IELTS Reading Tests

Topic Previews

Original IELTS Reading topic previews collected by category for quick practice selection.

Reading Full Mock 1

Exam mode with timer, highlights, notes, answer checking, and instant score review.

• 3 passages
• 40 questions
• Band-style score summary

Reading Full Mock 2

Full reading mock with biodiversity, solar energy, and reading instruction passages.

• Bovids
• Photovoltaics on the rooftop
• How should reading be taught?

Reading Full Mock 3

Full reading mock with bamboo, renewable energy, and fan psychology passages.

• The Wonder Plant
• Renewable Energy
• Inside the Mind of a Fan

Reading Full Mock 4

Full reading mock with agriculture, water filters, and climate change passages.

• The Pesticide-Free Village
• Clean Water for Millions
• Putting the Brakes on Climate Change

Reading Full Mock 5

Full reading mock with ancient cities, space exploration, and technology passages.

• Caral: an ancient South American city
• Should space be explored by robots or by humans?
• The dark side of the technological boom

Reading Full Mock 6

Full reading mock with adolescence, bees and flowers, and history education passages.

• Developmental Tasks of Normal Adolescence
• Bees and Flowers
• A new stage in the study and teaching of history

Reading Full Mock 7

Full reading mock with adolescence, bee economics, and history education passages.

• Developmental Tasks of Normal Adolescence
• The True Cost of Bees
• A new stage in the study and teaching of history

Reading Full Mock 8

Full reading mock with underground answers, violin science, and music perception passages.

• Answers Underground
• Science and the Stradivarius
• When people are deaf to music

Reading Full Mock 9

Full reading mock with literature, Australian parrots, and yawning science passages.

• Katherine Mansfield
• Australian parrots
• Yawning

Reading Full Mock 10

Full reading mock with food deserts, dingo research, and Pacific navigation passages.

• How to find your way out of a food desert
• The dingo debate
• Pacific navigation and voyaging

Reading Full Mock 11

Full reading mock with food history, the arts, and mother tongue education passages.

• A Brief History of Humans and Food
• Why do we need the arts?
• The significant role of mother tongue language in education

Reading Full Mock 12

Full reading mock with a historic polymath, fashion industry, and prehistoric flight passages.

• The last man who knew everything
• The fashion industry
• How a prehistoric predator took to the skies

Reading Full Mock 13

Full reading mock with advertising, sustainable farming, and water fluoridation passages.

• Advertising needs attention
• Growing more for less
• The fluoridation controversy

Reading Full Mock 14

Full reading mock with social classification, corporate responsibility, and naturalist passages.

• Classifying Societies
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Amateur Naturalists

Reading Full Mock 15

Full reading mock with castle building, celebrity studies, and headphone-use passages.

• Building a Castle
• A Study of Western Celebrity
• Some Views on the Use of Headphones

Reading Full Mock 16

Full reading mock with Maori medicine, classical music, and mind mapping passages.

• Traditional Maori Medicine
• Classical Music Over the Centuries
• Mapping the Mind

Reading Full Mock 17

Full reading mock with survival, ideal homes, and conformity passages.

• A survivor’s story
• Ideal Homes
• Conformity

Reading Full Mock 18

Full reading mock with ocean listening research, building design, and information-age marketing passages.

• Listening to the Ocean
• Boring Buildings
• Marketing and the Information Age

Reading Full Mock 19

Full reading mock with later school starts, trade history, and New Zealand textile crafts passages.

• Starting school later has positive effects on teens
• Born to trade
• New Zealand home textile crafts of the 1930s to 1950s

Reading Full Mock 20

Full reading mock with Roman archaeology, insect decision-making, and fear research passages.

• Fishbourne Roman Palace
• Insect decision-making
• Fear of the Unknown

Reading Full Mock 21

Full reading mock with paper history, urban park design, and fear analysis passages.

• The Origin of Paper
• A New Look for Talbot Park
• The Analysis of Fear

Reading Full Mock 22

Full reading mock with museum blockbusters, bittern conservation, and placebo-effect passages.

• The Blockbuster Phenomenon: a new museum trend
• Saving the Bittern
• The Placebo Effect

Reading Full Mock 23

Full reading mock with computer games, art engineering, and evolutionary psychology passages.

• Computer games
• Art and engineering
• Evolutionary psychology in the workplace

Reading Full Mock 24

Full reading mock with paper history, park design, and fear-analysis passages.

• The Origin of Paper
• A new look for Talbot Park
• The Analysis of Fear