IELTS Listening · Computer-delivered

IELTS Listening Practice Test 1: Town Map and Shops, Noise Pollution, Remote Work Studies, Convicts in Colonial Australia

This is IELTS Listening Practice Test 1 on the computer-delivered screen, with 4 parts: Town Map and Shops, Noise Pollution, Remote Work Studies, Convicts in Colonial Australia. You can start it free in your browser — no download.

• About 30 minutes
• 40 questions
• 4 parts

What is in this test

• Part 1

  Town Map and Shops

  A tourist is shown round a small town centre: you label places on a map, then match each thing the visitor wants to the shop that sells it.

• Part 2

  Noise Pollution

  A talk on where urban noise comes from, the levels health bodies recommend, and the steps taken to bring it down.

• Part 3

  Remote Work Studies

  Two research studies on working from home are compared: productivity, stress, costs and how long each study ran.

• Part 4

  Convicts in Colonial Australia

  A lecture on convicts transported to Australia and on Aboriginal Australians, their citizenship and their beliefs.

Question types in this test

This test uses 5 of the Listening question types. Each one links to what it asks for and the mistakes that cost marks:

• Note and sentence completion
• Form and table completion
• Multiple choice (more than one answer)
• Map and plan labelling
• Matching

Timing and marking

The recording runs for about 30 minutes and plays once. You type while it is still playing. At the end of the computer-delivered test you get two minutes to check what you wrote, not the ten minutes the paper test gives you for copying answers.

There are 40 questions, one mark each, so your raw score is out of 40. The results screen shows which questions you got right, grouped by question type, so you can see where the marks went.

What is different on a computer

You type your answers into boxes while the audio plays, so spelling is on you — there is no spell-check. The volume control and the question navigator are on screen.