Free IELTS reading tips, lessons and test information for success in your reading test. Develop your skills with these useful tips and practice lessons for a high score in reading. Everything you need to know about reading is here. You can find authentic IELTS reading test links at the bottom of this page.

IELTS Reading Information

IELTS reading test information, answers to common questions, tips and band scores.

IELTS Reading Test Information & Tips (FAQ)

IELTS General Training Reading Test Information

IELTS Band Scores: Calculate your Score

Essential Tips for IELTS Reading

These IELTS reading tips below are to help you understand the techniques needed for the IELTS reading test. Click below to open the link:

• How to improve your score: Learn useful techniques to develop your English, IELTS skills and understanding of the IELTS Reading Test.
• TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN TIPS:  Essential Tips and homework answer. The video lesson on this page explains the difference between False and Not Given as well as other great tips.
• Tips: Comprehension and Strategy: Learn about reading for understand and reading to locate answers: two different skills
• Tips: Reading Question Types: A list of all the question types in IELTS Academic & GT Reading – a must read.
• How I got Band Score 9 in IELTS Reading: Learn how one student scored band 9 in the IELTS reading test – get useful tips and strategies.

Practice Lessons for Reading Skills

Below are practice reading lessons to help you develop reading skills for IELTS. They are not IELTS tests. These reading exercises have been designed by myself to provide free practice materials for you. Some of the exercises are easy and some are more difficult so that students of all levels can practise.

1. True False Not Given Practice Reading 

2. Desertification: Matching headings

3. About Ants: Diagram Completion & TFNG

4. Paraphrasing Practice 1

5. Paraphrasing Practice 2

6. Paraphrasing Practice 3

7. Life on Earth: Sentence Completion

8. Google Translate for Medical Purposes: Matching Paragraph Information

9. Crime and Punishment: Matching Sentence Endings

10. Beds in the Ancient World: Categorisation

11. Pangolins: Matching Headings with Tips 

12. Ebola: Matching Paragraph Information

13. The History of Easter Eggs: Short Answer Questions

14. Water Pollution: Sentence Completion

15. GM Foods: Multiple Choice

16. Antimicrobial Resistance: Matching Headings

17. Choosing a Title

18. The South Pole: Matching Paragraph Information and Tips

19. NASA’s Mars Ship: Matching Sentence Endings

20. Alzheimer’s: Multiple Choice

21. Fermented Foods: Summary Completion

22. An Ear for Music: Multiple Choice

23. War on Smoking: Sentence Completion

24. Importance of Sleep: Summary Completion

25. Penguin Facts: Sentence Completion

26. Hobbies for the Elderly: Matching Paragraph Information

27. All about Rice: Multiple Choice

28. Choosing a Title

29. The Greenhouse Effect: Matching Headings

IELTS Reading Practice Tests: British Council

Full authentic IELTS Reading Tests published by the IELTS, British Council. Use the test to practice under exam conditions. Give yourself 1 hour to read the passage, answer the questions and complete the answer sheet. Each test, contains: Full Reading Test Questions, Answer Sheet and Answer Key. Click below:

Free GT Reading Test

Free Academic Reading Test

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