The Academic Reading test assesses a wide range of reading skills including your ability to follow an argument, recognise a writer’s opinion, attitude or purpose. It looks at how well you can read to understand main ideas, details, opinions and implied meanings. Your reading comprehension skills are tested, covering skimming, scanning and reading for detail.
Quantities that end in -teen and -ty are used often when it comes to numbers such as age, year, and just counting how many.
Hearing the difference between, for example, 13 and 30, is a necessity as they have similar ending sounds. The best way to hear the difference is to note the syllable stress. The last syllable ‘teen’ is stressed, whereas ‘ty’ is often unstressed.
13 – 30: thir teen - thir ty
14 – 40: four teen - for ty
15 – 50: fif teen - fif ty
16 – 60: six teen - six ty
17 – 70: seven teen - seven ty
18 – 80: eigh teen - eigh ty
19 – 90: nine teen - nine ty
The Academic Reading test is made up of 3 long texts which are taken from current books, journals, magazines and newspapers. The texts are related to topics you might face if you were to study at an undergraduate or postgraduate level or apply for professional registration in an English-speaking environment.
You will have to answer 40 questions in the Academic Reading test. These questions can range from multiple choice to identifying information or a writer’s view, matching headings, features and sentence endings, as well as sentence, summary, note, table and flow-chart completions, and short answer questions.
