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The Test

You will have 60 minutes to complete the Reading module of the IELTS General Training test. 

You will answer 40 questions, based on three reading texts, with a total of 2000 to 2750 words. 

You will read texts taken from notices, advertisements, official documents, booklets, newspapers, instruction manuals, leaflets, timetables, magazines and books. The first section, 'social survival', has texts with tasks for extracting everyday information. The second section, 'training survival', has a text with more complex language. The third section, 'general reading', usually has a longer text with description and instruction.

You will have to answer some of the following types of questions: 

  • choosing from a 'heading bank' for identified paragraphs/sections of a text
  • classification
  • identification of information in the text - yes, no or not given/true, false or not given
  • identification of writer's views/claims - yes/no/not given
  • matching lists/phrases
  • matching lists/phrases
  • multiple choice
  • notes/summary/ diagram/table/flow-chart completion
  • sentence completion
  • short answers 
More information about the Reading module of IELTS General Training can be found at www.ielts.org 


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