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IELTS General Training Practice Test 50

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 quote form below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

1. Surname: ______

2. Moving from: 14 ______ Way, Reading

3. Moving to: ______

4. Moving date: ______ June

5. Large item: upright ______

6. Estimated price of move: ______ pounds

7. Cost of box delivery only: ______ pounds

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

8. Why does the piano need a four-man team?

9. Which items are insured only if the company packs them?

10. The removal team will arrive at

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. Cost to build the new exhibit: ______ million dollars

12. Time taken to build the exhibit: ______ months

13. Adult entry price: ______ 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 Entry Tunnel

15. The Croc Pit

16. The Lizard Lounge

17. The Venom Room

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

18. Duke and Missy are kept together

19. The Nursery is

20. The Keeper Talk happens at

Part 3

Listen and answer questions 21–30.

21. Why did Grace lose interest in Introduction to Robotics?

22. What is the disadvantage of Sustainable Cities?

23. What does Frank say about the Sustainable Cities reading list?

24. How is Behavioural Economics assessed?

25. What support is available for students who find the maths hard?

26. When does Behavioural Economics take place?

27. What does Grace conclude about the module?

What is the main point about each module? Choose your answers from the list, A-E: A Very large lectures; B Small classes and discussion; C A field trip abroad; D A practical exam; E Only online teaching.

28. Introduction to Robotics

29. Sustainable Cities

30. Behavioural Economics

Part 4

Listen and answer questions 31–40.

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

31. REM stands for ______ eye movement.

32. Rapid eye movement was first carefully documented in the early ______.

33. A full sleep cycle repeats roughly every ______ minutes.

34. The first REM period of the night usually lasts around ______ minutes.

35. REM is sometimes called ______ sleep because brain activity resembles wakefulness.

36. During REM the major muscles become almost completely ______.

37. This muscle paralysis is known as REM ______.

38. People deprived of REM sleep struggle more with tasks involving new ______.

39. Newborn babies spend as much as ______ of their sleep in REM.

40. In adults, REM makes up roughly ______ percent of a night's sleep.

Reading

Section 1: Notices

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 1.

NOTICE A — Riverside Amateur Dramatics: Rehearsal Schedule Change Rehearsals for the upcoming autumn production will move from Tuesday and Thursday evenings to Monday and Wednesday evenings from next week, to avoid a clash with the community hall's newly scheduled Tuesday evening yoga classes, which now occupy our usual rehearsal space at that time. Rehearsal times remain unchanged at 7:30pm to 9:30pm, and the venue also remains the same, the small hall at Riverside Community Centre. Cast members are reminded that the schedule for the final two weeks before opening night will intensify to include weekend rehearsals as well, with a detailed calendar to be circulated separately closer to the time. Understudies are welcome to attend any rehearsal to observe and familiarise themselves with blocking and staging, though should let the director know in advance which specific sessions they plan to attend. Costume fittings will be arranged individually by the wardrobe team over the coming three weeks, scheduled around each cast member's other commitments where possible. NOTICE B — Fernleigh Apartments: Doorstep Delivery Locker Trial A trial of new doorstep delivery lockers will begin next month at the main entrance, allowing couriers to leave parcels securely for residents who are out during the day, addressing a previous common problem of missed deliveries and repeated failed delivery attempts. The trial will run for three months, after which residents will be surveyed on their experience before a decision is made on permanent installation. During the trial period, only ten lockers of varying sizes will be available, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis for each delivery, meaning larger deliveries may occasionally need to be left with the concierge instead if all suitable lockers are already in use. Residents will receive a text message with a collection code once a parcel has been placed in a locker, and uncollected parcels will be removed by the concierge team after 48 hours for safekeeping. Feedback on the trial can be submitted at any time through the building's resident portal.

Questions 1–4. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

1. Why are the drama group's rehearsal days changing?

2. How long will the delivery locker trial run at Fernleigh Apartments?

3. What happens to a larger delivery if all suitable lockers are already in use?

4. How will costume fittings be scheduled?

Questions 5–6. 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.

5. Rehearsal times and venue remain unchanged.

6. Weekend rehearsals will be introduced from the very first week of the new schedule.

Questions 7–8. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A for each answer.

7. Understudies should let the director know in advance which specific __________ they plan to attend.

8. A detailed calendar for the intensified final two weeks will be circulated __________ closer to the time.

Question 9. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A.

9. Who will arrange costume fittings for cast members?

Questions 10–12. 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. Residents will be surveyed on their experience before a decision on permanent installation.

11. There are twenty lockers available during the trial period.

12. The locker trial addresses a previous problem of missed deliveries and failed delivery attempts.

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

13. Uncollected parcels will be removed by the concierge team after __________ for safekeeping.

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

14. Where can residents submit feedback on the trial?

Section 2: Workplace

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 2.

TEXT A — Internal Communications: New Internal Communications Platform A new internal communications platform, replacing the current combination of email newsletters and a rarely updated intranet news page, will launch next month, offering staff a single, more engaging channel for company news, department updates, and social content such as team achievements and charity fundraising results. The platform includes a personalised feed showing content most relevant to each individual's department and location, along with the ability to comment on and react to posts, fostering more two-way engagement than the previous purely one-way broadcast communication model. Department heads will each be trained on creating and publishing content directly to the platform, reducing reliance on central Communications team approval for routine departmental updates. Urgent, safety-critical communications will continue to be sent via the existing separate emergency email and text alert system rather than through the new platform, to ensure such messages are not missed by staff who do not check the new platform regularly. Staff feedback on the platform will be gathered after an initial two-month period to inform any necessary adjustments. TEXT B — Human Resources: Staff Dress-Down Friday Policy Following positive feedback from a recent staff survey, dress-down Friday will be extended to a company-wide policy from next month, allowing smart casual attire every Friday rather than the current arrangement, which varies inconsistently by department. Client-facing staff should still check with their manager if a Friday client meeting is scheduled, as more formal attire may be appropriate on those specific occasions regardless of the general policy. The usual restrictions on sportswear, flip-flops, and clothing bearing offensive material continue to apply on dress-down Fridays as on any other day. Staff are reminded that dress-down Friday does not extend to formal external events, such as conferences or industry dinners, that may occasionally fall on a Friday. The policy will be reviewed after six months based on further staff feedback and any observed impact on the company's professional image with clients and visitors.

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

15. What will the new internal communications platform replace?

16. What prompted the extension of dress-down Friday company-wide?

17. What was the previous arrangement for dress-down Friday, according to Text B?

Questions 18–19. 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. Staff can comment on and react to posts on the new platform.

19. Urgent safety-critical communications will be sent through the new platform exclusively.

Questions 20–21. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A for each answer.

20. Department heads will be trained on creating and publishing content directly to the __________.

21. The platform includes a personalised feed showing content most relevant to each individual's department and __________.

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

22. When will staff feedback on the platform be gathered?

Questions 23–25. 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. Sportswear is permitted on dress-down Fridays.

24. Dress-down Friday extends to formal external events such as conferences.

25. The policy will be reviewed based partly on any observed impact on the company's professional image with clients.

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

26. The policy will be reviewed after __________ based on further staff feedback.

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

27. Who should client-facing staff check with if a Friday client meeting is scheduled?

Section 3: The Global Spread of Coffee Culture

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 3.

Coffee, now among the most widely consumed beverages on the planet and a genuinely central pillar of daily ritual for a substantial proportion of the world's adult population, has a documented history stretching back roughly a thousand years to its first cultivation in the highlands of Ethiopia, from where it gradually spread across the Arabian peninsula and eventually the entire world through a series of historical trade routes, colonial expansion, and, more recently, deliberate and highly sophisticated global corporate marketing strategies. According to a popular and widely repeated, though historically somewhat unverifiable, origin legend, an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi first discovered coffee's stimulating properties after noticing his goats became unusually energetic after eating berries from a certain wild, previously unremarkable shrub. Whatever coffee's precise true historical origin, verified historical records confirm that coffee cultivation and consumption were well and firmly established in Yemen by the fifteenth century, where it was initially embraced specifically by Sufi religious communities seeking a reliably stimulating aid to remain properly alert and focused during extended nighttime prayer and devotional rituals. The coffeehouse as a distinct, purpose-built social institution emerged prominently in the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth century, rapidly and enthusiastically spreading to Europe over the following century, where these establishments, sometimes evocatively nicknamed 'penny universities' in England specifically because the mere price of a single coffee purchased genuine access to extended, often intellectually stimulating conversation and current news, became genuinely significant sites of intellectual and specifically commercial exchange; Lloyd's of London, the now-famous insurance market, and various early stock exchanges both originated in coffeehouses where merchants and financiers regularly gathered specifically to conduct business over coffee. Colonial powers, recognising coffee's substantial and rapidly growing commercial and economic potential, subsequently established large-scale coffee plantations across their various tropical colonial territories, including notably in Brazil, Vietnam, and across parts of Central America, a colonial legacy that has left lasting economic structures still clearly visible in contemporary global coffee production and trade patterns, with the vast majority of global coffee production still concentrated in developing nations while the majority of actual coffee consumption, and considerably more of the resulting economic value captured, occurs predominantly in wealthier importing nations. The more recent, distinctly late-twentieth-century phenomenon of specifically branded coffeehouse chains, most prominently and influentially Starbucks, transformed coffee consumption yet again, deliberately marketing coffee not merely as a simple beverage but as a curated, premium 'experience' and a consistent, reliably branded 'third place' between the more familiar and established social spheres of home and formal workplace, a specific marketing and retail innovation credited by numerous business historians and researchers with substantially driving coffee's continued and remarkably durable growth in wealthy markets even as overall consumption of many other traditional hot beverages, such as ordinary black tea in several historically tea-dominant markets, has measurably and steadily declined over the same broadly comparable historical period.

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

28. Where was coffee first cultivated, according to the passage?

29. What did colonial powers establish across their tropical territories, according to the passage?

30. What has happened to consumption of black tea in several historically tea-dominant markets, 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. The Kaldi goat herder legend is described as historically fully verified fact.

32. Coffee was initially embraced by Sufi religious communities in Yemen for use during nighttime prayer.

33. More of the economic value from coffee is captured in wealthier importing nations than in producing nations.

34. Coffee cultivation and consumption were well established in Yemen by the fifteenth century.

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

35. English coffeehouses were sometimes nicknamed __________ because a coffee's price bought access to conversation and news.

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

36. What famous insurance market originated in a coffeehouse, according to the passage?

37. What concept did Starbucks use to market coffee as a space between home and work?

38. In which century did the coffeehouse emerge as a distinct social institution in the Ottoman Empire?

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. The majority of global coffee production is concentrated in developing nations.

40. Business historians credit branded coffeehouse marketing with driving coffee's continued growth in wealthy markets.

Speaking

Part 1: Introduction and interview

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

Part 1 (Stress / Free time) — the examiner asks about two familiar topics. Topic 1: Stress Q1. What kinds of things make you feel stressed? Q2. How do you deal with stress? Topic 2: Free time Q3. Do you have enough free time? Q4. How would you spend an extra free day each week?
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: 1. Deadlines, mostly. When I've got several projects due in the same week, I start to worry about everything. Crowded places can also make me tense. 2. I go for a run or cook something complicated, because it forces me to concentrate on one thing. Talking it through with a friend usually helps, too. 3. Not really, to be honest. Between my job, my course and housework, I only have about two free evenings a week, and I often feel too tired to enjoy them. 4. I'd go hiking. There are some lovely trails in the hills nearby, but they take a whole day, so I never have the time to explore them.

Part 2: Individual long turn

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

Describe a person you know who is good at organising things. You should say: - who this person is - what kinds of things he or she organises - how he or she does it and explain why you think this person is so good at it. You'll have a minute to prepare before talking about it for one to two minutes.
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: The person I'd like to talk about is my former manager, Sarah, who ran the events team at the hotel where I used to work. She was responsible for planning conferences, weddings and other large parties, sometimes three or four in a single week, and I can't remember a single event that went badly. The way she worked was very methodical. Weeks before an event, she'd draw up a detailed checklist on a big whiteboard, showing who was responsible for each task and when it had to be finished. Every morning she held a ten-minute meeting to check on progress, and if something was late, she'd find a solution rather than blame anyone. She also made a point of thinking about what could go wrong, so she'd always have a backup plan, such as a spare projector or an indoor space in case it rained. I think the reason she was so good at it is that she was calm under pressure. When a delivery of flowers didn't arrive for a wedding, she simply walked to the nearest market and bought what she needed. I learnt a great deal from her about planning ahead and staying positive, and I still use some of her methods.

Part 3: Two-way discussion

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

Part 3 (gender roles at work) — the examiner asks four related questions. Q1. Have attitudes towards men and women in the workplace changed much in recent decades? Q2. Why do you think certain industries are still dominated by one gender? Q3. Should companies be required to have equal numbers of men and women in senior roles? Q4. How might workplace gender equality develop in the future?
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Model answer: 1. Considerably, at least in many countries, with more women now in senior positions and more men taking on caregiving responsibilities, though genuine equality in pay and opportunity still isn't fully achieved everywhere. 2. Partly tradition and partly stereotypes about which jobs suit which gender, which can discourage people from even considering certain careers, regardless of their actual ability or interest in the work. 3. I have mixed feelings; strict quotas can push change faster, but I'd rather see equal opportunity built in from education onward, so senior roles reflect genuine, unforced representation. 4. I think generational change will continue naturally, with younger employees generally expecting more balanced workplaces, which should gradually push traditionally imbalanced industries towards fairer representation.

Writing Task 1

You need to request permission from your child's school for them to be collected early on a specific day due to a family commitment. Write a letter to the school office. In your letter: explain the reason for the request, specify the date and time needed, and confirm who will be collecting your child. 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 homework should be abolished in primary schools, while others think it plays an important role in children's education. 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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