Matching sentence endings gives you a set of sentence beginnings and a longer list of lettered endings, and you pick the letter that finishes each one the way the passage does. The list is longer on purpose. Half of it can be crossed off on grammar alone, before you read a word of the passage. […]

You are handed a statement and three words to choose from, and the passage alone decides which word is right. Yes No Not Given questions in IELTS Reading ask whether a statement matches the writer’s opinion, opposes it, or falls outside the text because there is not enough information to judge. The qualifying words usually […]

IELTS Reading gives you three passages and forty questions in sixty minutes. Those sixty minutes also cover copying every answer onto the answer sheet, so pacing decides as many marks as comprehension does. This guide covers the reading test format, the Academic and General Training passages, the assessed skills, and the eleven question types. It […]

Table completion hands you a grid with some cells left blank, and you fill them with words taken straight from the passage. Every gap sits under a column heading and beside a row label. Those two labels fix the category of the answer, whether that is a year, a cost, a material or a name. […]

Flow chart completion gives you a sequence of boxes joined by arrows, and you fill the blank ones with words taken from the passage. The arrows carry a promise. The boxes follow the passage’s own order, so once box 3 is filled you never look back for box 4. Every chart is one of two […]

Diagram labelling gives you a picture with some labels missing and a passage that describes the object in words. You copy the missing labels straight from that passage. The official name is diagram label completion, and “labelling a diagram” means the same task. This guide covers what the task is, the word limit rule, the […]

IELTS reading comprehension means locating a stated answer in the passage and proving the passage really says it, inside sixty minutes. Most comprehension advice online is written for school students or aptitude tests, and two of its rules are wrong here: never read the passage first, and answer in your own words. In IELTS you […]

IELTS Reading sets 40 questions in 60 minutes across three passages, and the answer transfer happens inside that hour. Academic and General Training share those mechanics, so these tips apply to both unless stated. Judge every tip by one question: does it buy time or spend it? A better band score comes from managing the […]

IELTS Reading True False Not Given items hand you a statement and three verdicts. TRUE means the reading passage states the claim. FALSE means the passage contradicts it. NOT GIVEN means silence: the text never addresses the claim at all. Most lost marks come from reading “I cannot find it” as a contradiction. This guide […]

IELTS Reading multiple choice gives you a question or an unfinished sentence, three or four answer options, and one job: pick the option the reading passage supports. The catch is that the wrong options, called distractors, are built from words that genuinely appear in the text, so matching vocabulary picks the trap. This guide covers […]

You have just attempted the exploration passage and you want to know whether your answers are right. It is Reading Passage 3 of Cambridge 15 Test 1, the third and last Academic Reading text of that paper. This page gives you the question map and the reasoning behind each answer, not a reprinted passage and […]

IELTS Academic Reading gives you three long texts from current books, journals, magazines and newspapers, plus forty questions and one hour. Subject knowledge earns nothing here. Paraphrase and academic vocabulary decide the band. This page covers the paper’s structure, its recurring topics, its real difficulty, and the question types that dominate it. It then works […]