how to practice ielts listening at home
You need official audio, a clock and a blank answer sheet. Download the question paper and answer sheet from the British Council's free practice tests, play the audio once without pausing, and transfer your answers in a single ten-minute block at the end.
You need official audio, a clock and a blank answer sheet. Download the question paper and answer sheet from the British Council's free practice tests, play the audio once without pausing, and transfer your answers in a single ten-minute block at the end. Sit away from a screen so you write on paper as you listen, wear headphones, and keep the phone in another room. Save the noisiest hour of your home for review and transcript reading; keep the timed run for the quietest half hour, because a test taken in comfortable conditions measures your comfort rather than your listening.
Give the quiet hour a fixed shape: two timed runs and three review sessions a week, and never listen to the same test twice within one week. In the review hour, answer only the questions you missed once more before you open the transcript, then read the transcript while the audio plays and mark the word that carried each answer. The pattern that repeats across four tests — missed numbers, lost plurals, losing your place when the speaker changes subject — is your real syllabus, and it is the only thing worth drilling before the next timed run.