#IELTS Academic Reading Practice Tests

▪️The Academic Reading test is 60 minutes long.

▪️There are 3 sections. The total text length is 2,150-2,750 words.

▪️Each section contains one long text.

▪️Texts are authentic and are taken from books, journals, magazines and newspapers. They have been written for a non-specialist audience and are on academic topics of general interest.

▪️ Texts are appropriate, and accessible, to test-takers entering undergraduate or postgraduate courses, or seeking professional registration.

▪️Texts range from descriptive and factual to the discursive and analytical.

▪️Texts may contain non-verbal materials, such as diagrams, graphs or illustrations.

▪️If texts contain technical terms, a simple glossary is provided.


Question types

▪️A variety of questions is used, chosen from the following types: 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.
Marking

▪️Each correct answer receives 1 mark. Scores out of 40 are converted to the IELTS 9-band scale. Scores are reported in whole and half bands.
IELTS Academic Reading sample tasks

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IELTS Free Practice tests to develop your exam technique
http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/prepare-test/free-practice-tests

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Many people find the reading section difficult. Remember that the IELTS is testing your ability to use a range of reading skills, in a very strict timeframe, and not everyone has enough time to read through every sentence of every text, AND answer the questions. You have only 1 hour to read 3 texts, that's a lot of information! So what should you do?

1: Get interested in reading! First of all, read a couple of magazines on a topic that interests you (sport, cars, photography, etc) and then start timing yourself, so you can improve your reading speed. Then once your speed has improved, move onto more IELTS related topics, technology, language, environment, science, innovation, etc, and try reading those for speed too.

2: Remember to check for new vocabulary AFTER you have read the paragraph. You need to learn how to guess the meaning of a word, based on the context it is in, while reading quickly, so always check the meanings of words later.

3: After improving your general reading skills, learn the specific reading skills of skimming and scanning, because these will help you to answer the reading questions. Once you master these two skills, you'll find you have much more time to read through and properly answer the questions. Skimming a text gives you an overview of the article and its main points, whereas you use scanning to help you find the right location to detail read to find the answer.
First, read the questions, then skim quickly through the text, highlighting key words that you think relate to the questions (try giving yourself about 2 mins for this), you can often just read the first sentence in each paragraph. Then go through the questions one by one. Identify the key word in the question and scan the text for the key word (or a synonym of it), then detail read to answer the question. Then move on to the next question. If there is a question you are stuck on, move on and come back to it at the end of the test if you have time.

4: Make sure that when you are practicing that you always time yourself (including the writing of the answers on the answer sheet) and don’t go over 20 mins per passage.

5: When looking for articles to practice, Check out these online sources!
The Guardian Newspaper (three editions; UK, US and Australian)
http://www.theguardian.com/au
The Australian Geographic
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/
New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/

#IELTS Speaking test in Myanmar – August 2016

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Why did you choose this job?
– Do you like to study alone or with friends?
– Do you like advertisements? Why?
– Have you ever bought a product after watching its advertisement on TV?
– Is it good to advertise online?
– Did you learn an art in your school?
– What do you prefer, to draw or paint?
– Have you ever been to an art gallery?
– Do you have plans to study art in the future?

Cue Card

Describe something that you shared with someone. Please say
– What was it?
– Who and why did you share it with?
– How did you feel about it?

Discussion

– How do the Internet and mobile phones impact our lives?
– What are the advantages and disadvantages of study or work in a group?
– Should children be taught to share? Why?
– What things should or shouldn’t be shared by children? Why?
– Should students share accommodation?
– What are the advantages and disadvantages of shared accommodation?

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