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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 – August 2017

When S recently took the IELTS Speaking test in India, he was asked the following questions:

Speaking testIELTS test in India

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Do you like it?
– How hard is your major?
– How do you usually spend your weekends?
– Why did you choose this activity?
– How often do you talk with your friends?
– Do you like spending time with friends?
– What do you usually do together?
– Do you think you’ll make a lot of friends in the future?
– What kinds of things do you have to bring when you go out?
– Do you carry different things in the morning and evening?
– How do you remind yourself not to forget anything?
– Did you ever forget to bring something?

Cue Card

Talk about a well paid job that you would like to have in the future. Please say

– What is it?
– Why do you want to do it?
– How will you achieve it?

Discussion

– Do you think you will be able to get this job?
– What occupations should be paid better? Why?
– Is high salary important when looking for a job?
– What other aspects of a job are important apart from the salary?
– What do you think is important for job satisfaction?
– What should workers do if they are not provided incentives?
– What is important for motivation?
– Does company get any benefits by providing motivation to its workers?

IELTS test in Saudi Arabia – August 2017 (Academic Module)

Our friends took the IELTS test in Saudi Arabia and remembered the following details:

Listening testIELTS test in Saudi Arabia

Section 1. A conversation between a salesman and a lady who wanted to buy a refrigerator.

Section 2. About a charity organization named ‘Eyesaver’.

Section 3. A discussion between a math teacher and two students about a certain book selection.

Section 4. A lecture about restraining bear and red deer populations to save the environment.

Reading test

Passage 1. About desalination plants.

Passage 2. About Australian parrots.

Passage 3. About multi-tasking, its pros and cons.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given two graphs, for 1950 and 2010, showing percentages of people born in and outside Australia, living in cities, towns and rural areas.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Rich countries help poor countries financially to eliminate poverty, but this is not working well. To what extent you are agree or disagree? What are the other factors required to solve this problem?

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What do you do?
– Will you continue your job in the future? Why?
– What do you like the most about your job?
– Let’s talk about neighbors.
– How important are they to you?
– What type of neighbors, young or old, are good to live with in your opinion?
– Did you receive any help from your neighbors?

Cue Card

Talk about a person who helped you with studies or at work. Please say

– Who is he/she?
– How did he/she help you?
– Why did he/she help you?

Discussion

– Do you read magazines?
– What magazine did you read when you were a child?
– What do you think, who reads magazines more, teenagers or adults?
– What is the difference between online and paper magazines?
– Who is a better help at workplace, men or women? Why?