🎧 IELTS Listening – Full Practice Test 1

All four sections · 40 questions · under exam conditions. The four AllEnglish4U recordings play straight through with the exam’s own reading pauses. You cannot rewind, you cannot pause, and you mark the whole paper at the end – exactly like the real test.

🎧 Academic & General Training📝 40 questions⏱ ~23 min + 10 min transfer📈 Band score included

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Before you press Start

Doing four sections in one sitting is a different skill from doing them one at a time. Most candidates who score well on single sections still lose four or five marks in a full test, and they lose them in Section 4 – because by then they have been concentrating for twenty minutes. That is the thing this page trains.

1. Sit it properly, once. Phone away, door shut, 35 minutes clear. The recording will not stop for you, and there is no rewind button on this page on purpose.

2. Write every answer as you hear it. Do not leave a blank meaning to come back – in the real test you never do. If you miss one, put anything and move on.

3. Use the transfer time. When the recording ends you get 10 minutes, exactly as in the paper test. Check spelling, check singular versus plural, and check you have not written two words where the instruction says one.

4. Already done Practice 1–4 separately? Then leave at least a week before sitting this, or your score will measure your memory rather than your listening. If you have never done them, sit this test first and use the four practice pages afterwards – each one has the full transcript with every distractor marked.

Section 1 – Questions 1–10

A telephone call about joining an evening language course. Complete the form below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Section 2 – Questions 11–20

A head ranger gives a welcome talk to new volunteers at Brackenfield Country Park.

Questions 11–14 – Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Questions 15–20 – Label the plan. Choose the correct letter, A–I. You will not need every letter.

Plan of Brackenfield Country Park. North is at the top. You enter at the main gate at the bottom.

Section 3 – Questions 21–30

Two geography students, Nadia and Callum, discuss the fieldwork report they are writing about a river restoration project.

Questions 21–25 – What do the students decide about each part of the report? Choose FIVE answers from the box, A–H.

A It needs more data.
B It should be made much shorter.
C It should be moved to the appendix.
D It is already finished.
E It should be rewritten by one person alone.
F It needs a graph or chart.
G It should be checked by the tutor before submission.
H It should be deleted completely.

Questions 26–30 – Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Section 4 – Questions 31–40

Part of a university lecture about green roofs. Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

#	Your answer	Correct

Every recording on this page has its own practice page with the complete transcript, the distractors marked in red and the strategy drills. Go to the section that cost you the most marks – not to the whole test again.

📊 How a raw score out of 40 converts to a band

This is the published Academic Listening conversion. General Training uses the same table. One raw mark can be worth half a band around Band 6 – which is why spelling matters.

Raw score	Band	Raw score	Band
39–40	9.0	23–25	6.0
37–38	8.5	18–22	5.5
35–36	8.0	16–17	5.0
32–34	7.5	13–15	4.5
30–31	7.0	10–12	4.0
26–29	6.5	6–9	3.5

Where to go next

Work on the section, not the test. Under 6 marks in Section 1 means spelling and numbers. Under 6 in Section 2 means position words on the plan. Under 6 in Section 3 means you are hearing suggestions as decisions. Under 6 in Section 4 means you stopped to think and never caught up.

🎧 Section 1 – Form completion

🎧 Section 2 – Monologue & plan labelling

🎧 Section 3 – Academic discussion

🎧 Section 4 – Academic lecture

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