IELTS Listening Practice Test — Free Section 1–4 Audio & Answers

IELTS Listening Practice Test — Free Sections 1–4 with Audio and AnswersTake free IELTS Listening practice tests covering all four sections: Section 1 everyday conversation with form completion, Section 2 monologue with map and plan labelling, Section 3 academic discussion with multiple choice, and Section 4 academic lecture with sentence completion. Every test rotates British, American, Australian and New Zealand accents and gives instant answers with band-level explanations.IELTS Listening strategy guideIELTS Academic Listening has four sections, 40 questions, and 30 minutes of audio plus 10 minutes transfer time. Sections 1 and 3 are conversations; Sections 2 and 4 are monologues. Difficulty rises section by section.Accent rotationThe real test rotates four accents — British (UK), American (US), Australian (AUS), and Canadian (CAN). Our Listening player mirrors that rotation so you do not over-train on a single accent. Australian short vowels (especially in numbers and dates) and British r-dropping are the two highest-loss accent features for non-native ears.Question types

Form, note, table, summary completion — Section 1 and 4. Spelling is graded; one wrong letter costs the mark.

Multiple choice — Section 2 and 3. Distractors usually paraphrase the wrong option using a synonym you would expect to be correct.

Matching — Section 3. Speakers often disagree mid-sentence; the final speaker stance is what counts.

Map/plan/diagram labelling — Section 2. Practice the orientation language: "next to," "opposite," "at the far end of," "on your right as you enter."

The pre-listen 30 secondsBefore each section the audio gives you 20–30 seconds to read the questions. Use that window to predict what kind of word goes in each gap — a number? a noun? a date? a place name? Candidates who predict word-class score 1–2 bands higher than those who only read the gap surface.The most common loss: transcription errorsYou hear the answer but write it down wrong — wrong spelling, missing plural, missing capital letter for a proper noun. The transfer-time strategy collected in our wrong-answer notes targets exactly this loss.Power IELTS — power-ielts.com