Recent IELTS exams

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

Update from Academic IELTS exam, Australia

This brief update is from latest Academic IELTS in Melbourne, Australia. Read more latest exam updates here.

Listening topics:

1) Tickets’ booking over the phone
2) Seaside walk
3) Lecture on village life

Reading topics:
1) Bananas
2) Photography
3) Flavor sense

Writing :

Writing Task 1: Compare postgraduate project work in a UK university in 80s,
90s and 2000s on the basis of either they complete it on time, late, rewrote or
failed to write at all

Writing Task 2: Multicultural societies bring more benefit to the country
than drawbacks, discuss.

Speaking:

Interview questions – nothing special

Speech – long talk about a photograph

Discussion – two way discussion of our grandparents

Recent Academic IELTS exam

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Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)
We were given two line graphs, which showed percentages of employment amongst men and women in England from 1993 to 2000.

Writing task 2 (an essay)
In order to learn a new language well one should get to know the culture and the lifestyle of the country where it is spoken. To what extent do you agree with this idea?

Speaking test

Interview

– Can you please show me your ID?
– Do you work or are you a student?
– Where are you studying?
– Do you like it? In what way?
– Have you got many friends? How about close friends?
– What do you do to show you’re a good friend?

Cue Card

Talk about your favorite story as a child.

Discussion

– How did the above story affect you?
– What are the differences between a person in a story/film and in real life?
– What are the characters of actors/actresses in movies that people in your country like?
– What could people learn after watching a film / reading a book?