Listening practice
IELTS Listening Note Completion practice
Complete notes from the recording.
This page is for doing Note Completion questions: start the drill, then use the routine and the checks below to make each attempt count. For the strategy behind it, read the Note Completion guide.
Practise Note Completion only
15 Note Completion questions from Academic Practice Test 2, with the recording and instructions they were written for. Your answers are saved and marked exactly as in a full section.
- Questions
- 15 questions
- Time
- 32 minutes
A Listening section is one continuous recording, so the drill plays the whole recording — you only answer the Note Completion questions in it.
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What Note Completion looks like on screen
A set of notes — headings, bullet points and short phrases — appears with gaps, and you type the missing words as the recording plays. The notes follow the structure of the talk, and the instruction sets a word limit, such as ONE WORD ONLY.
Where you will meet it
Note completion is typical of Part 4, where one speaker talks on an academic subject, but it can be set in other parts too. The gaps follow the order of the recording, and the answers are often key nouns from the talk.
A routine for doing a set against the clock
Listening sets its own pace: the recording plays once, and there is time to read the questions before each part. The routine is about where your eyes and attention go:
- Use the reading time on the headings; they show how the talk is organised and when it will move on.
- Read the words around each gap so you know which idea comes just before the answer.
- Type each answer as soon as you hear it, then look at the next gap.
- When the talk reaches a new heading and a gap is still empty, leave it — the speaker has moved on.