In the Listening section of IELTS the recording uses several different voices – of younger and older people, men and women.
You may also hear different accents – Australian, British, American, Japanese, etc. The background noise is also different. It can be of an airport, a cafe-shop, a street, a University lecture hall, you name it.
Be ready for it and don’t let it distract you – because that is exactly what they want.
Often Listening can be your biggest problem.Your Listening ability in many cases is not developed enough. But the good news is that Listening is a skill, not a gift, which means anyone can learn how to listen and understand.
When training, take a recording of the news, a lecture, a television program, a movie or an actual IELTS Listening test and work with it.