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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS test in Uzbekistan – January 2014 (Academic Module)

Our kind friend N shared the questions from an IELTS exam in Uzbekistan – here they are:

Listening testIELTS test in Uzbekistan

Section 1. A phone conversation between a woman and an airline representative.

Section 2. A conversation between a student and a professor about the next week’s presentation.

Section 3. A woman talked about her travel to a particular island.

Section 4. A woman talked about the process of printing photographs.

Reading test

Passage 1. About drama study for art students.

Passage 2. About a certain type of Australian parrots.

Passage 3. About different experiments done by several scientists.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given a graph showing the percentage of money spent on health in Japan, Italy, France, Germany and the USA in 2002.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

In many countries it is easy to apply and to get a credit card. However, credit card debt causes many problems and is hard to pay back. Do you think the advantages of credit cards overweight the disadvantages?

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 live now?
– How long have you been living there?
– Do you like living there? Why?
– Do you like taking photos?
– When do you like taking them?
– What kind of pictures do you keep? Why?

Cue Card

Talk about a foreign language that you know and how you learned it. Please say:

– How exactly did you do it?
– Where did you do it?
– Did somebody help you in any way?

Discussion

– Why do you think it is important to learn a foreign language?
– How is it helpful to you to speak a foreign language?
– What is the most difficult part of learning a foreign language for you?
– What is the best way to memorize new words?
– Is it better to learn a new word from translation or by definition?
– Why don’t some people know the language of the society they live in?

ELTS Speaking test in Sri Lanka – January 2014

These Speaking questions were shared by H, who took the IELTS test in Sri Lanka:

Speaking testIELTS test in Sri Lanka

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Is the city you come from is a small or a big one?
– How long have you been living there?
– Did you sing as a child?
– Who is your favorite singer? Why?
– How often do you walk?
– Do you walk in the city or in the countryside? Why?
– What should we do to improve walking tracks in cities?
– Do you think you’ll walk more often in the future? Why?

Cue Card

Talk about a house/apartment that you have visited recently and liked. Please say

– Whose house/apartment was it?
– Where is it located?
– Why did you like it so much?

Discussion

– Do you think the government spends a lot of taxpayers’ money to repair old buildings in your country?
– Is it good or bad in your opinion?