Academic Reading
Duration: 60 minutes
Texts for the Academic Reading test are taken from books, journals, magazines and newspapers.
A variety of tasks is used, including: multiple choice questions, identifying information, identifying writer’s views/claims, matching information, matching headings, matching features, matching sentence endings, sentence completion, summary completion, note completion, table completion, flow-chart completion, diagram label completion, short-answer questions.
| Downloadable Academic Reading sample tasks | |
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| Academic Reading sample task – Matching features (PDF, 22KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Table completion (PDF, 59KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Flow-chart completion (selecting words from the text) (PDF, 173 KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Identifying information (True False Not Given) (PDF, 174KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Matching headings (PDF, 92KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Matching sentence endings task (PDF, 132KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Multiple choice (more than one answer) (PDF, 223KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Multiple choice (one answer) (PDF, 256KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Note completion task (PDF, 260KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Sentence completion task (PDF, 190KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Summary completion (selecting from a list of words or phrases) (PDF, 259 KB) | |
| Academic Reading sample task – Summary completion (selecting words from the text) (PDF, 189 KB) |
| Academic Reading answer sheet |
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| IELTS Reading answer sheet (PDF, 130KB) |