40 Objective questions

3 Long Texts

From books, journals, magazines and newspapers, texts are written for a non-specialist audience. Candidates entering undergraduate or postgraduate courses find suitable and accessible. Passages are written in narrative, descriptive or agumentative styles. Texts might contain non-verbal materials such as diagrams, graphs or illustrations.

• Short-Answer Questions
• Multiple Choice
• Identifying data [True/False/Not Given]
• Matching information, features, headings, sentence endings
• Complete sentence, summary, note, table, flow chart, diagram label.
• Identifying writer’s claims/views

It consists questions that examine a wide range of reading skills.

It consists reading for foremost ideas, themes, detail, scanning and skimming, knowing logical conflicts and acknowledging writer’s opinions and motives.

Question Sort

Multiple Choice Questions

• Candidates are provided a part of the sentence and are asked to complete it from provided options as A, B, C, D, and so on.Candidates are required to choose either
  • 1 answer from 4 alternatives
  • 2 answers from 5 alternatives
  • 3 answers from 7 alternatives

  According to the information provided in the passage, the questions have similar order, i.e. before the answer to the second question, the answer to the first question will be placed in the text.

Identifying information (true/false/not given)

Candidates will be provided a set of statements and asked questions such as :

“Complete the following statements agree with the data in the text?”

Along with this, candidates are asked to write ‘true’, ‘false’ or ‘not given’ in the boxes given on their answer sheets.

As the data in the text, again the questions are in the similar order.

Identifying writer’s claims/views

Candidates will be provided a set of statements and asked questions such as :

“Complete the following statements agree with the data in the text?”

Along with this, candidates are asked to write ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘not given’ in the boxes given on their answer sheets.

According to the information provided in the passage, the questions have similar order, i.e. before the answer to the second question, the answer to the first question will be placed in the text.

Through eloquent texts, this task often implemented.

Matching information

• In the sections of a text, candidates are supposed to place particular data and write the letters of the right sections in the boxes given on their answer sheets. You might be asked information like- specific details, a reason, an example, a comparison, a description or a summary.In every section of the text, candidates do not importantly require to search data, however, in a provided section, they may find more than one piece of significant data.

  In such scenario, test takers can utilize any letter more than once.

  As the information in the text, the questions do not follow the similar order unlike other tasks.

This task type assesses the test takers’ ability to scan and locate a specific information and recognize a summary or definition.

Matching headings

Candidates are provided with a list of headings which refers to the main idea of the paragraph or section of the text and are to be matched to the correct paragraphs or sections. No heading should be used more than once.

Candidates may find that:

• The number of headlines could be more than the paragraphs or sections, so unmatched headings can be left unused.
• Some paragraphs or sections might not be there in the task.
• As an example, more than one paragraph or section may already be matched with a heading.

This task assesses candidates’ ability to recognise the main idea or theme of a particular paragraphs or sections of a text, and to distinguish main ideas from supporting ones.

Main difference between matching information and matching headings tasks is that the former task is concerned with specific information while the latter recognises the main idea.