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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS in Russia – December 2009 (Academic Module)

IELTS test in Russia was described by my new friend J., who says she found IELTS-Blog’s updates very helpful in her preparation and therefore decided to help out and share information about her exam. According to S. from Netherlands, their exam was the same. Thank you, J. and S., we all wish you a great score, and here is the exam:

Listening test

Section 1: About a holiday in an Eco-club.
Questions: Filling in the gaps (table completion).

Section 2: A presentation of a tourist company for the new employees.
Questions: Filling in the gaps (pick a word from the list) and multiple choice questions.

Section 3: A conversation between tutor and a student about a missing lecture and her future survey.
Questions: Filling in the gaps, multiple choice questions, table completion, classification.

Section 4: Research on water in Australia.
Questions: Filling in the gaps and multiple choice questions.

Note: the same questions appeared in the IELTS exam in France (General Training ).

Reading test

Passage 1: A text about two groups of people: maximizers and satisfiers.
Questions: Multiple choice, information matching, True/False/Not Given.

Passage 2: A text about history of the cars (description of different car models).
Questions: Information matching, finding information in the paragraphs.

Passage 3: A text about the lanes in the animal world and human society.
Questions: Headings matching, diagram labeling.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)
We had two pie charts which illustrated the average amount of time spent on different media forms in the USA by both the general population and teenagers in 2003.

Writing task 2 (an essay)
More and more people work today in the large cities. Which problems can it cause? How should the governments encourage people to stay in the small regional towns?

Speaking test

Interview
– What is your name?
– Do you work or study?
– Where would you like to work in the future?
– Do you like flowers?
– Where are they usually grown?
– On what occasions people in your country give flowers to each other?

Cue card
Describe something old that your family keep.

Discussion
Questions about museums and keeping things from the past.

Note: These questions were the same as in Speaking test in IELTS in Yagon, Myanmar.

IELTS in the Dominican Republic and USA – December 2009 (Academic Module)

IELTS test in the Dominican Republic was shared by V., whom I am grateful to for remembering the following details. Later on I was told by G. from USA that their IELTS was exactly the same.

Listening test

Section 1: A woman was calling Keffran Activity Center, an outdoor sports center, to ask about their activities like hiking, mountain biking, camping, etc.

Section 2: A man interested in renting some apartments called the person in charge asking for information.

Section 3: A man telling guests at a convention center about the location of restaurants, art exhibitions, etc.

Section 4. A woman was talking about the results of a survey regarding lectures given in universities.
Questions: Multiple choice. These were really long, so you had to listen attentively for the answer. There were also some tricky questions.

Reading test

Passage 1: An article about apes and the threats they face.

Passage 2: How verbal communication has evolved.

Passage 3: An article about climate change affecting the animal kingdom.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)
Write a 150 word report on two graphs that showed the different resources such as wood, water and electricity used to produce 10,000 disposable cups of two types: paper cups and polystyrene cups.

Writing task 2 (an essay)
Many people say that universities focus only on preparing the graduates for better jobs, others say that university studies can benefit widely the individual and the society in which they live. Discuss these two different views and state your opinion.

Speaking test

Interview
– What is your full name?
– Where do you live?
– Tell me about the place where you live.
– Do you think the public transportation system is good where you live?
– Do you like reading? Why?
– What books do you read?
– When do you read?

Cue card
Talk about a recent magazine or newspaper article that you read. You should say:
– where you saw it,
– what it was about,
– why you remembered it.

Discussion
– Do you write letters or emails?
– When was the last time you wrote a letter?
– We’ve been talking about newspaper articles and magazines, what do you think is the future of both?