Academic Reading
Quick Diagnostic
Before you start
- passage
- 1
- questions
- 6
- minutes
- 9
9 minutes, one clock. The timer starts when you press Start and the test submits itself at zero.
No extra transfer time — type answers directly. There is no answer sheet to copy onto. Whatever is in the answer boxes when time runs out is what gets marked.
Spelling and word limits count. A misspelt answer, or one longer than the instructions allow, scores zero even when the idea is right.
Highlight as you read. Select any text in a passage and press Highlight. Click a highlight to remove it.
Flag and come back. Use the bar at the bottom to jump between questions, flag the ones you are unsure of and see what is still blank.
- Passage 1Questions 1–6
Your band will be an estimate
Your raw score is converted with the published Academic Reading band table. Real papers are calibrated individually, so the raw score needed for each band shifts a little from test to test — treat this as a guide, not a prediction. This is a shortened set: the estimate is scaled up from 6 questions, so it is rougher than one from a full 40-question test.