IELTS practice test
Full Length IELTS Academic Practice Test 17
A complete IELTS practice test: 85 questions across 4 timed sections, taken under the same rules as the real exam and followed by a full score report.
What is in this test
- Exam
- IELTS
- Test type
- Full-length
- Questions
- 85
- Sections
- 4
- Working time
- 164 minutes
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Easy 24 · Medium 44 · Hard 17
- Explanations
- Included for every question
- Attempts
- Two: your first sitting and one retake
- Access
- 365 days from purchase
Inside Full Length IELTS Academic Practice Test 17
This test holds 85 questions.
Listening
| Task type | Questions |
|---|---|
| Note completion | 16 |
| Form completion | 7 |
| Multiple choice (one answer) | 7 |
| Matching | 6 |
| Short-answer questions | 4 |
Academic Reading
| Task type | Questions |
|---|---|
| Identifying information (True/False/Not Given) | 8 |
| Matching headings | 7 |
| Summary completion (from a list) | 6 |
| Identifying writer's views/claims (Yes/No/Not Given) | 5 |
| Multiple choice (one answer) | 5 |
| Note, table, flow-chart completion | 5 |
| Matching sentence endings | 4 |
Writing
| Task type | Questions |
|---|---|
| Task 1 (Academic) | 1 |
| Task 2 | 1 |
Speaking
| Task type | Questions |
|---|---|
| Part 1: Introduction and interview | 1 |
| Part 2: Long turn (cue card) | 1 |
| Part 3: Discussion | 1 |
Compared with Full Length IELTS Academic Practice Test 16
- 12 fewer Sentence completion questions
- 7 more Form completion questions
- 7 more Matching headings questions
- 5 fewer Flow-chart completion questions
Section by section
- 01Listening30 min
- 02Academic Reading60 min
- 03Writing60 min
- 04Speaking14 min
Each section carries its own timer. Whether you may return to an earlier section is set per exam, following the rule the real test uses.
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