IELTS
JOURNAL
40
Academic/General Reading Question Types
Now that you have learned enough reading techniques, you
are ready to get familiar
with various question types of the Academic Reading test.
The following questions types are used in the Academic Reading test:
1.
Multiple choice
2.
Identifying information
3.
Identifying writer’s
views or claims
4.
Matching information
5.
Matching headings
6.
Matching
features or classification
7.
Matching sentence endings
8.
Sentence completion
9.
Summary, note, table,
flow-chart completion
10.
Diagram label completion
11.
Short-answer questions
Note:
Any of these question types may appear in any section. Not
all question types
will appear in an individual Academic Reading test.
IELTS
JOURNAL
41
1. Reading: Multiple choice
Task Type & Format
In this task type, candidates are required to choose
the best answer from four
alternatives A, B, C or D, or the best two answers from five alternatives A, B, C, D
or E, or the best three answers from seven alternatives A, B, C, D, E, F or G.
Candidates write the letter of the answer they have chosen on the answer sheet.
The questions may
involve completing a sentence, in which the ‘stem’ gives the
first part of a sentence and candidates choose the best way to complete it from
the options, or could involve complete questions, with
the candidates choosing
the option which best answers them. The questions are in the same order as the
information in the text: that is, the answer to the first question in this group will
be located in the text before the
answer to the second question, and so on. This
task type may be used with any type of text.
Task Focus
This task type tests a wide range of reading skills including detailed
understanding of specific points or an overall understanding of the main points
of the text.
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