Cambridge IELTS 8, Test 2, Listening Section 1

    Total Insurance Incident Reportlistening answers

    Answer key for Cambridge IELTS 8 Test 2 Listening Section 1, covering both the incident-report form and the damage table.

    Questions 1-10 · 10 marks · 2 question blocks

    Form completion (NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER)

    Questions 1-3

    A place name, a company name and a date. All three are proper nouns or fixed forms, so they are spelled out or repeated in the audio. Capitalisation is not marked, but the letters are.

    QuestionAnswerAlso accepted
    1Milperra
    2First Class Movers
    328 November
    Table completion (ONE WORD OR A NUMBER)

    Questions 4-10

    A table read row by row, so the answers arrive in the order the rows are printed. Three of the seven are amounts or counts (7, 9 and 10), and the cost column is where candidates transpose digits under time pressure. Write the figures as you hear them and check afterwards.

    QuestionAnswerAlso accepted
    4screen
    5bathroom
    6door
    7140
    8leg
    9plates
    1060

    What your score on this section actually tells you

    One section is 10 of the 40 marks in the paper, so it is a sample, not a band score. What it is good for is diagnosis: look at which of the question types above you lost marks in and whether the same type has hurt you before.

    If your errors cluster in one question type, that is a technique problem and it is fixable in a week. If they are spread evenly, it is usually speed — you are running out of time and guessing the last few, which shows up as scattered wrong answers rather than a bad block.

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