Listening Tips:(40mins total)
The IELTS Listening test will take about 30 minutes, and you will have an extra 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
There are 40 questions altogether. Each question carries one mark.For each part of the test, there will be time for you to look through the questions and time for you to check your answers.
When you have completed all four parts of the Listening test you will have ten minutes to copy your answers on to a separate answer sheet.
Before you begin writing answer,Listen to the instructions carefully.
You will be provided with a headphone and a bottle of water in the hall.You need to bring your stationary on your own. Instructions will be provided to you by the staff. In case of any query raise your hand simply,don't call them or talk to other students.The staff will come near you to listen to your query.If you have any issue in listening to the test audio played for you to check your headphone ,raise your hand.Beforehand the headphone should be checked and the volume be adjusted.
After the recording starts, listen to it very actively.It will start with some instruction and then the actual audio starts.Look for the question in the question paper for the first 10 question or as in the instruction.There is enough time to read the first 10 question.Search for the keywords in the audio you are listening.Try to figure out the answer for the question and jot it down then and there in the question paper.
The audio will give you time to correct your answers but in the meantime look for the next 10 questions and mark the main keywords you need to look after in the audio.Jot down the answer and follow the same step further.The accent may differ in each audio and the speed will increase.The last audio will give you very less time to read the question so its better to utilize the time given to correct the answer in reading the question.You will understand this during practice.
Now after you have completed listening to all audio,you will be provided 10 mins of extra time to copy the answer to answer sheet. Copy the answer very carefully with correct spellings and read the instruction in the question as it might ask us to use only one word or more than two words/number and so on.Match the tense and form of words with the sentence in the question.
