IELTS sample test questions
Language tests · British Council, IDP IELTS and Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Practice with answersIELTS Academic, IELTS General Training
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Official sample tasks for every part of IELTS Academic and General Training, with answer keys, transcripts and marked writing samples.
Before you rely on itThese are sample tasks, one per question type, rather than whole past tests. Listening and reading run in an online player, with the answer keys as PDFs beside them.
Before paying for any IELTS course, see every question type exactly as the test sets it, and check yourself against the official keys and the examiners’ comments on real writing.Telebem editors
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- Exams
- IELTS Academic, IELTS General Training
- What you get
- Official practice testsWritten by the exam’s own setters for practice, not sat as a real exam.
- Answers or mark schemesKeys, mark schemes, worked solutions or sample answers.
- Listening audioThe recordings for the listening papers.
- How you get in
- Free to downloadOpen to anyone, no account needed.
- Subjects
- Languages
- Where it’s set
- International
- Languages
- English
- Formats
- Web · PDF
- Set by
- British Council, IDP IELTS and Cambridge University Press & Assessment
What we checked
- Details checked
The exam body, the address and the archive page were opened and checked against each other. Last run .
- Access confirmed
What is published, what is held back and for how long was read from the exam body’s own statement. Last run .
- Paper opened
An editor downloaded a real paper from it, and its answers where there are any, and opened them. Last run .
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