The Listening test is the same for Academic and General Training. It lasts about 30 minutes and contains four parts with 10 questions each (40 questions in total). Each correct answer is worth one mark, and your final score is reported as a band in whole or half bands (e.g. 5.5 or 7.0).

You hear each recording only once. The questions follow the same order as the information in the recording, so the answer to question 1 comes before the answer to question 2, and so on. The four parts increase in difficulty:

The recordings feature a range of native-speaker accents, including British, Australian, New Zealand and North American, as well as common international accents.