IELTS Listening Practice Test 35

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to book a science entertainer for a child's birthday party, the manager's talk at a donkey sanctuary's open day, two students and their tutor preparing a seminar on 'placebo buttons' such as pedestrian-crossing and lift buttons, and a lecture on bowerbirds and the structures the males build. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 31 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.