Aptis reading Test: General Tips and Strategies

APTIS Listening Test: Tips and Strategies 
In this post we will provide you with General TIPs and Strategies To Prepare For 
APTIS Listening Test. 
The Aptis Listening Test contains 17 tasks and a total of 25 different questions focusing on 
different aspects of real-life listening. 
Your job is to simply choose the correct answer from a list of possible choices. 
This post will: 
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Briefly explain nature of the test 
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Provide you resources for listening practice questions 
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provide technique and strategy to deal with questions 
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give you tips and advice 
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provide you with a strategy to use on exam day and before
The test is divided into 4 parts. In total, there are 25 questions. All the questions are multiple-
choice, with each question offering you three options. 
If you wish to, you can listen to the question a second time. You do not have to do this if you 
don’t want to. 
There are 4 parts in APTIS listening test: 
1.
Information recognition 
2.
Information matching 
3.
Opinion Matching
4.
Monologue comprehension
In part 1, information recognition, you will hear a short phone message, short monologue or 
dialogue and you will be asked to identify specific information like a number, time, place or a word. 
In part 2, information matching, you will listen to four monologues and you will be asked to 
match one of the four pieces of information with one of six pieces of specific information. This may 
be something they want to buy or a place they would like to go. 
In part 3, opinion matching, you will listen to a short conversation between two people, a man and 
a woman and decide who is expressing an opinion. There are four questions in this part. 
In part 4, Monologue comprehension, you will hear a monologue and answer two questions. You 
have to decide the attitude, opinion or intention of the speaker, not the meaning. You do this by 
recognizing them from the language or tone of the speaker. 
There are 4 versions of APTIS test and the time limit for each version is below: 
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Aptis General - 35 minutes 
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Aptis Advanced - 60 minutes 
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Aptis for Teens and Aptis for Teachers - 30 minutes