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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking test in Iran – October 2010

IELTS Speaking questions below were shared by H from Iran (thank you!)

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Let’s talk about your hometown. What do you think is special about it?
– How can you improve your hometown?
– How has it changed compared to the past?
– Let’s talk about the weather. What kind of weather do you have in your city?
– What kind of weather do you like and why?

Cue Card

Describe a fascinating job that you heard about, please say
– where you heard about it,
– what kind of job it was,
– what fascinated you, and
– explain why you thought it was fascinating.

Discussion

– Was the job in question a well paid job?
– How the working conditions in your country have changed in recent years?
– What was the cause of the change?
– What benefits in your opinion do workers need, apart from salary?
– Does working too much have any influence on family life?

IELTS test in Vietnam – October 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS exam was shared by H from Hanoi, Vietnam (thanks!), here is what we know:

Listening test

Section 1. A conversation between a man, who wanted to register for a camping site, and a female officer.

Questions: filling in the gaps in a registration form (name, address and a telephone number), filling in the map some information about the camping site, multiple choice question (multiple answers) about the 3 activities available.

Section 2. A man was providing information about a charity organization.

Questions: table completion, sentence completion.

Section 3: A discussion between Simon and Anna about a course in International Relation studies.

Questions: multiple choice questions (one answer only), multiple choice question (multiple answers), matching 4 given courses with their associated benefits.

Section 4. A university lecturer was talking about business ethic.

Reading test

Passage 1. How to become an expert?
Questions: flow chart completion, T/F/NG, summary (sentence completion).

Passage 2. Antarctic’s climate change.
Questions: Matching information, multiple choice question (single answer), T/F/NG.

Passage 3. History and Movies.
Questions: Matching information, Y/N/NG.

Writing test

Writing Task 1 (a report)

There were 4 pie charts describing the results of a survey by a university about the opinion of full-time and part-time students about its services (the services were IT support offered and opening hours).

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

Pollution and other environmental damage are inevitable results when a country is developing and growing its wealth. To what extent you agree or disagree?