Skip to content

Recent IELTS exams

Real students tell about their recent IELTS exams: IELTS questions, topics, tasks, answers.

IELTS Speaking test in Vietnam – October 2010

The following speaking questions were shared by H who took his IELTS exam in Vietnam:

Speaking test

Interview

– Where is your hometown?
– What do you think your hometown is famous for?
– Did you learn about your hometown’s history in school?
– Do you think that people learn history in school?
– When was the last time you went to a place where people go to dance in your country?
– Do you like dancing?
– Have you ever learned dancing?
– Why do you think people love to dance?
– How many languages do you speak?
– What languages do you want to study in the future?
– Why do you want to study a foreign language?

Cue Card

Describe the last time when you were last late for an important appointment. Please say
– When did it happen?
– What was the meeting for?
– Why were you late?
– Explain the results of being late for that meeting.

Discussion

– Are you angry with people who are late?
– Do you think that people have less free time today than in the past? Why?
– Do you think that the quality of living is increasing? How?
– Today people use machinery to automate everything, is it good or bad?
– How does modern technology help to save time?
– Do you agree that people should let machinery do everything?

IELTS tests in Turkey and Syria – October 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS exams in Turkey and Syria were the same, so we are told by H and S, who took their tests in these countries. Here is what we know:

Listening test

Section 1. A woman who wanted to book a hotel for her birthday party called to get information about hotels.

Section 2. A female presenter was describing changes in a shopping mall that were related to flowers and different sections in a shop for fertilizers, other gardening supplies, etc.

Questions: there was a map of the mall and we were asked to label locations on the map.

Section 3. A student was describing the resources she used and the problems she had while writing her dissertation. She was providing information about different sections of her thesis.

Section 4. A university lecturer was talking about history of time measurement and different instruments that were used for measuring time with their respective problems.

Reading test

Passage 1. Agriculture and different methods of farming, including agro-chemical farming and genetically modified crops versus organic farming.

Question: filling in gaps, multiple choice questions and Y/N/NG.

Passage 2. Paleontology and a database of fossils and their related problems.

Questions: headings matching and sentence completion.

Passage 3. Memory and different techniques of memorizing things, including history of each technique.

Questions: filling in gaps, multiple choice questions and Y/N/NG.

Writing test

Writing Task 1 (a report)

There was a graph comparing birth and death rates in one European country between the years 1950 and 2010, plus a future prediction in 40 years.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

These days many people leave their county to work abroad and take their family with them. Do you think benefits of this outweigh disadvantages in terms of family development?