Module 6 · Lesson 1 of 7
How the Reading test works
The 60 minutes, what each question type asks you to do, a time plan for all three sections, and the answer rules that protect easy marks.
In this lesson
- Describe the Reading test format: timing, sections, questions, scoring and the answer sheet
- Recognise each main question type and the job it asks you to do
- Use a 60-minute time plan with checkpoints so that no question is left blank
- Apply the answer rules on word limits, spelling, plurals and numbers
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Inside this lesson
- The test at a glance
- Academic or General Training: what changes
- The question types, and the three jobs they ask for
- Your 60-minute time plan
- Answer rules: how right answers get marked wrong
- Practise the rules on a short passage
- Check your understanding
- How the rest of this module works