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The IELTS exam in India (below) was shared by our kind friend N, who remembered the Writing and Speaking sections.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a letter)

Write a letter to the clothing shop manager and let her/him know about the problem you have noticed with the clothes you bought in from his/her shop, which is located in another city far away from your home town. In your letter

- Explain the problem you noticed.
- Say what you felt when you noticed the problem.
- Explain what you would like the manager to do.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Radio will no longer be able to hold its presence as television and Internet media will replace it very soon. Do you agree or disagree?

Speaking test

Interview

- What is your name?
- Do you work or study?
- What is the nature of business of your company?
- Do you like to write letters or emails?
- Do you use a laptop to write a letter or do you use a pen?
- To whom mostly do you like to write?
- Do you like collecting letters?
- Do you think collecting letters is a good habit?
- Do you live in a village or a city?
- Tell me something about your home town.
- What do you do to keep yourself fit?
- Do you like running?

Cue card

Tell me about a journey you have taken when you were a child, please say

- Where you went
- With whom you visited that place
- How you went there, and
- What you did there.

Did you enjoy your vacation?

Discussion

- Do you like to travel to the same place again?
- What kind of transport do people of your city use mostly?
- Do you think that using motorcycles is a good option for traveling?
- Who do you think travels most, a person from a city or from a village?
- Do you think that standards of transportation will improve in the future?

The IELTS exams in Malaysia and Australia (which turned out to be the same) were shared by our friends S and R. Below is what they collectively remembered:

Listening test

Section 1.About an insurance deal.

Section 2. Rules about throwing out garbage.

Section 3. A student and a lecturer had a conversation on their work and essays.

Section 4. Archeology and detector’s work.

Reading test

Passage 1. Healthy wind – about animals’ self-healing.

Passage 2. Creating managers, Peter Drucker’s work.

Passage 3. About preserving data in the Internet.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given a bar graph showing the percentage of water being used by industries, agriculture and households in four countries (China, USA, Russian Federation and Australia).

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Some think that developing countries should invite large foreign companies to open offices and factories in order to help their economy. However, others feel that foreign companies should be shut out and instead the government should help the local companies to contribute to the economic growth. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Speaking test

Interview

- What is your name?
- Where are you from?
- Do you like dancing?
- When do people dance in your country?

Cue Card

Talk about a job that you would like to do. Please say
- What job is it?
- Why would you like to do it?

Discussion

- Does your current job pay better?
- What is the highest paid job in your country?
- What are the jobs that should be paid better?
- What do you think about career change?
- Is it a good thing to do once in a while?
- When should we change our careers?