IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 4
Booking a place on an evening pottery workshop, a wetland nature reserve's visitor information talk, a tutorial on designing a psychology questionnaire, and a lecture on synaesthesia.
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Start IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 4The four parts
What's in this test
Part 1
Booking a Pottery Workshop
Form & note completion
10 questions · 720 words
Part 2
Wetland Haven Nature Reserve Visitor Information
Multiple choice + matching
10 questions · 718 words
Part 3
Designing a Psychology Questionnaire
Multiple choice
10 questions · 1,064 words
Part 4
Synaesthesia: A Glimpse into the Interconnected Brain
Sentence & summary completion
10 questions · 728 words
Try one
A sample question from Part 2
This one question is answerable here with no sign-up — it is worth zero marks and isn't recorded anywhere. The real test has 40 of these behind a one-play recording.
What is the main role of the Visitor Centre?
About this test
How many questions are in IELTS 20 Academic Listening Test 4?
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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