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IELTS General Training Practice Test 44

AI-generated practice paper in the style of IELTS General Training — original material, not a reproduction of any real exam paper, following the official four-module structure (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking). Listening audio is read aloud by your browser's voice, Writing tasks can be scored by AI, and for Speaking you can record yourself and compare with a model answer.

Listening

Part 1

Listen and answer questions 1–10.

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

1. Course chosen: ______ course

2. Date: Saturday the ______ of October

3. Price per person with a friend: ______ dollars

4. Surname: ______

5. Dietary need noted: Sophie is ______

6. School address: ______ Bakery Lane

7. Payment due within: ______ hours

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

8. What is included in the course fee?

9. What might replace dessert if time runs short?

10. What should Frank and Sophie bring?

Part 2

Listen and answer questions 11–20.

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

11. Sunday closing time: ______

12. Wreaths start at: ______ dollars

13. Cost to decorate an ornament at the Kids’ Craft Table: ______ dollars

What does the speaker say about each of the following areas? Choose the correct letter, A-F, for questions 4 to 7.

14. The Wreath Table

15. Pottery Row

16. The Knitwear Corner

17. The Café Area

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

18. Proceeds from the Café Area go toward

19. Santa visits on Saturday from

20. Parking is located

Part 3

Listen and answer questions 21–30.

21. What does Dr. Adams say about the introduction?

22. How much should the students write about the tides?

23. Why did the students record only six squares on the second day?

24. What will they do about the smallest periwinkles?

25. Which instrument did the students use to measure temperature?

26. Which graph will they include in the results?

27. What must they email to Dr. Adams by Friday?

What advice does Dr. Adams give about each section of the report? Choose your answers from the list, A-E: A Include only one figure; B Put extra material at the back; C Admit problems honestly; D Link findings to a course theory; E Finish with a proposal for further research.

28. Discussion

29. Conclusion

30. Appendix

Part 4

Listen and answer questions 31–40.

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

31. Pedestrian bridges must absorb comparatively light but variable and ______ loads.

32. London's Millennium Bridge opened in the year ______.

33. The bridge began swaying because crowds adjusted their walking ______.

34. This feedback effect is formally called synchronous lateral ______.

35. Engineers now often incorporate tuned mass ______ to cancel unwanted vibration.

36. ______ offers excellent strength and can span longer distances.

37. Timber and concrete are chosen for a more traditional, natural ______.

38. Modern regulations increasingly require gentle ramp ______.

39. Ramps help wheelchair users, parents with prams, and ______.

40. Some celebrated bridges have become striking architectural ______.

Reading

Section 1: Notices

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 1.

NOTICE A — Riverside Community Choir: Rehearsal Venue Change Weekly rehearsals will move from the church hall on Vicarage Road to the main hall at Riverside Primary School from next month, as the church hall is being converted for use as a community food bank. The new venue offers better acoustics and more space for our growing membership, though rehearsals will need to end promptly at 9pm to comply with the school's building access agreement, fifteen minutes earlier than the previous finish time. Parking is available in the school car park after 6pm on weekdays, once staff parking has cleared for the day. Members are reminded that the annual subscription fee, due at the start of next term, will remain unchanged despite the venue change, as the new venue's hire cost is comparable to the previous arrangement. Sheet music folders should continue to be collected and returned at each rehearsal rather than taken home, to avoid items being lost during the transition period. NOTICE B — Fenwick Court: Water Meter Installation Smart water meters will be installed in all flats over the coming month, replacing the estate-wide shared billing system with individual, usage-based billing for the first time. An engineer will need brief access to the water shut-off valve inside each flat, typically located under the kitchen sink, and residents will be given at least 48 hours' notice of their specific appointment. The installation itself takes approximately 20 minutes and does not require water to be shut off for more than a few minutes during the process. Residents will receive a letter explaining how to read their new meter and register for the water company's online account portal once installation is complete across the whole building. This change is expected to reduce overall water costs for residents who use less than the current estate-wide average, while higher-usage households may see a modest increase.

Questions 1–3. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

1. Why is the choir rehearsal venue changing?

2. What billing system will replace the estate-wide shared billing at Fenwick Court?

3. Who may see a modest cost increase under the new billing system?

Questions 4–6. Do the following statements agree with the information in Notice A? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

4. Rehearsals will need to end fifteen minutes earlier than before.

5. The annual subscription fee will increase due to the venue change.

6. The new venue offers better acoustics and more space for the choir's growing membership.

Question 7. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A for each answer.

7. Parking is available in the school car park after __________ on weekdays.

Questions 8–9. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A.

8. Where should sheet music folders not be taken, according to the notice?

9. What is the new venue's hire cost compared with the previous arrangement?

Questions 10–11. Do the following statements agree with the information in Notice B? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

10. Water will be shut off for more than a few minutes during installation.

11. Residents will receive at least 48 hours' notice of their appointment.

Questions 12–13. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B for each answer.

12. The shut-off valve is typically located under the __________.

13. Residents will receive a letter explaining how to read their new meter and register for the water company's online __________.

Question 14. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B.

14. How long does the installation itself typically take?

Section 2: Workplace

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 2.

TEXT A — Reward Team: New Performance Bonus Structure The annual performance bonus structure has been revised to introduce three distinct bonus tiers based on both individual and overall company performance, replacing the previous single flat-rate bonus percentage applied uniformly regardless of individual contribution. Employees rated as exceeding expectations in their annual review will receive a bonus of up to 12% of salary, those meeting expectations will receive up to 8%, and those rated as partially meeting expectations will receive up to 4%, with the exact percentage within each band also depending on overall company financial performance for the year. Bonuses will continue to be paid in March alongside the March salary payment, following the completion of annual reviews the previous month. Employees who joined partway through the bonus year will receive a pro-rated bonus reflecting their actual length of service during that specific year. Any employee who disagrees with their performance rating, and consequently their resulting bonus tier, can raise this formally through the standard performance appeal process within two weeks of receiving their review. TEXT B — Facilities: Office Desk Phone Removal Notice Following a review of communication tool usage, desk phones will be removed from individual workstations over the coming month, as internal data shows the vast majority of both internal and external calls are now made through the company's laptop-based softphone application instead. Staff who specifically rely on a desk phone for accessibility reasons, or whose specific role requires very high call volumes, such as certain customer service positions, can request to retain a desk phone by speaking to their line manager. Meeting rooms will retain conferencing phone equipment for group calls, as this is unaffected by the desk phone removal. The softphone application allows calls to be made and received from the laptop itself, using either a headset or the laptop's built-in microphone and speaker. IT will provide brief guidance sessions on using the softphone's full range of features for staff who have not previously used it regularly.

Questions 15–17. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

15. What is the maximum bonus percentage for employees rated as exceeding expectations?

16. Why are desk phones being removed from individual workstations?

17. What can the softphone application use besides a headset?

Questions 18–20. Do the following statements agree with the information in Text A? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

18. The exact bonus percentage also depends on overall company financial performance.

19. Employees who joined partway through the year receive the full bonus regardless of length of service.

20. Annual reviews are completed the month before bonuses are paid in March.

Question 21. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A for each answer.

21. Bonuses will continue to be paid in March alongside the __________.

Question 22. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A.

22. Within how many weeks can an employee raise a formal appeal about their rating?

Questions 23–24. Do the following statements agree with the information in Text B? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

23. Meeting rooms will retain conferencing phone equipment.

24. No staff members are permitted to keep a desk phone under any circumstances.

Questions 25–26. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text B for each answer.

25. Staff who rely on a desk phone for accessibility reasons can speak to their __________.

26. Staff whose role requires very high call volumes, such as certain customer service positions, can request to retain a __________.

Question 27. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text B.

27. What will IT provide for staff unfamiliar with the softphone application?

Section 3: The Strange Science of Motion Sickness

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 3.

Motion sickness, the unpleasant combination of nausea, dizziness, and general malaise experienced by a substantial proportion of people during car, boat, or air travel, presents scientists with a genuinely curious evolutionary puzzle: unlike most physiological reactions, which typically respond in some functionally protective way to an actual physical threat, motion sickness appears to be triggered by a situation involving no genuine physical danger whatsoever, prompting sustained scientific interest in understanding precisely why such an apparently non-adaptive, unpleasant reaction would have evolved and persisted at all. The leading explanation, known as sensory conflict theory, proposes that motion sickness results specifically from a mismatch between different sensory systems' independent reports about the body's current movement and orientation in space. When reading in a moving car, for instance, the inner ear's vestibular system accurately detects the vehicle's actual physical motion, while the eyes, sharply focused on a stationary book held within the vehicle, report to the brain that the body is essentially motionless relative to its immediate visual surroundings, creating a genuine sensory contradiction that the brain, according to this theory, has evolved to specifically interpret as a plausible sign of neurological poisoning or toxin ingestion, since certain naturally occurring plant and animal toxins are known to specifically disrupt normal sensory processing and cause exactly this kind of internal sensory mismatch in affected animals. This 'poison theory' extension of sensory conflict theory, first proposed by psychologist Michel Treisman in the 1970s, suggests that the resulting nausea response, though genuinely unpleasant and functionally counterproductive in a genuinely non-toxic modern travel context such as a car or aeroplane, represents a beneficial evolutionary overreaction, prompting the body to induce vomiting as a precautionary protective measure specifically to expel any potentially ingested toxin, on the general evolutionary principle that a false-positive protective response, though uncomfortable and inconvenient, carries a relatively low biological cost compared with the potentially severe biological cost of a genuine, undetected poisoning left completely unaddressed. Practical interventions for reducing motion sickness symptoms have been developed based substantially on this specific sensory conflict framework: looking directly at a distant, stable horizon while travelling helps meaningfully realign visual and vestibular sensory input, directly reducing the underlying sensory contradiction that triggers the nausea response, which is precisely why passengers are frequently and consistently advised to avoid reading or looking at close-up screens during a bout of motion sickness, and why sitting in the front seat of a car, with a clearer forward view of the actual road ahead, tends to reduce symptoms for many affected passengers compared with sitting in the rear seats. Interestingly, motion sickness susceptibility varies very considerably between individuals for reasons that remain only partially understood by researchers, with children between roughly two and twelve years old generally showing the highest documented susceptibility of any age group, and susceptibility generally declining somewhat with age thereafter, while some individuals, for reasons not yet fully explained, appear to experience little or no vestibular-visual sensory conflict discomfort under any travel circumstances whatsoever. Virtual reality technology has more recently introduced a distinct, closely related, and now separately extensively studied phenomenon termed 'cybersickness,' involving broadly similar underlying sensory conflict mechanisms triggered specifically by a mismatch between visually perceived virtual motion and the physically stationary inner ear's simultaneous, contradictory report of the body's actual real-world stillness.

Questions 28–30. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

28. What genuine evolutionary puzzle does motion sickness present, according to the passage?

29. Which age group generally shows the highest documented susceptibility to motion sickness?

30. Why are passengers advised to avoid reading during motion sickness, according to the passage?

Questions 31–34. Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

31. Sensory conflict theory proposes motion sickness results from a mismatch between different sensory systems.

32. The 'poison theory' was first proposed by Michel Treisman in the 1990s.

33. Susceptibility to motion sickness generally declines somewhat with age after childhood.

34. Cybersickness involves broadly similar underlying sensory conflict mechanisms to traditional motion sickness.

Question 35. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

35. The poison theory suggests nausea prompts the body to induce vomiting as a precautionary __________.

Questions 36–38. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage.

36. What should travellers look at to help realign visual and vestibular input while travelling?

37. What term describes the similar sickness phenomenon triggered by virtual reality?

38. What does the inner ear's vestibular system accurately detect during travel, according to the passage?

Questions 39–40. Do the following statements agree with the writer's claims? Write YES if the statement agrees with the writer's claims, NO if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks.

39. Sitting in the front seat of a car tends to reduce motion sickness symptoms for many passengers.

40. All individuals experience exactly the same level of motion sickness susceptibility.

Speaking

Part 1: Introduction and interview

The examiner asks you questions about yourself and familiar topics (4–5 minutes).

Part 1 (Art / Museums) — the examiner asks about two familiar topics. Topic 1: Art Q1. Were you good at art when you were at school? Q2. Do you like looking at paintings? Topic 2: Museums Q3. How often do you visit museums? Q4. What is the most interesting museum you have been to?
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Model answer: 1. Not really. I enjoyed the lessons, but my drawings always looked a bit childish, and my teacher once told me to stick to painting fences, which wasn't very encouraging! 2. I do, especially landscapes. I'm not an expert, but I like the way a good painting can make you feel as if you're standing in a place you've never been. 3. Perhaps three or four times a year. I usually go when I'm visiting a new city, because it's an easy way to learn about local history. 4. I'd say the maritime museum in Lisbon. There were full-sized ships you could climb aboard, and the guide was so enthusiastic that a two-hour visit felt like twenty minutes.

Part 2: Individual long turn

You have one minute to prepare, then speak for one to two minutes.

Describe a time when you changed your opinion about something. You should say: - what your original opinion was - what made you change your mind - what your new opinion is and explain how you felt about changing your opinion. Take one minute to prepare before speaking for one to two minutes.
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Model answer: I'd like to talk about how my opinion of working from home completely changed over the past few years. Originally, before I'd ever really tried it, I thought remote working sounded lonely and unproductive, and I honestly believed people who worked from home were probably less disciplined and got less done than people in an office. What changed my mind was being forced to work from home myself for several months, initially quite reluctantly, when my company temporarily closed the office. At first it was exactly as awkward as I'd expected, but after a few weeks I noticed I was actually finishing tasks faster, without constant interruptions from colleagues dropping by my desk, and I was saving nearly two hours a day that I'd previously spent commuting. My new opinion is that remote working can genuinely suit certain types of jobs and certain personalities very well, as long as people are organised and communicate clearly with their team. I still think a completely office-free arrangement isn't right for everyone, especially newer employees who benefit from being around more experienced colleagues, but I no longer assume it automatically means lower productivity. I felt a bit surprised at how wrong my earlier assumption had been, and it taught me to be more open-minded before judging things I haven't actually experienced myself.

Part 3: Two-way discussion

The examiner asks more abstract questions linked to the Part 2 topic.

Part 3 (health and lifestyle) — the examiner asks four related questions. Q1. What lifestyle habits do you think most affect people's long-term health? Q2. Do you think people today are less active than in the past? Q3. Should governments do more to encourage healthy eating? Q4. How might attitudes towards health and exercise change in the future?
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Model answer: 1. Diet and physical activity probably matter most, along with sleep, which people often overlook. Chronic stress also has a big long-term impact, even though it's less visible than diet or exercise. 2. Generally yes, especially in cities, since many jobs now involve sitting at a desk all day, and convenient transport means people walk far less than earlier generations did as part of daily life. 3. I think so, through measures like taxing sugary products or making healthier food more affordable, since individual willpower alone often isn't enough against constant advertising for unhealthy options. 4. I imagine preventative health will get more attention, with wearable devices tracking activity and sleep becoming standard, encouraging people to notice unhealthy patterns earlier rather than only reacting once problems appear.

Writing Task 1

You live in a rented flat and would like to ask your landlord for permission to keep a pet. Write a letter to your landlord. In your letter: explain what pet you would like to keep, reassure them about how you will manage any concerns, and ask for their agreement. Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write your own address. Begin your letter 'Dear ...,'

Writing Task 2

Some people believe that printed newspapers are no longer relevant in the digital age, while others think they still serve an important purpose. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.
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