Practice Questions

Boost your score with free sample IELTS questions. The benefits of practice include:

Getting familiar with the question format
Testing yourself and getting used to real time test conditions
Experience tasks similar to test tasks
Compare your answers to model answers

Listening

The Listening test is 30 minutes and consists of 4 recorded conversations. The following IELTS Listening sample tasks are to be used with the answer sheet and MP3 audio files/transcripts. Each answer sheet indicates which recording to listen to, or if a transcript is provided.

Downloadable Speaking Tasks

Listening sample 1 task – Form completion

Listening recording 1

Listening sample 2 task – Multiple Choice

Listening recording 2

Listening sample 3 task – Short Answer

Listening recording 3

Listening sample 4 task – Sentence Completion

Listening recording 4

Listening sample 5 task – Matching

Listening recording 5

Listening sample 6 task – Matching

Listening recording 6

Listening sample 7 task – Plan/Map/Diagram Labeling

Listening recording 7

Listening sample 8 task – Note Completion

Listening recording 8

Listening recording 8 Answer Sheet

Listening sample 9 Task – Short Answer

Listening Recording 9

Listening Recording 9 Answer Sheet

Reading

The Reading test is 60 minutes long, texts for the Reading test are taken from books, journals, magazines and newspapers.

A variety of tasks is used, including: multiple choice questions, identifying information, identifying writer’s views/claims, matching information, matching headings, matching features, matching sentence endings, sentence completion, summary completion, note completion, table completion, flow-chart completion, diagram label completion, short-answer questions.

Downloadable Reading sample tasks

Reading sample task – Matching features

Reading sample task – Table completion

Reading sample task – Flow-chart completion (selecting words from the text)

Reading sample task – Identifying information (True False Not Given)

Reading sample task – Matching headings

Reading sample task – Matching sentence endings task

Reading sample task – Multiple choice (more than one answer)

Reading sample task – Multiple choice (one answer)

Reading sample task – Note completion task

Reading sample task – Sentence completion task

Reading sample task – Summary completion (selecting from a list of words or phrases)

Reading sample task – Summary completion (selecting words from the text)

Writing

The Writing test goes for 60 minutes and consists of two writing tasks. In Task 1, test takers are asked to describe some visual information (graph/table/chart/diagram). In Task 2, test takers are presented with a point of view or argument or problem.

Downloadable Academic Writing samples
Academic Writing sample task 1A
Academic Writing sample task 1B
Academic Writing sample task 1C
Academic Writing sample task 2A
Academic Writing sample task 2B
Academic Writing sample materials and examiner comments

Academic Writing answer sheets
IELTS Writing answer sheet task 1
IELTS Writing answer sheet task 2

Academic Writing sample script
IELTS Academic Writing sample script

Speaking

The Speaking test is conducted over Zoom. You will have a discussion with a certified examiner. It is interactive and as close to a real-life situation. There are three parts to the test, in part 1, you answer questions about yourself and your family, In part 2, you speak about a topic. In part 3, you have a longer discussion on the topic.

Downloadable Speaking Sample tasks
Speaking sample task part 1 – Prompt
Speaking sample task part 1 – Recording
Speaking sample task part 1 – Transcript
Speaking sample task part 2 – Prompt
Speaking sample task part 2 – Recording
Speaking sample task part 2 – Transcript
Speaking sample task part 3 – Prompt
Speaking sample task part 3 – Recording
Speaking sample task part 3 – Transcript

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