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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking test in the UK – April 2012

The Speaking questions below were shared by E from the UK (thank you!)

Speaking test IELTS test in the UK

Interview

– Can I see your ID?
– Could you tell me your full name, please?
– Do you work or study?
– What subject do you study?
– Have you always wanted to study it?
– What is your favorite subject?
– Do you know your neighbors?
– Did your neighbors help you in any way?
– Would you prefer to have young or old people as neighbors?

Cue Card

Describe a shop that impressed you. Please say.

– Where is the shop?
– How did you learn about it?
– What do they sell?
– Why were you impressed so much?

Discussion

– Did your friends like the shop?
– What things do people buy for special occasions in your home country?
– Are men or women better at shopping for special occasions?
– Do you think that advertisements can make people buy things they do not need?
– Is there a difference between how young and old people shop?

IELTS test in the UK – April 2012 (Academic Module)

Our kind friend E from the UK shared this IELTS exam (thank you!)

Listening test IELTS test in the UK

Section 1. A teacher was talking to a father about his daughter and classes she can attend.
Questions: multiple choice, match statements to courses, short-answer questions (no more than 1 word).

Section 2. A woman was giving some instructions to the students who are going to work in a museum.
Questions: multiple choice, short-answer questions (no more than X words), map labeling.

Section 3. Students talked about their university. One of them was giving some advice about a future dissertation to the other.
Questions: diagram labeling, multiple choice.

Section 4. A tutor was giving instructions to the students about what things they should do before and after they start their assignment.
Questions: short-answer questions (no more than X words).

Reading test

Passage 1. Air pollution by airplanes and ways to reduce it.
Questions: Match statements to paragraphs, True/False/Not Given, match a person’s name or organization to their statement.

Passage 2. Malaria in Italy. About the false information that people had in the past and how the cure was found. Very similar to the passage from this exam.
Questions: filling in blanks, short-answer questions (no more than X words), multiple choice.

Passage 3. About how some mistakes can contribute to making great things. There were a few examples, first how was the recipe of cornflakes found, second how saccharin (sweetener) was invented. The text suggested that modern businesses do not accept these mistakes and regard them as not eligible.
Questions: multiple choice, True/False/Not Given.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We had a bar graph showing the prices of imported clothes into the European Union from 7 different countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, Bangladesh and so on. They were showing prices in Euro per 1 kilogram of clothes, from 1997 to 2003.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Some people think that museums should entertain people, while others believe that the purpose of museums is to educate. Discuss both views and give you own opinion.