International Legal English Certificate Sample Exam Papers

ILEC Listening General InformationThe Test of Listening assesses candidates’ listening skills in English in a legal context by asking themto listen to recorded texts and answer questions in corresponding tasks.Text TypesTimingRecording InformationThese include monologues (announcements, talks, seminars,presentations) and interacting speakers (discussions, consultations,meetings, interviews).40 minutes, including transfer of answers to answer sheet.The texts in all parts are heard twice.Number of Questions 30Answering FormatAssessmentCandidates indicate their answers by shading a box or writing a word, orwords, on a machine-readable answer sheet.Each question carries one mark.ILEC Listening OutlinePart Task Type and Format Number Task Focusof Items1 Three short monologues or dialogues not linkedthematically. Heard twice.Two 3-option multiple-choice questions per text.6 Gist, detail, function, purpose,topic, attitude, feeling, opinion,inference, etc.2 A dialogue set in the context of an interview, ameeting, a hearing, a consultation, a negotiation,a social situation, etc. between 2 or more people.Heard twice.Five 3-option multiple-choice questions.3 A monologue set in a legal context (trainingseminars, presentations, lectures, etc.) Heardtwice.Nine sentence completion items.4 Five short texts on a theme spoken by fivedifferent speakers. Heard twice.Two multiple matching tasks, each with a discretefocus.Six options per task.5 Listening for gist, specificinformation, opinion, andattitude.9 Locating and recordingspecific information.10 Listening for gist. Forexample, function, attitude,feeling, opinion, inference,identification of speaker, topic,etc.30