IELTS questions seen yesterday in Saudi Arabia

[Ryan]

A test taker emailed me this information today:

Reading
Passage 1
Different shops offering different products
A study about a kind of endangered animals with its different lifestyle and breeding system

Listening
Animals sleep study compared to humans
“I don’t actually remember the rest”

Writing
Task1
A letter to the manager of a hotel to arrange for a 2 days business meeting there
Introduce yourself
Plan for the meeting
Requirements of accommodation

Task2
Why people buy things that they don’t need?
Do this has positive or negative effect on the individual and society?

[hassan14]

Thank you

I have question,
Is this general test or academic one ?

[Ryan]

Hi Hassan,

This was the General exam.

[abdallah shalaby]

Hi, Ryan
It was a general exam
task 1 was to write a letter to the manager of a hotel to reserve a two days business meeting
-introduce your self
-tell him about your meeting plan
-tell him about accommodation

[Ryan]

Thank you for the update, Abdallah. Please keep us posted on your results.

[abdallah shalaby]

Hi Ryan,
I'm writing to tell you about my result that I knew today. I got overall score 7.
I got 7 listening, 7.5 writing, 7 speaking and 5.5 reading.
Comparing to my last IELTS exam that was only a month before this exam, I have made a great progress in listening, writing and speaking because in my previous exam I got overall score 6: listening 5.5, writing 6, speaking 6 and reading 6.5.
Thanks to your instructions and posts that helped me alot to achieve such a progress in this brief period of time" only 4 weeks". Thank you again for your sincere efforts, Ryan.