IELTS Listening Practice Test 42

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to book a beginners' sea-kayaking course, the chair of a community trust's talk on the day a cinema reopens, with its ground floor to label, two engineering students and their tutor on speed humps and other ways of calming traffic on one street, and a lecture on the history of the metric system. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 33 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.