IELTS Listening · Computer-delivered

IELTS Listening Practice Test 9: Advice on Surfing Holidays, A School's Extended Hours Childcare, Events Management Skills, Bird Migration

This is IELTS Listening Practice Test 9 on the computer-delivered screen, with 4 parts: Advice on Surfing Holidays, A School's Extended Hours Childcare, Events Management Skills, Bird Migration. You can start it free in your browser — no download.

• About 30 minutes
• 40 questions
• 4 parts

What is in this test

• Part 1

  Advice on Surfing Holidays

  A surfer recommends when to go and which Irish locations suit a beginner, naming beaches and schools.

• Part 2

  A School's Extended Hours Childcare

  A talk for parents on the before- and after-school service, numbers, limits, and the activities on each day.

• Part 3

  Events Management Skills

  A student and tutor agree what matters most in communication, organisation, time management, creativity, leadership and networking.

• Part 4

  Bird Migration

  A lecture on early theories of where birds went in winter, including the hibernation idea and how it was disproved.

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 (more than one answer)
• Multiple choice (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.