IELTS Listening · Computer-delivered

IELTS Listening Practice Test 2: Health Club Membership Form, A Time Management Presentation, Living in Darwin and a Job Interview, How Fossils Form

This is IELTS Listening Practice Test 2 on the computer-delivered screen, with 4 parts: Health Club Membership Form, A Time Management Presentation, Living in Darwin and a Job Interview, How Fossils Form. You can start it free in your browser — no download.

• About 30 minutes
• 40 questions
• 4 parts

What is in this test

• Part 1

  Health Club Membership Form

  A member answers questions about her occupation, membership type and which facilities she uses, and suggests improvements.

• Part 2

  A Time Management Presentation

  Two students plan a talk on time management: the outline, the common problems to mention and the advice to give.

• Part 3

  Living in Darwin and a Job Interview

  First what surprises visitors to Darwin and how people there get around, then an interview about why a candidate wants a new job.

• Part 4

  How Fossils Form

  A lecture on what makes a fossil likely to survive, using trilobites and T-Rex as the two examples.

Question types in this test

This test uses 3 of the Listening question types. Each one links to what it asks for and the mistakes that cost marks:

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

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.