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Select the correct answer.

Bob received 7 for his IELTS listening part. Was more than a half of his answers on the answer sheet marked as correct?

Yes

Getting a 7 requires around 30 of 40 answers to be correct.

IELTS

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) is the world's most widely accepted English-language proficiency test for non-native speakers. It scores you on a 0–9 band scale across four sections — Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking — with a band score for each and an overall average.

Universities, employers, and immigration authorities in the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand use IELTS bands to set their language requirements (typically 6.0–7.5 for university; 5.0–6.5 for skilled migration). Knowing the test format is half the battle — most candidates lose points to format unfamiliarity, not language ability.

IELTS Listening

The Listening section of IELTS is 30 minutes plus 10 minutes transfer time, with 40 questions across four recordings: a social conversation, a monologue on an everyday topic, an academic discussion among up to four speakers, and an academic monologue. You hear each recording once — there's no replay — and answer questions ranging from multiple choice and matching to gap-fill and short-answer.

Doing well rests as much on note-taking technique and predicting what's coming as on raw comprehension. Practising under timed conditions with a single play-through is the single most useful thing you can do.