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IELTS 21 Academic Listening Test 2

Enquiring about a bicycle maintenance course, a halls-of-residence facilities briefing, a tutorial planning a coastal erosion field trip, and a lecture on bioluminescence.

4 parts · 40 questions · 3,428 words 30 minutesListening Practice SeriesTopics: Cycling & Repair, Student Life, Geography, Biology

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The four parts

What's in this test

  • Part 1

    Weekend Bicycle Maintenance Course Enquiry

    Form & note completion

    10 questions · 850 words

  • Part 2

    Halls of Residence Briefing for New Students

    Multiple choice + matching

    10 questions · 872 words

  • Part 3

    Planning a Coastal Erosion Field Trip

    Multiple choice

    10 questions · 974 words

  • Part 4

    Bioluminescence: The Living Light

    Sentence & summary completion

    10 questions · 732 words

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A sample question from Part 2

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1.

What is the main purpose of Sarah's talk?

About this test

How many questions are in IELTS 21 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.

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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