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The IELTS Academic Reading test assesses how well you can understand and interpret texts commonly used in academic settings. Preparing with the right resources can help you develop reading speed, comprehension, and accuracy — all essential for scoring well in IELTS Reading.
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: 3 long passages with 40 questions
Source of texts: Books, journals, magazines, newspapers, covering topics relevant to university studies or professional registration
Skills assessed: Ability to follow an argument, recognise a writer’s opinion, attitude, or purpose. It looks at how well you can read to understand main ideas, details, opinions, and implied meanings. Your reading comprehension skills are tested, covering skimming, scanning, and reading for detail.
Question types: Multiple choice, identifying information or a writer’s view, matching headings, features, and sentence endings, as well as sentence, summary, note, table, and flow-chart completions, and short-answer questions
Access official IDP IELTS Reading practice tests and familiarise yourself with real exam questions.
Matching feature: Practice test | Download answer key
Matching sentence endings: Practice test | Download answer key
Sentence completion: Practice test | Download answer key
Summary completion (select words from text): Practice test | Download answer key
Summary completion (select from a list of words): Practice test | Download answer key
Note completion: Practice test | Download answer key
Identifying information (True/False/Not Given): Practice test | Download answer key
Multiple choice (more than one answer): Practice test | Download answer key
Multiple choice (one answer): Practice test | Download answer key
Table completion: Practice test | Download answer key
Familiarisation test: Practice test | Download answer key
Each IELTS Reading practice test comes with answer keys so you can check your progress.
Skim and scan texts for main ideas before focusing on details.
Practice under timed conditions (40 questions in 60 minutes).
Highlight keywords to locate answers faster.
Read instructions carefully to avoid losing marks.
Write answers directly on the answer sheet (for paper test).