Download IELTS Reading – Academic documents with detailed answers

Overview of the IELTS Reading Academic test

The test IELTS Reading Academic lasts for 60 minutes, consisting of 3 sections, each ranging from 2,150 to 2,750 words.

• Each section contains one long reading passage.

• The passages are taken from books, journals, magazines, and newspapers. They are written for a non-specialist audience.

• The content is appropriate for and accessible to test-takers entering undergraduate or postgraduate courses, or seeking professional registration.

• The passages may include diagrams, graphs, or illustrations.

• Sometimes the passages contain technical terms, which are explained in a glossary.

• If the passage contains technical terms, a glossary is provided.

Question types:

A variety of question types is used in the test IELTS Reading, such as 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.

Scoring:

Each correct answer receives 1 mark. Scores out of 40 are converted to the IELTS 9-band scale.IELTS 9-band scale.