The IELTS listening has 4 sections; the questions are arranged so that the answers appear in the same order as the listening. The accents used in the listening may include British, Australian, New Zealand and American, but it is mostly British.
The first 2 sections tend to deal with everyday situations, and the last 2 sections tend to deal with education or training. Sections 1 and 3 are dialogues; wherein section 1 could be a dialogue between a tenant and landlord, and section three could be a dialogue between a university student and his professor. Sections 2 and 4 are monologues; section 2 could be the tenant describing the house and lot he’s renting, and section 4 could be the professor discussing about the class he’s teaching.
The 4 sections will take 30 minutes to finish and the test takers will be given 10 minutes to transfer their answers to the answer sheet. You will be given time to read the questions before the section starts, you will then be given time to check the answers, which in reality is hard to do since you no longer have any reference, it will then be a good idea to just read the next set of questions.
The listening test will also feature different types of questions such as multiple choice, diagram labeling, summary completion and sentence completion among others.
For more information about what to expect you can visit the University of Cambridge ESOL Examination website here
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