How many IELTS Reading Question types? | IELTS with Fiona: Podcast
Channel: Fiona Wattam
Date: 2023-03-12

Different websites have different ways of categorising IELTS Reading Question types. The official IELTS.org site says there are 11 types. Do I cover them all in my courses? Yes. 

In this blog and podcast, I examine the official 11 Question Types as outlined on IELTS.org and explain how other teachers and websites might label them. I also refer to the Reading texts so you can google them and do them by yourself.

https://ieltsetc.com/2023/03/how-many-ielts-reading-question-types/

05:10 Use the search bar on my free website to find examples of all these types of reading questions.

The 3 basic categories are: Choosing from a list, matching things, and gapfill.

➡️ CHOOSING FROM A LIST

3:53 (1) Multiple Choice Questions TIP: the correct answer uses synonyms, and the distractors (tricks) use the same words. e.g. 'Reading Habits' text.
 
05:51 (2) Identifying Information (= True, False, Not Given) TIP: Turn the statements into questions

06:36 (3) Identifying writer's views (= Yes, No, Not Given) 

➡️ MATCHING THINGS

07:40 (4) Matching Information (= Matching Statements, Matching Paragraph Information). Tip: leave this question type till last in that passage?

08:42 (5) Matching Headings TIP: use the first line of each paragraph (topic sentence)

09:14 (6) Matching Features (= Categorising features = Name Matching) TIP: Underline the name of the researchers and identify their main opinion/theory.

10:37 (7) Matching Sentence Endings TIP: use the grammar of the sentence, and try to work out the answer from the text before you look at the options for the second half.

➡️ GAPFILL

Tips for all gapfill: How many words? Guess the type of word you're looking for. Copy the exact word from the text. Check your spelling is the same as the text. Use capital letters if you want to. The gaps go in the same order as the text.

11:54 (8) Sentence Completion

13:18 (9) Summaries, Notes, Tables, Flowcharts.

14:40 (10) Diagram Label Completion

15:20 (11) Short Answer Questions

15:51 Other types? Question 40 (Multiple Choice)



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