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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking test in Punjab, India – January 2014

Thanks to P, an IELTS test taker from India, we have these Speaking questions to share:

Speaking testIELTS test in India

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What subject are you studying?
– Are you interested in this subject?
– Will you stay in touch with your uni friends in the future?
– Let’s talk about children’s activities.
– Which activity was your favorite as a child ? Why?
– What is the difference between children’s activities today and in the past?
– Lets talk about birthdays.
– What do you do on your birthday? Why?
– What did you do on your birthday when you were a child?

Cue Card

Talk about a subject you did not like while studying in secondary school. Please say

– What was the subject ?
– How much time did you spend learning it?
– Explain why you didn’t like it.

Discussion

– What makes a subject interesting in your opinion?
– What can be done for students who find their subjects difficult?
– How can students be encouraged to study with more interest?
– Which subjects students usually find easy?
– Why are these subjects easy and popular?
– Can you expect a bright career with these subjects?
– What do you think which subjects should not be included in the syllabus?

IELTS test in Uzbekistan – January 2014 (Academic Module)

Our kind friend N shared the questions from an IELTS exam in Uzbekistan – here they are:

Listening testIELTS test in Uzbekistan

Section 1. A phone conversation between a woman and an airline representative.

Section 2. A conversation between a student and a professor about the next week’s presentation.

Section 3. A woman talked about her travel to a particular island.

Section 4. A woman talked about the process of printing photographs.

Reading test

Passage 1. About drama study for art students.

Passage 2. About a certain type of Australian parrots.

Passage 3. About different experiments done by several scientists.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given a graph showing the percentage of money spent on health in Japan, Italy, France, Germany and the USA in 2002.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

In many countries it is easy to apply and to get a credit card. However, credit card debt causes many problems and is hard to pay back. Do you think the advantages of credit cards overweight the disadvantages?

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Where do you live now?
– How long have you been living there?
– Do you like living there? Why?
– Do you like taking photos?
– When do you like taking them?
– What kind of pictures do you keep? Why?

Cue Card

Talk about a foreign language that you know and how you learned it. Please say:

– How exactly did you do it?
– Where did you do it?
– Did somebody help you in any way?

Discussion

– Why do you think it is important to learn a foreign language?
– How is it helpful to you to speak a foreign language?
– What is the most difficult part of learning a foreign language for you?
– What is the best way to memorize new words?
– Is it better to learn a new word from translation or by definition?
– Why don’t some people know the language of the society they live in?