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Old Roast Duck IELTS 3000 Q&A Series: Is Real IELTS Listening Faster than Cambridge? If you pay attention to the feedback of candidates after the IELTS test, you will find that [...]

Old Roast Duck IELTS 3000 Q&A Series: Is Real IELTS Listening Faster than Cambridge?

If you pay attention to the feedback of the candidates after the IELTS test, you will find that students often say that their listening problems are faster than those of Cambridge IELTS, just like listening to rap. So what about the facts? Is the real IELTS listening faster than Cambridge?

Answer: The listening speed in the real test does fluctuate, but most of them are within the normal range. Although sometimes it is faster, it is not exaggerated that some students say it is the same as rap. There are several reasons for this impression:

1. Survivor bias. Only a small number of students give feedback on Weibo after each exam. Most of them did so because they found something worth complaining about. The listening speed is very obvious. In other words, only those who think they can hear and speak quickly will comment, and those who think they are normal will not say anything. In the eyes of the students who did not take the exam, the speed of listening and speaking became faster.

2. Psychological factors. When we practice at ordinary times, we tend to be relaxed. Even if we don't hear clearly in some places, we can give up decisively and listen to the next sentence directly. But in the exam, because I was nervous, I always doubted whether there would be an answer in the place I didn't hear clearly. Because repeated recall takes up a lot of brain resources, it can't process the next sentence in time. Slow step, slow step; Every sentence can't keep up.

3. Change of speaking speed. In order to pursue the authenticity of the IELTS listening test, each recording will be recorded by a different person. Naturally, there will be a difference in speaking speed. If the voice speed of the previous audio is slow, the dialogue or monologue of the next normal voice speed will appear faster.

To sum up, the listening speed in the real IELTS test is sometimes faster than that in Cambridge, but most of them are relatively normal. If you are worried, you can do more Intensive listening , or put the speaking speed at 1.2 times.

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