IELTS Listening Practice Test – Section 3 & 4 Advanced

Question 1: In IELTS Listening, what is the key strategy for Multiple Choice questions where you choose 2 answers from 5 options?

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  Always choose the first and last options
  
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  Listen for words that exactly match the options
  
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  Eliminate options using what you hear and identify what is explicitly stated
  
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  Choose the longest two options
  

Question 2: In IELTS Listening Section 4 (an academic monologue), what do candidates most commonly struggle with?

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  Understanding everyday conversational language
  
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  Keeping pace with the dense academic vocabulary and speed of delivery
  
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  Identifying the speaker’s name
  
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  Understanding questions about numbers
  

Question 3: A student hears: ‘The deadline has been moved forward to the 15th.’ In the answer, should the student write the original deadline or the new one (the 15th)?

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  The original deadline
  
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  The new deadline: the 15th
  
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  Both deadlines
  
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  It depends on the question