Reading practice
IELTS Reading Matching Features practice
Match people or statements to the correct options.
This page is for doing Matching Features questions: start the drill, then use the routine and the checks below to make each attempt count. For the strategy behind it, read the Matching Features guide.
Practise Matching Features only
14 Matching Features questions from General Training Practice Test 1, with the passage and instructions they were written for. Your answers are saved and marked exactly as in a full section.
- Questions
- 14 questions
- Time
- 21 minutes
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What Matching Features looks like on screen
Each statement needs one option from a short lettered list — people, organisations, places or periods named in the passage — and you choose the option the statement belongs to. Some options may not be used, and the instructions say whether an option can be used more than once.
Where you will meet it
Matching features is set on passages that discuss several named sources, such as researchers or organisations, in Academic and General Training. The statements do not usually follow passage order, so the evidence for them is spread across the text.
A routine for doing a set against the clock
Reading gives you 60 minutes for 40 questions — about 90 seconds a question, including the time spent reading. Decide the set's share before you start, then work it like this:
- Before you read any statement closely, highlight every mention of each option's name in the passage.
- Read the sentences around one option's highlights at a time, checking them against the whole list of statements.
- Fill in matches as you go, then search for the remaining statements by their key idea.
- When the time for the set is up, guess the gaps from the options that fit best and flag them.
Traps when the clock is running
Missing the second mention. A name highlighted in paragraph B may come back in paragraph F with a different claim attached. Matching from the first mention only misses half the evidence.
Losing claims made under a pronoun. Once a name is introduced, the passage often switches to 'she', 'the team' or 'their study'. Track only the name and the claims made under a pronoun go unassigned.
Letting a long set eat the passage. Matching features sets can run long. When the set's share of the clock is gone, guess the rest and protect the time for the passage's other questions.
Check yourself after the drill
Mark the drill first, then answer these honestly. A pattern across two or three attempts tells you more than any single score.
- Did you highlight every mention of each option, including the later ones?
- Were any wrong answers claims made under a pronoun or a shortened name?
- Where the instructions allowed it, did you use an option more than once?
- Did the set finish inside its time budget?