Reading practice
IELTS Reading Yes / No / Not Given practice
Match claims to writer's views.
This page is for doing Yes / No / 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 Yes / No / Not Given guide.
Practise Yes / No / Not Given only
6 Yes / No / Not Given questions 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
- 6 questions
- Time
- 10 minutes
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What Yes / No / Not Given looks like on screen
It looks like TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN — the passage on the left, statements on the right — but the three buttons read YES, NO and NOT GIVEN. Each statement is a claim, and you judge it against what the writer thinks rather than against facts in the text. Highlight the sentence where the writer takes a position, and flag any statement you want to revisit.
Where you will meet it
Identifying the writer's views needs a passage in which the writer argues a case, so it is usually set with argumentative or discursive texts rather than with notices or plain factual descriptions. It appears in both versions of the test. The statements usually follow the order 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:
- For each statement, find where the passage discusses its topic, moving forward from the previous answer.
- Look for the sentence where the writer evaluates that topic, not just describes it.
- Check whose voice the sentence is in before you decide; a view the writer reports is not automatically the writer's own.
- Compare the strength of the claim with the strength of the writer's words, then click.
- Flag statements you guessed and return to them only after the set is done.
Traps when the clock is running
Bringing TRUE/FALSE habits with you. A statement can be accurate as a fact and still be NOT GIVEN here, if the writer never says whether they agree with it. You are matching opinions, not facts.
Ignoring how strong the claim is. If the writer says something 'may' help, a statement that it 'definitely' helps is not a YES. The direction and the strength both have to match.
Changing settled answers on a hunch. Change an answer you have already justified with a quoted line only if you find a new line that overturns it, not because a later statement feels similar.
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 YES or NO, were you quoting the writer, or someone the writer reports?
- Did the strength of the writer's claim match the strength of the statement?
- Which NOT GIVEN answers had an evaluating sentence you missed?
- Did you finish the set inside your time budget?