Listening Test
Time: 40 minutes
30 minutes of audio, then 10 minutes to transfer your answers.
How the listening paper works
Free IELTS Mock Test
Read the instructions carefully
Sit each paper the way you would sit the real one. The timings below are the official ones; everything else is simply what makes a practice attempt worth marking.
- 1 Print the paper, or write your answers on a separate sheet — do not type them.
- 2 Time yourself strictly and do not pause the clock, even mid-question.
- 3 No dictionary, no phone, no notes. Nothing you would not have in the test centre.
- 4 For Listening, play each audio part once only. There are no replays in the real test.
- 5 Sit Listening, Reading and Writing back to back in one session — that is how the test day runs.
- 6 Transfer your answers within the time allowed. Spelling and grammar are marked.
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Reading Test
Time: 60 minutes
No extra time to transfer answers — write them straight onto the answer sheet.
How the reading paper worksWriting Test
Time: 60 minutes
Two tasks. Give Task 2 roughly 40 of the 60 minutes — it carries twice the marks.
How the writing paper worksSpeaking Test
Time: 11–14 minutes
Record yourself answering, then play it back. You will hear the hesitations you cannot hear live.
How the speaking paper worksGet your answers evaluated, free
Listening and Reading mark themselves against an answer key. Writing and Speaking do not — they are scored against the band descriptors by a trained examiner, and that is the part a practice paper cannot do for you. Send us your completed attempt and we will mark it and tell you the band you are working at right now.
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