A2 Key Listening Test 1 Practice 🔊
Complete Test Breakdown
This full-length practice test replicates the actual Cambridge A2 Key Listening exam format. Perfect your skills across all 5 parts:
⏱ Total Time: 30 minutes | 25 Questions
Part 1: Short Conversations
5 Multiple Choice Questions
Identify key information in five short dialogues and choose the matching picture
Start Part 1 PracticePart 2: Note Completion
Gap Fill Exercise
Listen for specific details in a monologue
Start Part 2 PracticePart 3: Long Conversation
5 Multiple Choice Questions
Listen to a dialogue for key information and answer three-option questions
Start Part 3 PracticePart 4: Short Monologues or Dialogues
5 Short Audio Pieces
Identify the main idea, message, gist or topic in short monologues or dialogues
Start Part 4 PracticePart 5: Matching Exercise
5 Item Matching
Listen to a dialogue for key information and match five items
Start Part 5 PracticeAbout the A2 Key Listening Paper
The Listening paper of A2 Key and A2 Key for Schools has 5 parts and 25 questions, and takes 30 minutes, including 6 minutes’ transfer time. Each recording is played twice. Listening is worth 25% of the total marks. Source: Cambridge English – A2 Key exam format.
Tips for A2 Key Listening
- Before each recording starts, read the questions and options so you know what information to listen for.
- Use the first listening to choose your answer and the second listening to check it.
- In multiple-choice parts, speakers often mention more than one of the options. Listen carefully for the one that answers the question.
- In Part 2, write your answers clearly and check your spelling.
- Don’t leave any answers blank. If you are not sure, make your best guess.