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 |
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Reading
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 |
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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.
Academic Writing answer sheets |
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IELTS Writing answer sheet task 1 |
IELTS Writing answer sheet task 2 |
Academic Writing sample script |
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IELTS Academic Writing sample script |