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Want to get ready for your IELTS Academic exam? Practising with an IELTS Academic practice test is the best way to understand the format, improve your timing, and boost your score.
With IDP, you can access official IELTS Academic practice tests for all four sections — Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking — with answers for self-checking.
Why Take IELTS Academic Practice Tests?
Experience the real test format
Practice under timed conditions
Identify strengths and weaknesses
Review with official model answers
IELTS Academic Listening Practice Test (with Answers PDF)
Duration: 40 minutes | Questions: 40
Includes conversations, monologues, and lectures.
Free Listening Tests:
Note completion: Play Audio | Download answer
Plan, Map, Diagram labelling: Play Audio | Download answer
Multiple choice (more than one answer): Play Audio | Download answer
Multiple choice (one answer): Play Audio | Download answer
Short answers: Play Audio | Download answer
Table completion: Play Audio | Download answer
Sentence completion: Play Audio | Download answer
Flow chart completion: Play Audio | Download answer
Familiarisation test: Play Audio | Download answer
IELTS Academic Listening Practice
IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test (with Answers PDF)
The IELTS Academic Reading test has 3 long passages, 40 questions, and 60 minutes. Topics are drawn from books, journals, and newspapers, often accompanied by diagrams or charts.
Free Reading tests:
Matching feature: Question | Download answer
Matching sentence endings: Question | Download answer
Sentence completion: Question | Download answer
Summary completion (select words from text): Question | Download answer
Summary completion (select from a list of words): Question | Download answer
Note completion: Question | Download answer
Identifying information (True/False/Not Given): Question | Download answer
Multiple choice (more than one answer): Question | Download answer
Multiple choice (one answer): Question | Download answer
Table completion: Question | Download answer
Familiarisation test: Question | Download answer
IELTS Academic Reading Practice
IELTS Academic Writing Practice Test (with Answers PDF)
Duration: 60 minutes
Task 1: Describe visual information (chart/graph/diagram).
Task 2: Write an essay (250+ words).
Free Writing tests:
IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 practice test 1: View Task | Download answer
IELTS Academic Writing Task 2 practice test 2: View Task | Download answer
Familiarisation test 3: Writing demo
IELTS Academic Writing Practice
IELTS Academic Speaking Practice Test (with Answers PDF)
Duration: 11–14 minutes
Format: Introduction, Cue Card, Follow-up Discussion
Free Speaking tests:
Speaking Part 1 practice test 1: Prompt | Recording | Transcript
Speaking Part 2 practice test 2: Prompt | Recording | Transcript
IELTS Academic Speaking Practice
Tips to Use IELTS Academic Practice Tests Effectively
Take full tests under exam conditions.
Time yourself for each section.
Review answers with the official key.
Repeat weak areas until you improve.