IELTS Listening Practice Test 12

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to a picture framer about an old map, a signed rugby shirt, a sailor's embroidery and a child's painting, a council officer's talk at the opening of a new skate park and pump track, two education students and their tutor weighing up a scheme in which children read aloud to a dog, and a lecture on earworms, the tunes that get stuck in the head, and what gets rid of them. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 32 min
Marked: Instantly

How should it play?

Exam conditionsPlays once, start to finish, on the real test's timeline: time to read before each part, half a minute to check after it, two minutes at the end. No pause, no rewind.PracticePause, rewind and play a part again as much as you like, read the script as it is spoken, and check your answers as you go. The clock counts up rather than down, and nothing is handed in for you.

The recording sets the pace from the moment you press the button. Nothing plays until you have had time to read.