Listening Practice
IELTS Listening Practice
The real IELTS Listening test has four parts and 40 questions, from an everyday conversation to an academic lecture — and the audio plays only once. Practise one part at a time here under the same rule: listen once, answer as you go, then get your score, an estimated band, and answer-by-answer feedback with the transcript revealed.
Choose a part to practise
Difficulty
The format
How IELTS Listening works
4
Parts · easy to hard
40
Questions · in the real test
1×
Playback · audio plays once
Parts get harder as you go: Part 1 is a two-speaker everyday conversation with form completion, Part 2 a practical monologue, Part 3 an academic discussion between students and a tutor, and Part 4 a university-style lecture. One mark per question; your band comes from your raw score out of 40.
A note on the audio: this practice tool uses your browser's built-in synthesized voice to read an exam-style transcript aloud. It follows the real test's rules — one playback, natural spoken register, answers spoken verbatim — but the voices are synthetic, not studio-recorded actors. Best experienced in Chrome or Edge.
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