Reading practice
IELTS Reading True / False / Not Given practice
Decide if statements match the passage.
This page is for doing True / False / Not Given questions: start the drill, then use the routine and the checks below to make each attempt count. For the strategy behind it, read the True / False / Not Given guide.
Practise True / False / Not Given only
14 True / False / Not Given questions from GT Test 1 · Reading, 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 True / False / Not Given looks like on screen
The passage sits on the left and a list of statements on the right, each with three options: TRUE, FALSE and NOT GIVEN. You click one per statement. You can highlight the line that decided an answer, and flag a statement for review so you can find it again from the navigation bar before time runs out.
Where you will meet it
Identifying information, as the test calls it, is set in both Academic and General Training. It comes as a set of statements about one passage, and the statements usually follow the order of the passage, so each answer sits after the previous one. A paper may hold one set, several or none.
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:
- Pick out an anchor in the first statement — a name, a number or an unusual noun — and find it in the passage.
- Read the two or three sentences around the anchor and compare them with every part of the statement.
- Decide, click, and take the next statement from that point in the passage forward.
- If a statement has no anchor you can find after a short search, treat that absence as evidence and move on.
- Flag any statement you guessed and come back to it only when the set is finished.
Traps when the clock is running
Searching longer for NOT GIVEN statements. A NOT GIVEN statement has no line to find, so searching harder for it can go on indefinitely. If the passage never addresses the point, that is your answer.
Rereading the passage for every statement. The statements follow the passage. A fresh read from the top for each one burns the minutes the rest of the passage needs.
Leaving a statement blank to come back to. A wrong answer costs nothing extra, but a blank never scores. If time runs out, a flagged guess is worth more than an empty row.
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.
- Could you point to the exact line behind every TRUE and FALSE you chose?
- Did any NOT GIVEN answer have a line that actually contradicts the statement?
- Did your mistakes cluster on one confusion, such as FALSE where NOT GIVEN was right?
- Which statement took longest, and was the time worth one mark?