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• Multiple Choice in IELTS Reading: Four Options, and the Variant That Wants Several

  Reading multiple choice gives four options where the Listening paper gives three, and the Academic paper carries a second form with a longer list where you choose more than one. The instructions are the only place that says how many.

  Reading10 Sept 2026

• Short Answer Questions: Where Spelling Costs the Mark

  Answers are words taken from the passage, inside the word limit, and the questions follow the order of the text. With no option list to choose from, this is the Reading type where a spelling error costs you a mark you had already found.

  Reading10 Sept 2026

• Summary, Note, Table and Flow Chart Completion: One Type, Four Shapes

  A summary, a set of notes, a table and a flow chart are one question type with one rule set: answers are words taken from the passage, inside the stated word limit, and they may not come in the passage's order.

  Reading10 Sept 2026

• Sentence Completion: Words From the Text, Inside the Word Limit

  Sentence completion is one of only four Reading types where IELTS states the questions follow the order of the text, which makes it the fastest type on the paper to work through. Academic lists it separately; General Training folds it into the completion type.

  Reading10 Sept 2026

• Diagram Label Completion: Turning a Description Into a Picture

  The diagram is built from a description the passage gives in prose, and the passage never mentions it. Read the drawing first, use its existing labels as anchors, and do not expect the answers in the passage's order.

  Reading10 Sept 2026

• Matching Features: When an Option Repeats and When It Is Not Used

  Some options are never used and others are used more than once, so crossing an option off once you have used it is the most expensive habit on this type. The answer is the person or thing the claim belongs to, not the one standing nearest the words you recognised.

  Reading9 Sept 2026

• Matching Information: How It Differs From Matching Headings

  Matching information asks which paragraph contains a specific detail, where matching headings asks what a paragraph is mainly about. A paragraph can answer more than one question here, which is the opposite of the heading rule.

  Reading9 Sept 2026

• Matching Sentence Endings: An Academic-Only Type That Follows the Text

  This type is on the Academic paper only, and it is one of four Reading types where IELTS states the questions follow the order of the text. Work forward through the passage and you never need to search backwards.

  ReadingAcademic9 Sept 2026

• Matching Headings: Finding the Main Idea, Not a Supporting One

  A heading has to match the paragraph's main idea, not a detail inside it. There are always more headings than paragraphs, no heading is used twice, and the wrong answer is usually a true statement about a supporting idea.

  Reading9 Sept 2026