Reading practice
IELTS Reading Multiple Choice (Single) practice
Choose one answer A/B/C/D.
This page is for doing Multiple Choice (Single) 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 (Single) guide.
Practise Multiple Choice (Single) only
5 Multiple Choice (Single) questions from Day 01 · Reading, with the passage and instructions they were written for. Your answers are saved and marked exactly as in a full section.
- Questions
- 5 questions
- Time
- 10 minutes
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What Multiple Choice (Single) looks like on screen
The passage fills the left of the screen and the questions sit on the right, each with four options, A to D, and a round button beside each one. One click selects an option and a click on another option replaces it, so changing your mind costs nothing. You can highlight the line you based a choice on, and flag the question for review if you want to see it again.
Where you will meet it
Multiple choice can be set on any passage, in Academic and General Training alike. The questions follow the order of the passage, so the first points to an early paragraph and the last to a late one. Some versions give the first half of a sentence and ask you to choose its ending; you work through those the same way.
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 stem on its own and decide what it is asking about before you look at the options.
- Find the paragraph the stem points to, starting from where the previous answer was.
- Put the answer to yourself in a few words, then look for the option that carries that idea.
- Test the remaining options against the same lines; when two survive, reread only the sentence that separates them.
- Click your choice, flag it if you are unsure, and move to the next stem without waiting.
Traps when the clock is running
Reading all four options first. Options are written to sound plausible. Read them before the passage and every paragraph seems to support one of them, which makes the search slower, not faster.
Restarting at paragraph A each time. The set runs in passage order. Searching from the top for every question doubles your reading for no extra marks.
A long stand-off over one question. Every question is worth one mark. Three minutes spent choosing between two options is time taken from easier questions further down.
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.
- For each wrong answer, which option did you choose, and what made it look right?
- Did your wrong choices repeat the passage's words while the right ones reworded them?
- Did a small word you skipped, such as 'not', 'only' or a date, decide any question?
- Did you finish the set inside your time budget?