Reading
The Reading Section measures your ability to understand academic and everyday texts by identifying main ideas, key details, vocabulary in context, and relationships between ideas. Tasks reflect both academic reading and real-life written communication.
- Complete the Words
- Read in Daily Life
- Read an Academic Passage
Read an academic passage and answer comprehension questions
You read a short academic passage (about 200 words) on topics drawn from fields such as science, history, business, art or social studies. Background knowledge is not required. Each passage is followed by five questions. This task measures your ability to identify main ideas, understand important details, interpret academic vocabulary, make inferences, and recognize how ideas are logically connected across sentences and paragraphs. Questions may focus on factual information, vocabulary in context, relationships between ideas, or the author’s purpose.
Reading
Phoresis
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Understand short real-world texts like emails and notices
You read short, nonacademic texts (15–150 words) that reflect real-world written communication, such as emails, notices, schedules, messages, advertisements, forms, or social media posts. Each text is followed by 2–3 multiple-choice questions, depending on length. This task assesses your ability to understand information presented in nonlinear formats, identify the main purpose of a message, interpret informal or idiomatic language, and quickly scan or skim for relevant details. You may also be asked to make simple inferences based on the text.
Park Opening
CEO Retiring
Sculpture Exhibition
Emergency Meeting
Company Retreat
Fill in missing letters in an academic passage
You read a short academic paragraph (about 70–100 words). The first sentence is shown in full, and starting from the second sentence, the second half of every second word is removed. Your task is to complete the missing letters correctly. This task measures your ability to process written English for both meaning and form. To succeed, you must understand the overall meaning of the text while also applying accurate knowledge of spelling, grammar, and word structure. Each passage contains 10 incomplete words, and correct answers depend on using context rather than memorization.
Botswana's Diamonds
Bathypelagic Zone
Astronomy vs. Astrology
Last Universal Common Ancestor