IELTS Listening · Computer-delivered

IELTS Listening Practice Test 8: A Conservation Group's Activities, A Boat Trip Round Tasmania, Veterinary Work Experience, Labyrinths

This is IELTS Listening Practice Test 8 on the computer-delivered screen, with 4 parts: A Conservation Group's Activities, A Boat Trip Round Tasmania, Veterinary Work Experience, Labyrinths. 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 Conservation Group's Activities

  What the group does on the beach and in the nature reserve, and what the next task will be.

• Part 2

  A Boat Trip Round Tasmania

  The trip is described part by part: the lighthouse, the animals that come close to the boat, and the caves.

• Part 3

  Veterinary Work Experience

  A tutor and student discuss placements, then the student gives an opinion on each module of the course.

• Part 4

  Labyrinths

  A lecture on the difference between a labyrinth and a maze, and where the word 'maze' comes from.

Question types in this test

This test uses 4 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)
• Multiple choice (more than one answer)
• 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.