Reading practice
IELTS Reading Multiple Choice (Multiple) practice
Choose TWO or THREE answers.
This page is for doing Multiple Choice (Multiple) questions: start the drill, then use the routine and the checks below to make each attempt count. For the strategy behind it, read the Multiple Choice (Multiple) guide.
Practise Multiple Choice (Multiple) only
1 Multiple Choice (Multiple) question from Academic Practice Test 2, with the passage and instructions they were written for. Your answers are saved and marked exactly as in a full section.
- Questions
- 1 questions
- Time
- 10 minutes
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What Multiple Choice (Multiple) looks like on screen
These questions ask for two or three answers from a longer list, and each option has a square tick box rather than a round button. The instruction above the list says exactly how many letters to choose. Each letter you need counts as its own question number, and each correct letter scores on its own.
Where you will meet it
Questions with more than one answer usually come as one task that takes two or three question numbers, one for each letter you need. They appear in Academic and General Training. The supporting lines are often close together, but they can be spread across several sentences of one stretch of the passage.
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:
- Read the instruction for the number of letters before anything else, and note it.
- Turn the stem into one search target, such as 'benefits the writer mentions', and find where the passage discusses it.
- Go through the options one by one and mark each as supported, contradicted or not mentioned.
- Tick only the supported letters; if you are short, add the most likely of the rest rather than leave a box empty.
- Flag the question if any letter was a guess, then move on.
Traps when the clock is running
Stopping after the first good option. Once one letter is clearly right, the next likely-sounding option is tempting. The second letter needs the same evidence as the first.
Leaving the whole question blank. Each letter scores separately, so a partly answered question still earns marks. Leaving every box empty because one letter is uncertain throws away a mark you had.
Testing options against the whole passage. Most options can be checked against the stretch of text the stem points to. Widening the search to every paragraph turns a three-minute question into ten.
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 tick exactly the number of letters the instruction asked for?
- For each ticked letter, can you name the sentence that supports it?
- Was a wrong pick an option the passage mentioned, but not as an answer to the stem?
- How long did the question take compared with a single-answer one?