IELTS test in India – August 2017 – Academic Module

Listening test

Section 1. A lady talked with a person from a real estate agency
Questions: filling in blanks on a personal details form

Section 2. A lady talked about a university
Questions: filling in blanks, multiple choice

Section 3. A student and his tutor talked about a project assignment on extinct species in New Zealand, including the bird Moa
Questions: multiple choice, match characteristics to paragraphs

Section 4. A person talked about the history and evolution of bicycles over the years
Questions: short-answer questions (no more than 3 words), diagram labelling

Reading test

Passage 1. About an oil refinery plant
Questions: multiple choice, True/False/Not Given

Passage 2. About Nicholas Kaldor employment theory. He developed the “compensation” criteria for welfare comparisons
Questions: True/False/Not Given, summary completion

Passage 3. About West African culture and people
Questions: filling in blanks, True/False/Not Given

Writing test

Writing task 1 : a report

We were given two diagrams showing the student accommodation building in 2010 and now. We had to describe and compare changes

Writing task 2 : an essay

In many countries today the numbers of plants and animals are declining. Why is it happening, in your opinion? What can be the solution to this situation