Tutorial: Planning a Student Diet Survey

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Questions

Question 1

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Why did the students abandon their original questionnaire?

The questionnaire was dropped because

A. People remember a whole week's food poorly.B. Questionnaires take too long to write.C. Students refused to answer questions.

Question 2

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

What new risk does the food-diary method introduce?

The food diary risks the

A. Participants may eat more healthily because they are observed.B. Phones may run out of battery.C. Meals may be recorded twice.

Question 3

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

How is the disagreement about the diary's length resolved?

On the length of the study, they decide to

A. They compromise on ten days.B. The tutor supports Ellie's two weeks.C. They agree on Raj's one week.

Questions 4–6

Who is responsible for each task?

Choose your answer from the list of people A–C and select the correct letter for each task.

Options

A. Ellie
B. Raj
C. Dr Sato

building the phone form

recruiting participants

sorting out the nutritional database

Questions 7–9

Complete the sentences below.

Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Instead of a questionnaire, participants will keep a food ______.(max 1 word)

The tendency to eat better when watched is called the ______ effect.(max 1 word)

They should recruit at least ______ participants.(max 1 word)

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About this Listening test

“Tutorial: Planning a Student Diet Survey” is an original IELTS Listening practice test in the style of Part 3 with 9 questions (Multiple Choice, Matching Features and Sentence Completion). Play the recording, answer as you listen, then submit to have every answer marked instantly and read the transcript.

Part 3 is a conversation between two to four people in an academic setting — typically students discussing an assignment with each other or a tutor. You answer 10 questions, usually multiple choice and matching, by tracking who says what, who agrees, and what they decide.

How to approach it

Before the audio, read the questions and note whose view each one asks about — "What does Marta think…" is answered by Marta’s words, not her tutor’s.
Learn the voices in the first few seconds: names are always exchanged early, and attaching name to voice immediately pays off for the whole part.
Common trap: Attributing one speaker’s opinion to another, especially when a speaker summarises someone else’s view before disagreeing with it.

Read the full Listening Part 3 strategy guide · How we write and check our tests

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