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Recent IELTS exams

Real students tell about their recent IELTS exams: IELTS questions, topics, tasks, answers.

IELTS Speaking test in India – August 2014

Below are the Speaking questions that C was asked in a recent IELTS exam in India:

Speaking testIELTS test in India

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Are you satisfied with the field that you chose?
– When did you meet your best friend?
– How much time do you spend with your friends?
– What type of activities do you usually do together?
– Would you like to have few good friends or many just friends?
– What is your favourite colour? Why?
– Did it change since your childhood?
– Do you wear bright colours more than dull colours?
– What colours would you choose to paint walls in your house? Why?

Cue Card

Talk about something that was made with your own hands for your friend or relative. Please say

– What was it?
– How did you make it?
– What was the response when he/she received it?

Discussion

– What type of hand-made products do people usually give to others? Why?
– Do people prefer to receive expensive gifts instead of hand-made ones? Why?
– Are girls more creative than boys? Why?
– Do you know people that prefer to receive hand-made products? Why?
– Do you think arts or crafts should be taught at schools? Why?
– Do you think it should be a compulsory subject? Why?

IELTS test in the UAE and India – August 2014 (General Training)

IELTS test takers O and S remembered the following details from a recent exam that was the same in India and the UAE:

Listening testIELTS test in the UAE

Section 1. About hotel reservation and trips available around the area.

Section 2. A lecture about chimpanzees, their culture, ability to learn and stages of their development.

Section 3, 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. About Indian legendary heroes.
Questions: summary completion.

Passage 2, 3, 4. Don’t remember.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a letter)

You have been sent by your company to attend a course in a college and you lost the certificate awarded to you. Write a letter to the principal requesting an additional copy of the certificate. Include the following in your letter

– How did you lose the certificate?
– Why is it important for you?
– What do you want the principal to do about it?

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

Some people say that dangerous sports should be banned. Do you agree or disagree? Give your own opinion.

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Where do you work?
– Can you describe your work and the company?
– Why did you choose this job?

Cue Card

Talk about a place where you stayed away from home. Please say

– Where and what is this place?
– Why did you go there?
– How long have you stayed there?
– How did you feel staying away from home?

Discussion

– Have you stayed at a hotel before?
– Do you think people like to stay at hotels? Why?
– What are the most important things that a good hotel should have?
– Do you think hospitality jobs are desirable?
– Do you think the hotel industry should be regulated? Why?