IELTS Reading · Academic · Computer-delivered

IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 1: Urban farming, Forest management in Pennsylvania, USA, Conquering Earth's space junk problem

This is IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 1 on the computer-delivered screen, with 3 passages: Urban farming, Forest management in Pennsylvania, USA, Conquering Earth's space junk problem. You can start it free in your browser — no download.

• 60 minutes
• 40 questions
• Reading passages on screen

What is in this test

• Passage 1

  Urban farming

  A rooftop farm in Paris grows food without soil, and the passage asks how much of a city's food this kind of farming could realistically supply.

• Passage 2

  Forest management in Pennsylvania, USA

  How foresters in Pennsylvania decide which trees to cut and which to leave, and why deer numbers changed the shape of the forest.

• Passage 3

  Conquering Earth's space junk problem

  Thousands of dead satellites and fragments now orbit the Earth, and engineers are testing ways to catch them before they collide.

Question types in this test

This test uses 6 of the Reading question types. Each one links to what it asks for and the mistakes that cost marks:

• Matching headings
• Matching information to paragraphs
• Sentence completion
• Summary completion
• Table completion
• True / False / Not Given

Timing and marking

You get 60 minutes for all 40 questions, and there is no extra time at the end to copy answers across — on screen, what you type is already your answer.

There are 40 questions, one mark each, so your raw score is out of 40. The results screen shows which questions you got right, grouped by question type, so you can see where the marks went.

What is different on a computer

The passage sits on one side and the questions on the other, with a divider you can drag. You select text and highlight it instead of underlining with a pencil, and you can search the passage. Practising that is the point of this site.