IELTS Academic Reading Practice Tests

The Academic Reading test is 60 minutes long.

There are 3 sections. The total text length is 2,150-2,750 words.

• Each section contains one long text.
• Texts are authentic and are taken from books, journals, magazines and newspapers. They have been written for a non-specialist audience and are on academic topics of general interest.
• Texts are appropriate, and accessible, to test-takers entering undergraduate or postgraduate courses, or seeking professional registration.
• Texts range from descriptive and factual to the discursive and analytical.
• Texts may contain non-verbal materials, such as diagrams, graphs or illustrations.
• If texts contain technical terms, a simple glossary is provided.

Question types

A variety of questions is used, chosen from the following types: multiple choice, 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.

Marking

Each correct answer receives 1 mark. Scores out of 40 are converted to the IELTS 9-band scale. Scores are reported in whole and half bands.

IELTS Academic Reading sample tasks

• Answer sheet (PDF, 130KB)
• Identifying writer’s views (PDF, 56KB)
• Matching features (PDF, 22KB)
• Table completion (PDF, 59KB)

Flow-chart completion (selecting words from text)

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Identifying information (true/false/not given)

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Matching headings

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Multiple choice (more than one answer)

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Multiple choice (one answer)

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Summary completion (selecting from a list of words or phrases)

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Summary completion (selecting words from the text)

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IELTS Academic practice tests

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