IELTS Listening – Task Type 6 – Classification

Task Description

What are candidates required to do?
Candidates have to match a numbered list of items from the listening text to a set of criteria.

What skills are being tested?
This task type is designed to test candidates’ ability to recognize relationships and connections between facts in the listening text, and is most often used with texts dealing with factual information. Candidates need to be able to listen for detail.

Understanding the Task

To see an example of this task type please click on the link below.

Example of Task Type 6

To understand better how candidates need to approach this task, it may help you to do the task yourself and analyse what you had to do to find the right answer.

Look at this sample Task Type 6. Complete the task, thinking about how you are doing it.

Sample Task Type 6 Task (PDF)
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Answers

Things to consider

Now look at these questions about how you approached the task and consider your answers.

1. Did the questions focus on details of the courses, or the speaker's attitudes to them?
   
   
2. Did you have to listen for paraphrases of the three categories given (A – C)?
   
   
3. Could you use the same answer more than once?
   
   
4. Did the information needed for the answers come just from one speaker, or from both?