IELTS Listening Practice Test 29

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to book a photographer for a family's outdoor photo shoot, a guide's talk aboard an old sailing ship that is now a museum, with its main deck to label, two students and their tutor weighing up the evidence behind claims about cold-water swimming, and a lecture on the living root bridges of Meghalaya in north-east India. 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.