Practice
Original, full-length practice sets. Start one to enter the exam room.
Listening
31 sets · Live
Listening — Taster Sessions, Food Parcels and the Return of the Tram
A full-length Listening test: booking a table-tennis taster session by phone, a welcome talk for food bank volunteers, two students planning a geography presentation, and a mini-lecture on the history of urban tram networks.
Listening — A House Move, the Lido Reopens, a Water Filter and the Bogs
A full-length Listening test: a telephone quote from a removals company, a radio talk about the reopening of a restored outdoor swimming pool, a tutorial on an engineering group's rainwater filter prototype, and a lecture on peatlands and carbon.
Listening — Market Stalls, a Working Lighthouse and the Making of Trusted Money
A full-length Listening test: booking a stall at a village farmers' market, a guide's welcome talk at a lighthouse visitor centre, two psychology students and their tutor redesigning a sleep study, and a lecture on how coins and banknotes came to be trusted.
Listening — Storage Units, a Library of Things, Runners and the Care of Textiles
A full-length Listening test: a telephone enquiry about renting a self-storage unit, an introductory talk to new members of a community tool-lending scheme, a supervision meeting about a study of hydration in amateur runners, and a lecture on how museums conserve textiles.
Listening — Lost Property, Halewick Water, Canteen Food Waste and Why Cities Flood
A full-length Listening test: reporting a bag left on a coach, a warden's welcome talk at a wetland nature reserve, two students and their tutor planning a food-waste study in the university canteens, and a lecture on why cities flood and what sustainable urban drainage does about it.
Listening — A Campsite Pitch, the Orchard Year, a Dialect Survey and the Lit Street
A full-length Listening test: a telephone call to a campsite about a pitch for a campervan, an induction for new helpers at a village fruit orchard, two linguistics students reworking a dialect survey with their tutor, and a lecture on the history of street lighting.
Listening — Swimming Lessons, a Climbing Wall, a Hand-Hygiene Audit and the Archaeology of Rubbish
A full-length Listening test: a parent enrolling a child in swimming lessons, an induction talk at an indoor climbing centre, two nursing students and their tutor reviewing a hand-hygiene audit, and a lecture on what archaeologists learn from rubbish.
Listening — The Village Hall, the Green Bikes, a Usability Test and the History of Exams
A full-length Listening test: a call to the parish office about hiring a village hall, a talk to new members of a town bicycle hire scheme, two computing students and their tutor reviewing an app usability test, and a lecture on where written examinations came from and why they have lasted.
Listening — Airport Parking, an Open Evening at the Telescope, a Questionnaire and Recorded Sound
A full-length Listening test: a phone booking for a space in an airport car park, an astronomer's introduction to an observatory open evening, two business undergraduates and their supervisor repairing a market-research questionnaire, and a lecture on the development of sound recording.
Listening — An Allotment Plot, the Tip, an Oral History and the Rise of the Supermarket
A full-length Listening test: an enquiry about joining an allotment waiting list, a manager's briefing on using the household recycling centre, two history students planning an oral-history project with their tutor, and a lecture on how the supermarket changed shopping.
Listening — Registering with a Dentist, the Valley Line, a Classroom Study and the First Fingerprints
A full-length Listening test: a telephone call registering as a new patient at a dental practice, a talk about a restored steam railway, two education students planning a classroom observation study with their tutor, and a lecture on the history of identification and fingerprints.
Listening — Hiring a Car, the Fenner Street Darkroom, River Sediment and Digging Tunnels
A full-length Listening test: a telephone booking with a car hire firm, an introductory talk at a community darkroom and photography studio, two geology students replanning their river fieldwork with a tutor, and a lecture on how tunnels are dug.
Listening — Evening Classes, a Craft Market, a Daylight Study and Beekeeping
A full-length Listening test: a phone enquiry about evening classes at an adult education centre, a briefing for new stallholders at a weekend craft market, two architecture students reworking a daylight study of a school, and a lecture on the history and science of beekeeping.
Listening — A Card Gone Missing, a Hostel Welcome, a Rocky Shore Survey and the Story of the Lifeboat
A full-length Listening test: a phone call to a bank about a missing card and an unrecognised payment, a warden's welcome talk at a youth hostel, a tutorial on a marine biology rocky shore survey, and a lecture on how rescue at sea became an organised service.
Listening — Looking After the House, Community Radio, a Footbridge and Invasive Species
A full-length Listening test: a phone call arranging house-sitting and pet-feeding for a family going away, an induction talk for new community radio volunteers, a tutorial on a student footbridge design, and a lecture on why a small minority of introduced plants become invasive.
Listening — Office Catering, a Cookery School, a Campus Energy Audit and Vaccines
A full-length Listening test: a telephone order for catering at an office event, an opening talk at a cookery school, two students and their supervisor replanning the energy audit of a university building, and a lecture on the history of vaccination and the cold chain.
Listening — A Charity Fun Run, the Wood Workshop, a Commuting Survey and How Letters Travelled
A full-length Listening test: entering a charity fun run by telephone, a briefing for new users of a community woodworking workshop, two sociology students replanning a commuting survey with their tutor, and a lecture on how letters were physically moved and sorted.
Listening — Pantomime Costumes, a Makerspace Induction, a Pendulum Rescued and the Dictionary
A full-length Listening test: a telephone call to hire costumes for an amateur pantomime, an induction evening at a shared workshop, two physics students salvaging a pendulum experiment with their tutor, and a lecture on how the dictionary came to be.
Listening — Booking the Dog In, the Mill That Still Turns, a Box That Failed and Reading the Ground
A full-length Listening test: a telephone booking at a boarding kennels, a guide's talk at a windmill still worked by volunteers, a tutorial on a student packaging project that failed its drop tests, and a lecture on how earthquakes are measured, located and warned about.
Listening — A Lock-Up Garage, the Aquarium Welcome, a Gait Study and the Piano
A full-length Listening test: taking on a lock-up garage at a yard, a welcome talk at a small aquarium and sea-life study centre, a supervision meeting about a gait study, and a lecture on the piano.
Listening — Booking a Photographer, Dinghy Sailing Rules, a Mock Trial and the Story of Sand
A full-length Listening test: a telephone call booking a photographer for a milestone birthday, a club officer running through the rules of dinghy sailing, two law students preparing a mock trial with their tutor, and a lecture on the world's appetite for sand.
Listening — Winter Caravan Storage, an Archery Club, a Dairy Farm Audit and the Circus
A full-length Listening test: a telephone booking for winter caravan storage, a briefing for new archery club members, two veterinary students planning a livestock welfare audit with their tutor, and a lecture on the history of the circus.
Listening — A Skatepark Course, a Cooperative Brewery, an Audience Survey and the Potato
A full-length Listening test: a telephone enquiry about a holiday skateboarding course, an induction talk for volunteers at a member-owned brewery, two music students and their tutor redesigning an audience survey, and a lecture on what the potato did to Europe.
Listening — Booking Driving Lessons, a City Farm Briefing, Testing a Stream and the Story of Salt
A full-length Listening test: telephoning a driving school to book a block of lessons, a coordinator's briefing for new volunteers at a city farm, two chemistry students replanning the water-quality testing of a local stream with their tutor, and a lecture on how salt was produced and traded and why it mattered.
Listening — Hiring a Marquee, an Outdoor Sculpture Park, a Bat Survey and How Avalanches Work
A full-length Listening test: booking a marquee for a garden party by telephone, an introductory briefing at an outdoor sculpture park, two ecology students planning an ultrasonic bat survey with their tutor, and a lecture on how avalanches start and how people are protected from them.
Listening — Changing the Locks, a Toy Library Induction, Bus Punctuality Data and the Cork Oak
A full-length Listening test: ringing a locksmith to change the locks on a newly bought house, an induction evening for new volunteers at a community toy library, two statistics students analysing bus punctuality data with their tutor, and a lecture on how cork is harvested and used.
Listening — Registering a Kitten, a Botanic Garden, Village Test Pits and Ciphers Before Computers
A full-length Listening test: a telephone call to register a new kitten at a veterinary practice, an orientation talk for visitors to a botanic garden, two archaeology students planning a two-day test-pit excavation with their tutor, and a lecture on how secret messages were made and broken before the computer.
Listening — A Veg Box Round, Marshalling a Bike Race, Designing a Feeder Trial and Where the Chicken Came From
A full-length Listening test: a telephone enquiry about joining a weekly fruit and vegetable box round, a briefing given to marshals before an amateur road race for cyclists, two zoology students and their tutor designing a garden feeder trial, and a lecture on where the chicken came from and how it reached the rest of the world.
Listening — An Armchair Re-covered, Museum Stewards, a Helmet in the Wind Tunnel and the Theatre Building
A full-length Listening test: a telephone enquiry about repairing and re-covering an old armchair, a briefing for new volunteer stewards at a local history museum, two engineering students planning wind-tunnel tests of a bicycle helmet with their tutor, and a lecture on the theatre building from open-air stages to modern playhouses.
Listening — Booking a Chimney Sweep, Volunteer Town Guides, a Green Roof Experiment and Counting the People
A full-length Listening test: a telephone call to book a chimney sweep before winter, a talk for would-be volunteer walking-tour guides, two botany students reviewing plant survival on a green roof with their tutor, and a lecture on how the census began and what it revealed.
Listening — Booking a Weekly Cleaner, Hedgehog Rescue Volunteers, a Line-Following Robot and the Story of Chocolate
A full-length Listening test: a telephone call arranging a weekly house-cleaning service, an induction talk for new volunteers at a hedgehog rescue centre, two robotics students preparing a line-following robot for a competition with their tutor, and a lecture on cacao and how chocolate became a food.