🎧 IELTS Listening: Question Types and Traps (with Practice Strategies)

This guide explains how the IELTS Listening test is built: four parts, 40 questions, one hearing only. You learn what each part sounds like, how every question type works (form and note completion, multiple choice, matching, map labelling, sentence completion, short answers, summary completion) and the seven traps that cost most candidates marks, from the mid-sentence correction to the rejected option. Spelling, number and word-limit rules are set out in tables, followed by seven self-study practice methods and a 10-step routine to follow on test day. No audio is needed; this is a strategy lesson to use before and between practice tests.