IELTS listening answers, section by section
Every section below links to its full answer key: the answer for each question number, every alternative the official key accepts, and our notes on the dictation traps.
Choose a section
Each page carries the complete key for that block of questions, not a whole test — so you can check the one you just practised.
How to use an answer key without wasting it
Checking answers tells you your score. It does not tell you why you lost the marks, and the score on its own does not move. Before you look at the key, mark up which questions you guessed, which you ran out of time for, and which you were sure about. Only the third category is a real knowledge gap.
Then read the question-type notes on each page. Most candidates lose marks in the same one or two blocks every time — matching headings, or the last five gaps of a Section 4 lecture — and fixing one block is worth more than another full test.
Reading and listening are the two skills you can self-mark. Writing and speaking are not, which is where an examiner-style breakdown against the real band descriptors actually changes the number.
Passage and section names belong to Cambridge University Press. No passage text, audio, or question wording is reproduced here — only question numbers, question types, the answers, and our own commentary.
Know the number. Now move it.
A conversion table tells you where you stand today. Langujet's AI marks your writing and speaking against the real rubric and tells you exactly which criterion is holding your score down.