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Reading tips

How to prepare for the IELTS Reading test, tips and techniques to improve your skills and raise your score

Free Reading samples (General Training)

Here is a helpful collection of real reading test samples. They are free, can be downloaded, and there are correct answers, too! I am sure you will find them useful:

Diagram completion
click here to see a Reading passage with 5 sample questions

Matching topics to advertisements
click here to see a Reading passage with 5 sample questions

True/False/Not given
click here to see a Reading passage with 7 sample questions

Filling in gaps / Summary completion
click here to see a Reading passage with 4 sample questions

Short-answer questions
click here to see a Reading passage with 4 sample questions

Sentence completion
click here to see a Reading passage with 4 sample questions

Get your free IELTS samples

We can’t have too many free tasks samples, can we 🙂 ? The IELTS official site recently released some more free practice materials.

They have added some Academic and General training reading passages and tasks, Academic and General Training writing tasks and a Speaking test. They also made the answers available and even some listening samples.

So those of you who haven’t seen the free samples yet can find them here:

Academic Reading Sample

Academic Writing Sample

General Training Reading Sample

General Training Writing Sample


Speaking Card Sample