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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking questions from Kuwait – February 2010

The first three modules of IELTS test in Kuwait (namely Listening, Reading and Writing) were the same as in Moscow and Bahrain, so tells us T., and here are the questions he remembered from Speaking:

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– What should I call you?
– Do you work or study?
– What qualification are required to fulfill your job duties?
– How was your first day at work/school?
– Is the first day important at school/work? Why?

Cue Card

Describe a story that is famous in your country. You should say:
– what the story is,
– where and when you heard about it,
– how people in your country know about this story.
– explain why you and your country like this story.

Discussion

– How are traditions and culture important in your country?
– Is there any tradition that your country follows which comes from the old days?
– What are the reasons that people today are not interested in reading or listening to the old stories?

Would you like to stay in a country that:
– has only one season throughout a year?
– has different seasons throughout a year?
Why?

IELTS test in Iran – February 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS test in Iran was shared by S. (thank you!) and here is what we know:

Listening test

Section1: a woman talking to her daughter’s teacher about arranging her classes.

Questions: multiple choice, sentence completion and information matching.

Section 2: someone was talking to tourists.

Questions: multiple choice, sentence completion and information matching.

Section 3: two students talking to a tutor about different books.

Questions: table completion.

Section 4: a woman was describing a conference and introducing people who are going to give speeches on that day.

Questions: table completion.

Reading test

Passage 1: about the change in relationships between parents and children, and the development of parents’ understandings of children.

Passage 2: about malaria disease.

Passage 3: about the oil that leaked into the water because of oil tankers and how to deal with it.

Writing test

Writing Task 1 (a report)
There was a bar chart giving some information about different modes of transportation used by tourists from different nationalities, in New Zealand in 2004.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)
In some countries a number of animal and plant species is declining. What are the reasons? What can be done to solve this problem?