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Recent IELTS exams

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

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?

IELTS Speaking questions from the UK – June 2010

IELTS Speaking questions were shared by R (thank you!) and here is what she was asked:

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Are you a student or do you work somewhere?
– Why did you choose your college?
– Do you like reading?
– What do you normally read, a magazine or a newspaper?
– What is the importance of reading today?
– Did you read more when you where younger?

Cue Card

Talk about a healthy activity that you do, please say:
– What activity is that?
– Where do you go to do it?
– Who else is going with you?
– Why did you choose this activity?

Discussion

– Is there any role for school in shaping the healthy lifestyle of a child?
– What is the role of a government in promoting the health of the citizens?
– Did old generation have the same healthy life style in your country?
– How has the climate changed in your country?