You have 60 minutes to complete the General Training Reading test. The test is in three sections:
Section 1: two or three reading texts
Section 2: two texts on training or work topics
Section 3: one longer text

Authentic reading texts of general interest are used and may be from advertisements, notices, company handbooks, books, magazines and newspapers.

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 1A.2, Unit 1C.3, Unit 1D.2, Unit 2B.6, Unit 4C.4, Unit 5C.1
Choosing True/False/Not given or Yes/No/Not given	Unit 3B.3, Unit 4A.5
Labelling a diagram	Unit 4C.2
Locating information	Unit 3A.3, Unit 4B.1
Multiple choice	Unit 1D.1, Unit 3C.4, Unit 3C.5
Matching*	Unit 1B.2, Unit 1B.3, Unit 5A.1, Unit 5B.3, Unit 5B.6
Completing a summary or sentences	Unit 1C.1, Unit 1C.2,  Unit 5A.2,  Unit 5C.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: Matching information to advertisements

B: Understanding notices

Unit 3

A: Locating information (1)

B: Practise True/False/Not given tasks

C: Understanding job descriptions

Unit 4

A: Reading longer texts

B: Dealing with difficult or unknown vocabulary

C: Locating information (2)

Unit 5

A: Practise reading for gist

B: Matching opinions to people

C: How to approach table completion tasks

Module Test

Test