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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 – January 2010

IELTS Speaking test in Kuwait was shared by U., who says that the rest of his exam was exactly like IELTS in India. Here is what he was asked:

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your name?
– Do you work or study?
– What do you like in your work?
– Which subject in this work do you like and why?
– Would you like to continue your work in this firm?

Cue card

Talk about a mechanical or electronic piece of equipment you would want to buy, you should say:
– What is it?
– Why do you want to buy it?
– Who told you about it?
– What other features would you want to have in it?

Discussion

– How is education and technology related?
– What is the effect of technology on society?
– Tell me about a specific situation where technology has affected the society.

IELTS test in India – January 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS test in Hyderabad, India was shared by U. (thank you!), who managed to remember the following information about the Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking tests:

Listening test

Section 1: A student was asking for information on accommodation in the UK.

Reading test

Passage 1: The tourism industry.

Passage 2: About a natural water purification system.

Passage 3: Different viruses in the world.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)
We had a table about 3 USA states in 2000, four figures per state: age group 18 or below (percentage), age group 65 and over (percentage), average income and people below poverty line (percentage).

Writing task 2 (an essay)
Scientists are warning about the need to save energy for the sake of the environment, yet some people don’t care enough to change their habits. Why haven’t those people changed? What kind of activities should we adopt to encourage those people to change?

Speaking test

Interview
– Tell me your full name.
– Are you a student / a worker?
– How did you spend your last week?
– Are weekends really necessary?
– How the weekends are helpful to you?
– What do you think about your neighbors?
– Did you ever need a neighbor’s help? What for?
– What kind of relationship do you have with your neighbors?