The reading test consists of three passages of text. The texts are suitable for undergraduate or postgraduate students but are of general interest. Texts may be from journals, books, websites, magazines or newspapers.
There are two or three tasks related to the first passage, three tasks for the second, and three tasks for the third.
Each section of the reading paper includes one or more of the task types listed in the following table. You can find examples of each of these task types throughout this reading module.
| Task type | Example |
| Completing notes, a table or a flow-chart | Unit 1C.3, Unit 1D.2, Unit 4B.4 |
| Choosing True/False/Not given | Unit 5C.3 |
| Choosing Yes/No/Not given | Unit 1D.3 |
| Labelling a diagram | Unit 4B.2 |
| Multiple choice | Unit 5A.2, 5A.3 & 5A.4 |
| Matching* | Unit 1B.2, Unit 1B.3, Unit 2A.4, Unit 2C.2, Unit 3A.1, Unit 3A.6, Unit 5B.1, Unit 5B.2 |
| Completing a summary or sentences | Unit 1C.1, Unit 1C.2, , Unit 2B.4, Unit 2B.5, Unit 2C.4, Unit 3A.2, Unit 4A.3 |
* In some of these examples of the matching task type, the number of answer options is the same as the number of questions. However, in the exam, there may be extra answer options that you do not need to use.
| Unit 1 |
| A: General information about the reading test |
| B: Matching tasks |
| C: Completion tasks |
| D: Other tasks |
| Unit 2 |
| A: Predicting content of a text before reading |
| B: Completion task practice |
| C: Identifying main ideas in a text |
| Unit 3 |
| A: Practise task types that you looked at in Unit 2 |
| B: Look at tasks that focus on matching opinions to specific people |
| Unit 4 |
| A: Study how to approach diagram and table completion tasks |
| B: Locating information in a text |
| C: Focus on how to deal with unknown or difficult vocabulary |
| Unit 5 |
| A: Study how to approach multiple choice tasks |
| B: Look at sentence matching tasks |
| C: Focus on True/False/Not Given tasks |
| Module Test |
| Test |