IELTS Reading · General Training · Computer-delivered

IELTS General Training Reading Practice Test 1: Arriving in Singapore by plane, Tax refunds for visitors to Singapore, Singapore Guide, Writing a personal CV that will attract employers, The value of being organised at work, A significant development in mining safety

This is IELTS General Training Reading Practice Test 1 on the computer-delivered screen, with 6 texts: Arriving in Singapore by plane, Tax refunds for visitors to Singapore, Singapore Guide, Writing a personal CV that will attract employers, The value of being organised at work, A significant development in mining safety. You can start it free in your browser — no download.

• 60 minutes
• 40 questions
• Reading passages on screen

What is in this test

• Text 1

  Arriving in Singapore by plane

  Airport notices for arriving passengers: what to declare, where to queue, and how to get into the city.

• Text 2

  Tax refunds for visitors to Singapore

  How the 3% Goods and Services Tax works for visitors: which shops refund it, what you have to spend to qualify, and how to claim at the airport.

• Text 3

  Singapore Guide

  A short visitor guide to getting around the city, with opening times and transport notes.

• Text 4

  Writing a personal CV that will attract employers

  Workplace advice on what to put in a CV, what to leave out, and how to lay it out.

• Text 5

  The value of being organised at work

  Why tidy systems save time at work, written as staff guidance rather than an argument.

• Text 6

  A significant development in mining safety

  A longer piece on one safety invention that changed underground mining and the people behind it.

Question types in this test

This test uses 7 of the Reading question types. Each one links to what it asks for and the mistakes that cost marks:

• Matching features
• Matching headings
• Note completion
• Multiple choice (one answer)
• Sentence completion
• Summary 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.