Full-length practice test
The real three-part order — Part 1 Speaking & Writing → Part 2 Reading → Part 3 Listening. On test day you can’t go back a part, and Listening audio plays once. Reading, Listening and the writing tasks are scored; the five speaking tasks are recorded practice you self-review, because the real test machine-scores your pronunciation and fluency.
A short text appears. You have prep time, then read it aloud clearly and at a natural pace.
Urban planners increasingly argue that walkable neighbourhoods do more than reduce traffic: by placing shops, schools and parks within a short distance of homes, they encourage the kind of daily, unplanned social contact on which a sense of community quietly depends.
You hear a sentence once, then repeat it exactly. (Read this aloud once, look away, and say it back.)
The library extends its opening hours during the final week of every term.
An image (chart, map or graph) appears. Describe what it shows in detail.
Picture a bar chart titled “Average monthly rent by city, 2026”: five bars rising left to right — Halifax lowest, then Ottawa, Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver highest, roughly double Halifax. Describe the trend, the extremes, and the overall message.
You hear (or read) a short lecture, then re-tell it in your own words.
Short lecture to re-tell: “Coral reefs cover less than one per cent of the ocean floor, yet they support around a quarter of all marine species. When water warms even slightly, corals expel the algae that feed them and turn white — a process called bleaching. Repeated bleaching, scientists warn, is now outpacing the reefs’ ability to recover.”
You hear a short question with an obvious one- or few-word answer. Answer immediately.
What do we call the frozen form of water that falls from the sky in winter?
Many people believe that online learning is as effective as traditional classroom learning. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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When companies first allowed employees to work from home, many managers feared productivity would collapse. Instead, several large studies found that remote workers completed more tasks per week than their office-based colleagues, partly because they lost less time to commuting and casual interruptions. However, the same studies noted costs that only appeared later: new employees learned more slowly without experienced colleagues nearby, and workers reported weaker ties to their teams. As a result, many organisations have settled on hybrid schedules, hoping to keep the focused hours of home working while restoring the mentoring and social connection of the office.
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Read the passage and answer the question.
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, yet they cover less than one percent of the ocean floor. Rising sea temperatures cause corals to expel the algae living in their tissues, a process known as bleaching. Without these algae, corals lose their main source of food and often die.
Read the passage and answer the question.
Urban beekeeping has grown rapidly over the past decade, with rooftops and balconies across many cities now hosting hives. Supporters argue that city bees benefit from the wide variety of flowering plants in parks and private gardens, which often bloom across a longer season than rural crops. However, some ecologists caution that adding too many managed honeybee colonies can place pressure on wild pollinators, such as solitary bees, which must compete for the same limited supply of nectar. They suggest that cities should focus less on installing more hives and more on planting diverse, flower-rich green spaces that support all pollinating insects.
Read the passage and answer the question.
When a volcano erupts, it can affect the planet's temperature far beyond the area around the eruption. Large eruptions inject sulphur dioxide high into the stratosphere, where it reacts to form tiny droplets that linger for months or even years. These droplets reflect a portion of incoming sunlight back into space, producing a modest but measurable cooling of the global surface. Ash, by contrast, falls back to the ground relatively quickly and has little lasting effect on climate. The cooling influence eventually fades as the droplets gradually settle, allowing temperatures to return to their previous levels.
Read the passage and answer the question.
The introduction of standardised shipping containers in the mid-twentieth century transformed global trade in ways few predicted at the time. Before containers, goods were loaded onto ships piece by piece, a slow and labour-intensive process that left cargo vulnerable to damage and theft. The metal box, identical in size everywhere, allowed cranes to move freight quickly between ships, trucks and trains without repacking. This sharply reduced the cost of moving goods, making it economical to manufacture products in one country and sell them across the world. Many historians now regard the container as one of the quiet engines of modern globalisation.
Read the passage and select ALL statements that are supported by it.
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, yet they cover less than one percent of the ocean floor. Rising sea temperatures cause corals to expel the algae living in their tissues, a process known as bleaching. Without these algae, corals lose their main source of food and often die.
Read the passage and select ALL statements it supports.
Urban beekeeping has grown rapidly in many cities over the past decade. Rooftops, balconies, and community gardens now host hives that supply local honey and help pollinate nearby plants. Supporters argue that the practice reconnects city dwellers with nature and raises awareness about declining insect populations. However, some ecologists caution that crowding too many managed honeybee colonies into a small area can intensify competition for the limited flowers available in cities. When honeybees dominate the scarce food supply, wild bees and other native pollinators may struggle to find enough nectar, potentially reducing their numbers rather than protecting them.
Read the passage and select ALL statements it supports.
The invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe gradually reshaped daily life. Before clocks, people measured time loosely by sunrise, sunset, and the ringing of church bells. As public clocks appeared in town squares, communities began to organise work, markets, and meetings around fixed hours rather than the changing position of the sun. This new precision suited the growing towns, where merchants and craftsmen valued punctuality. Over time, the shared sense of standardised hours encouraged habits of scheduling that would later prove essential to industrial workplaces, where coordinated shifts depended on everyone agreeing on exactly what time it was.
Read the passage and select ALL statements it supports.
Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, yet they shelter roughly a quarter of all marine species. These reefs are built by tiny animals called polyps, which deposit calcium carbonate to form hard skeletons over thousands of years. Reefs protect coastlines by absorbing the force of incoming waves, and they support fishing and tourism industries worth billions of dollars. Unfortunately, rising sea temperatures can cause coral bleaching, in which stressed polyps expel the colourful algae living in their tissues. Without these algae, the coral loses its main source of food and may eventually die if warm conditions persist for too long.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Today, a queue forms outside its doors every morning.
- Word of its excellent coffee soon spread across the town.
- At first, only a handful of curious locals stopped by.
- A new café opened on Main Street last month.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- It was only a decade later that other scientists turned his discovery into the first mass-produced antibiotic.
- Although he published his findings, he lacked the means to purify the compound for medical use.
- Curious about this effect, he isolated the substance the mould produced and named it penicillin.
- Among the neglected dishes, he noticed that a stray mould had killed the bacteria growing around it.
- In 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find his laboratory in disarray.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- If the heat persists and the algae do not return, the starved corals eventually die, and the reef collapses.
- When the surrounding water grows too warm, however, the stressed corals expel these algae and turn ghostly white.
- The algae supply the corals with food through photosynthesis, while the corals offer them shelter and nutrients.
- This abundance depends on a partnership between the corals and tiny algae that live inside their tissues.
- Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, yet they shelter roughly a quarter of all marine species.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- The resulting material can then be returned to gardens and farms, enriching the soil rather than warming the planet.
- One practical response is composting, which lets organic matter decompose with air instead.
- Because of this, wasted food contributes a surprising share of the emissions driving climate change.
- In reality, buried scraps break down without oxygen and release methane, a gas that traps far more heat than carbon dioxide.
- Most people assume that the food they throw away simply rots harmlessly in a landfill.
Choose the word that best fits each blank.
Regular exercise the risk of heart disease and can also mood by releasing endorphins.
Choose the word that best fits each blank.
When a honeybee discovers a rich patch of flowers, she does not simply fly back and lead her hivemates to it. Instead, she performs a remarkable routine on the vertical surface of the comb known as the waggle dance. By walking in a straight line while rapidly shaking her body, then circling back to repeat the movement, she conveys two crucial pieces of information at once. The angle of the straight run relative to vertical tells the other bees the direction of the food in relation to the sun, while the length of time she spends waggling indicates how far away the food lies. The more vigorous her performance, the richer the source she has found. Through this elegant code, a single forager can recruit dozens of others to a location she alone has visited.
A honeybee that finds flowers does not lead others there but instead performs a on the comb, using the angle of her run to signal direction and the duration of her waggling to how far the food is, while a more vigorous dance a richer source.
Choose the word that best fits each blank.
In the early 1670s, a Dutch cloth merchant named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek began grinding tiny glass lenses of extraordinary quality. Though he had no formal scientific training, his curiosity led him to examine droplets of pond water, rainwater, and scrapings from his own teeth under these single-lens instruments. To his astonishment, he saw countless minuscule creatures swimming and tumbling in the liquid, organisms far too small for the unaided eye to detect. He called them animalcules. When he described these findings in letters to the Royal Society in London, many members were sceptical, for no one had reported such a hidden world before. Eventually, however, his careful observations were confirmed, and Leeuwenhoek is now remembered as one of the founders of microbiology.
Although he lacked any formal scientific , Leeuwenhoek used his finely ground lenses to reveal a world of tiny organisms he named animalcules; the Royal Society at first received his reports with , but his observations were later confirmed.
Choose the word that best fits each blank.
Cities around the world are increasingly turning to rooftop gardens as a practical response to rising temperatures. When a building's flat roof is covered with soil and plants, the vegetation absorbs sunlight that would otherwise be soaked up by dark surfaces and released as heat. This cooling effect can lower the temperature of the surrounding air, easing the so-called urban heat island that makes city centres noticeably warmer than nearby countryside. Beyond cooling, these green roofs soak up rainwater that would otherwise rush into overwhelmed drains, and they provide habitat for insects and birds in places where greenery is scarce. The chief obstacle remains cost, since older buildings often need structural reinforcement before they can bear the added weight of soil and water.
Rooftop gardens help the urban heat island because plants absorb sunlight instead of letting dark surfaces release it as heat, and they also rainwater that would otherwise flood city drains; their main is the cost of strengthening older buildings.
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Listen and type the sentence exactly as you hear it.
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Listen to the recording and answer the question.
Listen to the recording and answer the question.
Listen to the recording and answer the question.
Listen to the recording and answer the question.
Listen to the recording and select ALL correct options. Wrong selections lose points.
Listen to the recording and select ALL correct options. Wrong selections lose points.
Listen to the recording and select ALL correct options. Wrong selections lose points.
Listen to the recording and select ALL correct options. Wrong selections lose points.
You will hear a recording. Type the missing word in each blank exactly as you hear it.
The community garden project began with just six and a single vacant lot. Within two years it had spread to five , supplying fresh to a local shelter every week.
You will hear a recording. Type the missing word in each blank exactly as you hear it.
Before the mill closed in the 1950s, this riverside town depended almost entirely on production for its livelihood. Workers walked from nearby cottages every morning, and the factory marked the rhythm of daily life. Today, the old brick building has been converted into a heritage that preserves photographs, machinery, and oral from that era.
You will hear a recording. Type the missing word in each blank exactly as you hear it.
Volunteering at the community shelter taught me more about than any classroom ever could. Every weekend, a small team of us sorted donated clothing, prepared meals, and listened to residents share their . It was exhausting at times, but the on people's faces reminded us why consistent, reliable matters so much to those in need.
You will hear a recording. Type the missing word in each blank exactly as you hear it.
Opening a savings account is often the first step toward building financial . Most banks require identification, proof of address, and a minimum opening . Once the account is active, customers can set up automatic transfers, monitor online, and gradually accumulate . Understanding these basics early helps young adults avoid unnecessary fees later on.
Listen to the recording, then choose the summary that best matches it.
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Listen to the recording, then choose the summary that best matches it.
Listen to the recording, then choose the summary that best matches it.
You will hear a recording. At the end, the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Choose the option that best completes the recording.
You will hear a recording. At the end, the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Choose the option that best completes the recording.
You will hear a recording. At the end, the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Choose the option that best completes the recording.
You will hear a recording. At the end, the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Choose the option that best completes the recording.
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