IELTS Listening · Computer-delivered

IELTS Listening Practice Test 12: A Camera Club Membership Form, Picking Wild Mushrooms, The Luddites and the Future of Work, Space Traffic Management

This is IELTS Listening Practice Test 12 on the computer-delivered screen, with 4 parts: A Camera Club Membership Form, Picking Wild Mushrooms, The Luddites and the Future of Work, Space Traffic Management. You can start it free in your browser — no download.

• About 30 minutes
• 40 questions
• 4 parts

What is in this test

• Part 1

  A Camera Club Membership Form

  A new member gives his address, how he heard about the club and why he is joining, then the competitions are listed with the feedback he received.

• Part 2

  Picking Wild Mushrooms

  A talk on which warnings about picking mushrooms are real and which common beliefs are wrong.

• Part 3

  The Luddites and the Future of Work

  Students give opinions on the Luddites, say which predictions about work they doubt, and comment on six jobs.

• Part 4

  Space Traffic Management

  A lecture on a proposed air-traffic-control system for satellites and the legal gaps it would have to fill.

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:

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

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.