What is the format of IELTS Reading Test?

<p>As of 2025, the <strong>IELTS Reading Test</strong> format remains consistent with previous years, designed to assess a range of reading skills, including skimming, understanding logical arguments, and recognizing writers' opinions, attitudes, and purposes.</p><p><strong>Test Structure:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Duration:</strong> 60 minutes</li><li><strong>Number of Questions:</strong> 40</li><li><strong>Sections:</strong> 3</li></ul><p><strong>IELTS Academic Reading:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Content:</strong> Three long passages sourced from books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and online resources, written for a non-specialist audience. Topics are of general interest to students at the undergraduate or postgraduate level.</li><li><strong>Question Types:</strong> Multiple choice, identifying information (True/False/Not Given), identifying writer's views/claims (Yes/No/Not Given), matching information, matching headings, matching features, matching sentence endings, sentence completion, summary/note/table/flow-chart completion, diagram label completion, short-answer questions.</li></ul><p><strong>IELTS General Training Reading:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Content:</strong> Sections include everyday materials such as advertisements, official documents, brochures, and newspapers.<ul><li><strong>Section 1:</strong> Two or three short factual texts.</li><li><strong>Section 2:</strong> Two work-related texts.</li><li><strong>Section 3:</strong> One longer text on a topic of general interest.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Question Types:</strong> Similar to the Academic module, including multiple choice, matching information, and sentence completion.</li></ul>

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