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IELTS Reading — practice questions

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IELTS Academic Reading has 40 questions in 60 minutes. The average time per question is:Read the answer and worked solution →In an IELTS True / False / Not Given question, if the passage neither confirms nor contradicts the statement, you should mark:Read the answer and worked solution →In IELTS Reading, a wrong-answer option is most likely to be:Read the answer and worked solution →On a 60-minute IELTS Reading section with 3 passages, the recommended pacing per passage is:Read the answer and worked solution →During the IELTS Reading section, when should answers be written on the answer sheet?Read the answer and worked solution →A candidate writes 'recieve' instead of 'receive' on an IELTS Reading answer. The result is:Read the answer and worked solution →IELTS · English · Reading Skim or ScanRead the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

IELTS Academic Reading has 40 questions in 60 minutes. The average time per question is:

  1. About 60 seconds
  2. About 90 seconds
  3. About 2 minutes
  4. About 3 minutes
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Correct answer: B. About 90 seconds

60 / 40 = 1.5 minutes = 90 seconds per question on average.

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In an IELTS True / False / Not Given question, if the passage neither confirms nor contradicts the statement, you should mark:

  1. True
  2. False
  3. Not Given
  4. Skip the question
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Correct answer: C. Not Given

'Not Given' is the correct mark when the passage is silent on the statement. Marking 'False' for a silent statement is the classic IELTS trap.

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In IELTS Reading, a wrong-answer option is most likely to be:

  1. Always grammatically incorrect
  2. Always shorter than the right answer
  3. Too broad, too narrow, or off-topic
  4. Always paraphrased from the wrong passage
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Correct answer: C. Too broad, too narrow, or off-topic

IELTS distractor patterns: too broad (generalises beyond passage), too narrow (one detail mistaken for main idea), off-topic (introduces a fact the passage never mentions).

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