IELTS Listening Practice Test 40

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to book a calligrapher to write wedding place cards and a seating plan, a curator's talk to volunteer stewards before a museum's music gallery reopens, with the gallery to label, two students and their tutor on a case study of job-sharing in a council office, and a lecture on Brunel's SS Great Britain, from its stranding in Ireland to its rescue from the Falklands. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 32 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.