Timing: Total 40 Minutes- 30 minutes plus 10 minutes’ transfer time
Questions:
There are 40 questions
A
variety of question types is used, chosen from the following: multiple choice,
matching, plan/map/diagram labelling, form completion, note completion,
table completion, flow-chart completion, summary completion, Sentence Completion & Short -Answer Questions
Test
Parts: There are 4 sections
Section
1 is a conversation between two people set in an everyday social context
(e.g. a conversation in an accommodation agency)
Section
2 is a monologue set in an everyday social context (e.g. a speech about
local facilities or a talk about the arrangements for meals during a conference)
Section
3 is a conversation between up to four people set in an educational or
training context (e.g. a university tutor and a student discussing an assignment,
or a group of students planning a research project)
Section
4 is a monologue on an academic subject (e.g. a university lecture)
Each
section is heard once only
A
variety of voices and native-speaker accents is used
Skills
assessed: A wide range of listening skills is assessed, including understanding
of main ideas and specific factual information; recognising opinions,
attitudes and purpose of a speaker; and following the
development
of an argument
Marking:
Each correct answer receives 1 mark
Scores
out of 40 are converted to the IELTS 9-band scale
Scores
are reported in whole and half bands
