These are the most common question types that you will see in the IELTS reading test. Some may be easier than others for you to answer, but there will be a variety of these when you take the test so make sure you practice many tests to ensure you are familiar with all types of questions.
Question Types
1) Multiple choice questions
This type of question requires you to pick the correct answer from the given choices which are in capital letters of ABC and D. This is checking your understanding of the text.
2) Information identification questions
These questions are asking you if the information is either true false or it’s not given.
3) Information matching
These types of questions require you to find specific information and place it where it should be. You need to have clearly understood the text and be able to understand every paragraph and what information it contains.
4) Head Matching
This type of question requires you to pick a heading from the given headings and place each of them in the paragraphs. It is checking that you get the gist and overall meaning of each paragraph.
5) Sentence completion
In this type of question, you will find an incomplete sentence. You are will complete it with words taken from the text. You need to clearly identify the relevant piece of text to find the correct answer.
6) Summary completion
A summary part of the text will be given to you. You are required to complete it by picking words from the text, there will be a total number of words you should choose.
7) Features matching
This is the type of question that requires you to find specific information about given features and match it. .
8) Matching sentence endings
This is a very simple question. Part of a sentence is picked from a line in the text. You have to locate where it has been taken from and complete the sentence.
9) Short answer questions
This is a question that asks you to answer the question from the given facts in the text. Moreover, you need to check the number of words because you are limited. A maximum number of words is always given.
10) Matching information
This is quite an easy question. All that is required of you here is to find some given information and place it where it fits.
These are the main type of questions so practice doing some tests to make sure that you are ready for your test.