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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS test in the UK – April 2022 (Academic Module)

Our friends N.Z. and A.T. took their Academic IELTS tests in the UK and collectively remembered the following questions:

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given a table describing the percentages of student satisfaction with 3 different subjects.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

In some countries the percentage of 15 year-olds in the population is already significant and is continuing to grow. Are there more advantages or disadvantages to this trend?

Speaking test

Part 1 (Interview)

– Can you tell me your full name, please?
– What can I call you?
– Where did you grow up?
– Did you have a good childhood?
– Did you have many friends as a child?
– Did you go to parks often?
– Do you like visiting parks now?
– What do you like better, to visit a park or someone’s house?

Part 2 (Cue Card)

Talk about a walk, a boat tour or a bicycle trip that you would like to take. Please say

– where you would go
– when you would go
– who you would go with
– and explain why you would like to take this walk/trip/tour.

Part 3 (Discussion)

– Do you think that traffic is the main contributor to CO2 emissions?
– Do you think this will get better or worse in the future? In what way?
– What can the government do to reduce CO2 emissions?
– How about individuals, what can they do?
– Do you think that city planners take the needs of pedestrians sufficiently into consideration?

IELTS Speaking test in Ghana – April 2022

P.A. from Ghana remembered the following questions from her IELTS Speaking test:

Speaking test

Part 1 (Interview)

– What is your name?
– Do you work or study?
– Where are you from?
– What is the weather like in your country?
– Do you prefer cold or hot weather?
– Do you think people should be able to choose the weather they like?

– Have you gotten lost?
– Have you ever had to help someone who was lost?
– Do people in your country help people who have lost their way?

Part 2 (Cue Card)

Talk about something interesting that you would like to know more about. Please say

– what it is
– why it is of interest to you
– how you plan to find out more about it
– and explain why it is important that you learn more about it.

Part 3 (Discussion)

– How do people get information in your country?
– How reliable is the information in your country?
– Has information people used to get in the past changed nowadays? In what way?