_practice_questions_121012.pdf

2. http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/Li
stening_practice_answers_121012.doc_.pdf

3. http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/R
eading_Practice_1_IELTS_Academic_Questions.pdf

4. http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/R
eading_Practice_1_IELTS_Academic_Answers.pdf
http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/Read
ing_Practice_1_IELTS_General_Training_Questions.pdf

http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/Read
ing_practice_test%20_1_IELTS_General_Training_answers.pd
f

http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/Writi
ng_practice_test_1_IELTS_Academic_questions.pdf

http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/Writi
ng_practice_test_1_IELTS_Academic_Model_Answers.pdf

http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/W
riting_practice_test_1_IELTS_General_Training_Question
s.pdf

http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/
Writing-
practice_test_1_IELTS_General_Training_Model_Answers
.pdf


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