First, a few points on the listening section:
Listening purposes include listening for basic comprehension to comprehend the main idea, for pragmatic understanding and connecting and synthesizing information.

Please Note: Contrary to general understanding, comprehension of all details is not necessary. So don't try to get everything in the passage, just what is required to answer the questions.

Description of the Listening Section
Listening materials in the new test include academic lectures and long conversations in which the speech
sounds very natural. Test takers can take notes on any listening material throughout the entire test.
Material : 4–6 lectures, 3–5 minutes long each, about 500–800 words
Questions: 6 questions per lecture
Timing : 60–90 minutes
Also, 2–3 conversations, about 3 minutes long, about 12–25 exchanges, 5 questions per conversation

Possible Lecture Topics:
Academic Lectures examples are a monologue by a professor or an interactive lecture with students.
After the listening material is played, test takers both see and hear each question before they see the answer
choices. This encourages them to listen for main ideas.

There are four question formats in the Listening section:
• traditional multiple-choice questions with four answer choices and a single correct answer
• multiple-choice questions with more than one answer (e.g., two answers out of four or more choices)
• questions that require test takers to order events or steps in a process
• questions that require test takers to match objects or text to categories in a chart
• Note taking is allowed. Re-emphasis – please take notes.

It will include:
• One lecture per test is spoken with a British or Australian accent.
• One new multiple-choice question type measures understanding of a speaker’s attitude, degree of
certainty, or purpose.
• In some questions a portion of the lecture or conversation is replayed so the test taker does not need
to rely on memory of what was said.

In the replay question test takers listen to part of the conversation or lecture again and then answer a question.