IELTS Reading · General Training · Computer-delivered

IELTS General Training Reading Practice Test 2: What to do if your clothes have been lost or damaged by a dry cleaner, Groups for readers and writers, Mechanical lifting equipment, Dealing with customer complaints, White storks back in Britain after hundreds of years

This is IELTS General Training Reading Practice Test 2 on the computer-delivered screen, with 5 texts: What to do if your clothes have been lost or damaged by a dry cleaner, Groups for readers and writers, Mechanical lifting equipment, Dealing with customer complaints, White storks back in Britain after hundreds of years. 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

  What to do if your clothes have been lost or damaged by a dry cleaner

  Your rights as a customer, step by step, and who to contact if the shop will not help.

• Text 2

  Groups for readers and writers

  Notices for several local book and writing groups, with times, costs and who each one suits.

• Text 3

  Mechanical lifting equipment

  Workplace rules for using lifting machines safely, including checks before each shift.

• Text 4

  Dealing with customer complaints

  Staff training text on handling an unhappy customer without making the problem worse.

• Text 5

  White storks back in Britain after hundreds of years

  A longer article on the project that brought breeding white storks back to southern England.

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 headings
• Matching information to paragraphs
• Note completion
• Multiple choice (one answer)
• Summary completion
• True / False / Not Given
• Table completion

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.