Reading section tests
- Reading comprehension
- Ability to read quickly and effectively
- Ability to look for specific information when answering questions
Academic Reading Module
- Consists of 3 reading passages which are academic in nature
General Reading Module
- Consists of 4 reading passages
- First three are General Reading passages
- The fourth is an academic passage
Reading test pattern
- There are usually 40 questions
- Candidates get 60 minutes to answer the questions
- No transfer time is given after the Reading section
- Write the answers directly on the answer sheet
Types of Passages
- The passages are taken from magazines, journals, textbooks and newspapers and modified to make them suitable exam materials.
- The topics include science, technology, psychology, arts and so on.
- Reading such articles will improve your comprehension, vocabulary and reading speed
The reading passages
- describing processes
- making a comparison
- giving recommendations
- examining advantages / disadvantages
- describing / proposing solutions to problems
The Question Types include:
- multiple-choice questions
- sentence completion
- short answer questions
- completion of tables / charts / summaries
- choosing headings
- classification
- matching lists
- matching phrases
Reading is the toughest section
- The passages get harder as you progress.
- Go in the order of the passages.
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