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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking questions from Australia – June 2010

IELTS questions from Speaking test were shared by A from Australia. Here is what she remembered:

Speaking test

Interview

– Whats is your full name?
– What do you study or where do you work?
– Do you enjoy your studies or work? Why?

– What do you think of shopping?
– What do you think, are there many big shopping malls in a country nowadays?
– Is it good that the shops are getting bigger and bigger?

Cue card

Tell me from your experience about something that you bought but never used. Please say:
– What was it?
– Why did you buy it?
– Why didn’t you use it?

Discussion

– How do you think people recycle things?
– Do you know how to recycle?

– What do you think of neighbors?
– Do you have a good relationship with your neighbors?
– Is it important to have a good relationship with neighbors? Why?

IELTS test in the UK, India and Syria – June 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS exams in the UK, India and Syria were the same, so we are told by R, S and A. R also said (quoting from her email) “These words are reflecting my gratitude for your exceptional Target Band 7 e-book. I must say that reading tips have played a magic role in my real test, especially mind mapping and speed reading, and I did my best in rest of modules as well”.

Here are the details they collectively remembered:

Listening test

Section 1. About four sites to enjoy a vacation.
Questions: Filling in the gaps in a table and in a summary (using no more than two words or a number), Q1-Q13.

Section 2. About a seminar with a research supervisor, two students were conducting a research into the effect of music on customers in a restaurant.

Section 3. About history and importance of salt.

Section 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. About automation of manufacturing radio chips.
Passage 2. About animals using medicinal plants.
Passage 3. About Biorhythm, Chronology and Time Clocks.

Writing test

Writing Task 1 (a report)

There was a bar chart for comparison of 4 types of waste dumped in the UK, Netherlands, Spain, France and Italy (Burning, Landfill, Biological Treatment and Recycling). We had to compare the 4 types to each other and compare the different ways countries tackle the waste problem in.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

Health services are the basic necessity for a person. Private companies have made the health services quite costly for ordinary individuals. Do the advantages of private health care outweigh its disadvantages?