✅ 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
Identifying information
Identifying writer's views
Matching features
Matching headings
Multiple choice questions
Table completion
Diagram label completion