IELTS Academic practice
IELTS Academic is usually taken for university study and some professional registration. Listening and Speaking are shared with General Training; Reading uses longer academic passages and Writing Task 1 asks you to describe a chart, table, process or map.
Practice sets
- True / False / Not Given · Multiple choice · Sentence completionAcademic Reading 1: Bees in the city
- Matching headings · Multiple choice · Short answerAcademic Reading 2: Drinking the sea
- Yes / No / Not Given · Summary completion · Multiple choiceAcademic Reading 3: Sleep and memory
- True / False / Not Given · Matching information · Short answerAcademic Reading 4: Timber skyscrapers
- Multiple choice · Yes / No / Not Given · Sentence completionAcademic Reading 5: Saving a language
- True / False / Not Given · Matching features · Summary completionAcademic Reading 6: The smallest pollution
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (bar chart): How people travel to work
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (line graph): Electricity from renewable sources
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (pie charts): Household spending
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (table): International visitors
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (process): Recycling glass bottles
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (maps): Changes to a village
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (bar chart): Daily internet use by age
- IELTS AcademicTask 1 (line graph): Coffee and tea sales
- IELTS AcademicTask 2 (opinion): Online learning
- IELTS AcademicTask 2 (discuss both views): City or countryside?
- IELTS AcademicTask 2 (advantages/disadvantages): Working from home
- IELTS AcademicTask 2 (problem/solution): Traffic congestion
- IELTS AcademicTask 2 (two-part question): Mass tourism
- IELTS AcademicTask 2 (opinion): Free university education
- IELTS AcademicTask 2 (opinion): Raising the retirement age
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