Free IELTS Listening Test 23
A person arranges a courier pickup for an urgent parcel delivery, An engineer gives an educational talk to visitors at an onshore wind farm, Three students discuss how to divide tasks and prepare for a group presentation, A lecture on how human memory works, including encoding, storage and retrieval.
- ModuleListening
- Set#23
- Parts4
- AccentsBritish, AU, NA
- Part 1Courier Service
- Part 2Wind Farm Tour
- Part 3Group Presentation
- Part 4Human Memory
Four parts
Test 23 mixes quick-fire information capture (Part 1) with sustained-attention monologue (Parts 2 and 4). The cues come fast in some sections and slow in others — pacing your attention is the skill.
- Part 1 · Courier Service
A person arranges a courier pickup for an urgent parcel delivery
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 2 · Wind Farm Tour
An engineer gives an educational talk to visitors at an onshore wind farm
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 3 · Group Presentation
Three students discuss how to divide tasks and prepare for a group presentation
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 4 · Human Memory
A lecture on how human memory works, including encoding, storage and retrieval
IELTS-style audio part
Question types you'll see
- Form Completion
- Multiple Choice
- Map Labelling
- Matching
- Sentence Completion
- Note Completion
How the practice works
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Test 23.
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About 30 minutes of audio plus 10 minutes for transferring answers, the same as test day. Strict mode runs straight through; Breath mode lets you pause and replay.
British, Australian, and North American voices distributed across the four parts. The mix mirrors the way the real IELTS Listening test rotates accents between conversation, monologue, discussion, and lecture.
No. The page above lists the topics and question types so you know what's coming, but the audio, questions, and answer key only appear once you start a saved practice session. The analysis is more useful when you've taken the test cold.