IELTS Listening Practice Test 19

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to an upholsterer about re-covering a grandfather's armchair, a talk at the open evening of a community observatory on a hill, two students and their tutor on a university canteen's trial of taking its trays away, and a lecture on the European eel and the century-long hunt for where it breeds. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 34 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.