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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking test in India – September 2019

V. recently took the IELTS Speaking test in India and below are the questions she remembered:

Speaking testIELTS test in India

Part 1 (Interview)

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What do you do for a living?
– Where do you live now?
– Describe your home.
– What is your favourite room there?
– Do you like to help others?
– Why do you do it?
– Do you have many friends?
– Did you ever borrow a book from your friend?

Part 2 (Cue Card)

Describe a person you know who helps others. Please say

– Who is this person?
– Why does he/she do it?
– How does he/she usually help others?

Part 3 (Discussion)

– Name a few jobs that help people.
– Should they be paid better, in your opinion?
– What are some volunteering jobs in your country?
– Who should teach children to share and care, parents or teachers?
– Why do you think so?
– Should students teach other students?
– Do you believe that? Why?
– Do doctors deserve higher salaries compared to others? Why or why not?

IELTS test in the Philippines – September 2019 (Academic Module)

Three friends recently took the IELTS test in the Philippines and remembered the following topics and questions:

Listening testIELTS test in the Philippines

Section 1. A1 furniture Services.
Questions: filling in blanks, identify information, multiple choice.

Section 2. Field trip to Mexico.
Questions: multiple choice, select information.

Section 3. Behavioural ethics history.
Questions: filling in blanks.

Section 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. About the history of society (including tribes, chiefdom, early state style, etc).
Questions: True/False/Not Given, identify information.

Passage 2. About dating of fossils.
Questions: matching headings, matching information to scientists’ opinions.

Passage 3. A text on risk taking.
Questions: True/False/Not Given, multiple choice.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given a line graph describing three types of crime (car theft, house burglary and street robbery) in England and Wales from 1970 to 2005.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

School and university students learn lessons far better from their teachers than from other sources, such as the Internet and television. To what extent do you agree or disagree?