Free mock test
Free IELTS Reading mock test, marked the moment you hand in
Every Cambridge Reading paper, Academic and General Training, scored against the answer key.
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You can sit any Cambridge IELTS Reading paper here free. Forty questions in 60 minutes, three sections, no extra time to transfer answers — and it is marked against the book's own answer key the moment you hand in. 30 correct out of 40 is an indicative band 7. in Academic, and a band 6 in General Training: the two are scored on different scales, which is why the same raw score is not the same band.
- 84 papers
- Cambridge 1 to 21
- 40 questions
- Three sections in 60 minutes
- Academic & GT
- Scored on different scales
- Instant
- Marked when you hand in
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What the Reading test asks of you
Academic — three long passages
Taken from books, journals and newspapers, written for a general audience rather than a specialist one. The last passage is usually the most argumentative and the most expensive to leave unfinished.
General Training — everyday and workplace texts
Notices, advertisements and company handbooks first, then a longer piece of general interest. Scored on a different scale from Academic for the same forty questions.
The 60 minutes include transferring answers
There is no extra time at the end. On the computer-delivered test you answer on screen as you go, which is the version practised here.
What a Reading score is worth
Forty questions, one mark each. IELTS publishes four indicative points per module and describes them as indicative: 30 correct out of 40 is an indicative band 7. in Academic. General Training needs more correct answers for the same band, because its texts are less demanding.
Every Reading paper
All 84 Cambridge Reading papers, newest book first. Each one is free to sit.