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IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 1

Booking a hall for a children's party, a festival volunteer briefing, a university tutorial on a social media presentation, and a lecture on green infrastructure in cities.

4 parts · 40 questions · 3,280 words 30 minutesListening Practice SeriesTopics: Everyday Life, Volunteering, Education, Urban Planning

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The four parts

What's in this test

  • Part 1

    Booking the Community Centre

    Form & note completion

    10 questions · 627 words

  • Part 2

    Riverside Arts Festival Volunteer Briefing

    Multiple choice + matching

    10 questions · 960 words

  • Part 3

    Social Media and Youth Identity Presentation

    Multiple choice

    10 questions · 900 words

  • Part 4

    The Role and Challenges of Green Infrastructure in Urban Planning

    Sentence & summary completion

    10 questions · 793 words

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A sample question from Part 3

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1.

What is the primary focus of Chloe and Ben's presentation?

About this test

How many questions are in IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 1?

40, across four parts of 10 marks each, exactly as the real Listening paper is structured. Each part's recording plays once, and you get about 30 minutes in total.

Do I need an account to take this test?

Yes — sitting the guided test requires a free account, so your progress across parts can be saved and resumed. This landing page and the answer key need no account.

Where are the answers?

On a separate page — the answer key for this test lists every correct answer with the reasoning drawn from the transcript, plus the full transcript itself.

Is this a Cambridge IELTS test?

It is written in the same style as the real paper, not taken from a published volume: four parts rising in difficulty, the same question types, and a recording that plays once. Original material written for this library — nobody can legally hand you a scanned past paper.

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