IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 2
Enquiring about gym membership, a park's grand-opening briefing, a university tutorial on the history of public spaces, and a lecture on ecological rewilding.
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Start IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 2The four parts
What's in this test
Part 1
Enquiring About Gym Membership
Form & note completion
10 questions · 667 words
Part 2
Greenwood Park Grand Opening
Multiple choice + matching
10 questions · 929 words
Part 3
Discussing the Public Spaces Project
Multiple choice
10 questions · 832 words
Part 4
Ecological Restoration and the Concept of Rewilding
Sentence & summary completion
10 questions · 725 words
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A sample question from Part 3
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What does Tom initially suggest as a suitable focus for the project?
About this test
How many questions are in IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 2?
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.
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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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