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IELTS Academic 3rd March 2018 Answer Key

mech.bilal

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Feb 24, 2018
46
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Letter was a semi formal one to a hotel manager for arranging a 90th birthday party.
Essay about discussing the advantages and disadvantages of sporting and cultural events.
It was not advantage disadvantages essay. It was an opinion essay. Ideal way to attempt was take a one side. But, if you take both it's still OK but then it become tricky.
 

vishu_5788

Member
Feb 1, 2018
15
2
Nice work, have few things to watch ... It was really tough listening test.

Section1:
Sandwich (spelling)
There is a doubt raised by andy, if the date needs to be 12 January or 12th January

Section 2:
An interview or (just) interview?

Section4:
plural -> Teenagers/Surveys/Friends
Number of OR Number of Children?

I wish there were at least one topic about common subject (most of the folks take this for immigration purpose, american/Canadian topics and accent would be nice) both sections was tied with UK. Pollen was not easy topic to follow. Paying guest also very specific to UK, do not think the same topic makes sense for USA/Canada.
Section 2 needs to be answered by options not written answers it had options given and we had to select from those
 
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Ilmatar

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Mar 4, 2018
2
1
Academical Reading, text #1 about Alex the talking parrot (slightly modified version of this text: http://ieltsmaterial.com/ielts-reading-practice-test-66-with-answer).

First section (T/F/NG):
Memory is considered a higher mental ability - T;
At the start of the experiment Alex was afraid of people - F (or NG, not sure, because it was not mentioned in the text that he dominated in his "flock" since the very beginning);
It took researchers some time to show how similar are the mental abilities of humans and animals (maybe different wording, but the same meaning) - T;
The researcher chose the bird by herself - F;
Alex has already new a lot of words when the experiment began - F (or NG?);
The aim of the experiment was to teach Alex human language - F (or maybe this question was in another section, not t/f/ng, then the answer would be - world, as he had to learn about world).

Choose words from the text:
What was too small that other researchers did not believe Alex would be able to talk - brain.

Some other questions:
How many words has Alex learned by now - one hundred;
Which animals are commonly used in language experiments - chimpanzees;
What was the same in two objects shown to Alex - color;
What mistake did Alex correct in younger birds - wrong pronunciation.

Will try to find the two other texts (about smells and literacy in australian rural areas). :)
 
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mech.bilal

Full Member
Feb 24, 2018
46
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3) Certificate 2 : needs parttime work or something - NG

last section heading:
3) not sure if that temperature - I remember something else - habitat area where they live under the leaf/tree and so on
7) seven - this was also different answer - either predator or something else

you got most of it correct, i believe, may be more than 37...
All the Best!!!
 
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