IELTS Listening Practice Test 20

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to a boatyard about hiring a narrowboat for a week, a musical director's welcome talk to new members of a community choir, two students and their tutor on whether house plants really clean the air, and a lecture on slime moulds, the brainless organisms that solve mazes and redraw railway maps. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 30 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.