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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking test in Bucharest, Romania – September 2013

Our kind friend E shared the Speaking questions asked in a recent IELTS exam in Romania:

Speaking testIELTS test in Romania

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Where do you work?
– Do you consider yourself a patient person?
– What are the benefits of being patient?
– Are people in your country usually patient?
– Do you like advertisements?
– Do you think there is too much advertisement in your country?

Cue Card

Describe the most important (special) photograph that you like. Please say

– When was it taken?
– Who is on that photograph?
– Who took it?
– Why is it so special to you?

Discussion

– What is the role of photographs in the newspapers?
– Do you think photographs of family events must be taken by professionals?
– What photographs are good for advertisement?
– What is better, to send a photograph or a post card?
– What is the most efficient way of communication: e-mail, chat or SMS, in your opinion?

IELTS test in Iran – September 2013 (Academic Module)

An IELTS test taker from Iran (thanks, A!) shared this exam update:

Listening testIELTS test in Iran

Section 1. A conversation between a woman and a school secretary about registering her son in the school.

Section 2. A radio program about hosts helping people in foreign countries.

Section 3. Two students were talking about their assignment on the topic of children’s psychology.

Section 4. A talk about the expansion of a supermarket.

Reading test

Passage 1. An experiment about cognitive ability of animals.

Passage 2. An article about lean manufacturing practices.

Passage 3. An article about methods of teaching science in schools.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given 3 bar charts showing information about air and water temperature in 3 different lakes in Europe in 3 different seasons.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Today’s teaching methods and communication between teachers and students will disappear by the year 2050. To what extent do you agree or disagree?