IELTS Listening Practice Test 18

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to a dance studio about lessons for a couple's first dance at their wedding, a hospital manager's talk on the new outpatients building, with the ground floor to label, two sociology students and their tutor on a study of a time bank, where neighbours swap help by the hour, and a lecture on fairy circles, the bare rings that cover the grasslands of the Namib Desert and the argument over what makes them. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 33 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.