BEST TIP: EXAM GUIDE FOR IELTS LISTENING

This article is specially designed in order to provide you detail information regarding the each task of the listening as well as the exam pattern along with the different strategies to ace IELTS listening.

In this table, details related to each section is given. Moreover, it should be noted that the total time period for the listening is of 40 minutes in which 30 minutes you listen to the recording and at the last 10 minutes are provided to you to transfer your answers on the answer sheet.

EXAM GUIDE FOR IELTS LISTENING

Let’s have details now:

Section 1 Strategies

Understand the demand of the question. You would be given 30 minutes and in that time you have to understand where are you need to fill the names, date, numbers, every day objects etc.

You should not make a spell error.

If it is asked to mention the name of the place name then it would be spelt in the recording and you should pay attention to the alphabets as sometimes the accent is different.

You should be very familiar with the names of the letters of the alphabet to aid you in spelling what you hear.

Numbers:

You may have to write down a year, phone number, part of an address etc.

remember that ‘O’ can be pronounced ‘oh’ or ‘zero’ when saying a phone number
when talking about money, we typically say amounts in the same way as in the examples below:
£6.50 = six pound(s) fifty / six fifty
4135 = forty -one dollar(s) and thirty-five cents / forty-one thirty-five
most years are pronounced in the same way as in the examples below:

EXAM GUIDE FOR IELTS LISTENING

1885 = eighteen eighty-five

2015 = twenty fifteen

(we put the first two numbers together and then the second two)

except for the years 2000 – 2009, example:

2000 = two thousand

2007 = two thousand and seven or two thousand seven

(we say the year as we would a number)

You can write dates in different ways and still get full marks:

5th March, March 5th, March 3 and 3 March are all considered the same two-word answer

For measurements, you can write either the whole thing or an abbreviation, for example:

50m = 50 meters = 50 meter

EXAM GUIDE FOR IELTS LISTENING

Section 2

What it tests?

Your understanding towards the factual information and your ability to select the correct information from what you hear.

Section 3

What it tests?

Your potential to identify the key features and how they relate to each other. Moreover, it test your ability to identify speakers’ attitudes and opinions.

Section 4

What it tests?

Your ability to follow the speaker’s opinion
Your ability to spell accurately
Your ability to understand and distinguish between different ideas (e.g. causes, reasons, effects, consequences)
Your ability to follow the way the ideas are organised (e.g. main ideas, specific information and attitude)

EXAM GUIDE FOR IELTS LISTENING

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