IELTS Listening Practice Test 21

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to book a chimney sweep for an old cottage's wood-burning stove, the chair of a pier trust explaining what's where on a restored Victorian pier, two psychology students and their tutor planning an experiment on the IKEA effect, and a lecture on the history of the pencil, from a Lake District valley to space. 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.