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December 2011

IELTS test in Israel – November 2011 (Academic Module)

The IELTS exam below was shared by K and S from Israel (thanks to the contributors!)

Listening test IELTS test in Israel

Section 1. Subscription for a membership.

Section 2. Description of the upcoming festival – event name, location, time and special remarks.

Section 3. A student talks to her professor about a work she needs to write about moth in ancient cultures.

Section 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. About new solutions to bury carbon-dioxide. This text included 4 persons and 2 institutions.
Questions: match a statement to a person/institution.

Passage 2. About the influenza and a new device invented in London that suppose to prevent it. A woman used it and became sick anyway. She filed a lawsuit against the company and won the case.

Passage 3. Syntheses – people whose senses are mixed (they hear music while watching numbers and so on).

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We had a bar graph showing 4 car manufacturers and the average time it took them to manufacture a car, in years 1998 – 2002.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Nowadays both scientists and tourists can go to remote natural environments such as the South Pole. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

Speaking test

Interview

Don’t remember.

Cue Card

Describe a journey you took that got delayed. Please say

– Where were you going?
– What kind of transportation have you used for traveling?
– What was the reason of the delay?

Discussion

– Questions regarding public and private transport.

IELTS test in Vietnam – November 2011 (Academic Module)

Our kind friend P from Vietnam has shared the IELTS exam below.

Listening test IELTS test in Vietnam

Section 1. A phone call to register for a wedding ceremony.
Questions: filling in blanks, short-answer questions (no more than X words).

Section 2. A discussion between professor and a student about her assignment and various interests of other students.
Questions: multiple choice.

Section 3. A lecture about electrical transport.
Questions: multiple choice, diagram / map labeling.

Section 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. About bushfires in California.
Questions: filling in blanks, True/False/Not Given, match headings to paragraphs.

Passage 2. Fingerprints in art.
Questions: filling in blanks, match headings to paragraphs.

Passage 3. Innovation in producing some ideas from experts.
Questions: True/False/Not Given, match headings to paragraphs.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

Two pie charts showing pollutants damaging the ocean between 1997 and 2007.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Economic growth helps to improve the standard of living. However, some researches show that people in developing countries are happy with this trend; whilst people in developed countries are not happy about it. Explain why do you think this is.

Speaking test

Interview

Don’t remember.

Cue Card

Talk about a job that helps to make the world a better place. Please say

– What job is it?
– Where did you learn about it?
– Why do you think it helps so much?

Discussion

– What are the requirements for the person suitable for this job?
– Talk about pollution in your city, including examples.
– How is it possible to prevent it from happening?