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Passage 1 contains a fact most candidates get wrong on first reading: the world's crop diversity was already stored before the Svalbard vault existed, in seventeen hundred gene banks. The vault is a backup of a backup. Two of the True/False/Not Given items turn on whether you noticed that.
Passage 2 is about deadlines, and it will describe your own behaviour back to you. It argues that leaving work late is not a failure of discipline but an accurate response to how the brain values distant events — and that under some conditions it produces better work. Read it after you finish the test.
Three passages, 40 questions. The Svalbard seed vault and the one time it was used; what the research on deadlines actually shows; and three specialists disagreeing about closing city centres to cars. Note completion, True/False/Not Given, matching headings, sentence completion, and matching statements to people.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Vault at the End of the World Why the world keeps a copy of its crops inside a mountain Nine hundred miles from the North Pole, on a Norwegian island where polar bears outnumber people, a concrete corridor runs a hundred metres into the side of a mountain. At the end of it, behind five sets of locked doors, sit around a million samples of seed. The…
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It is an original practice test written to the same format, question types and timing as the official IELTS reading paper. It is not a past paper.
Allow 60 minutes, the same as the real exam. Practising under time pressure is most of the value.
Yes. All 40 answers are shown as soon as you finish, along with a breakdown of which kind of mistake cost you marks.
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See scores, strengths, weak areas and progress after each practice.
Azmoon AI recommends the smartest task for your next study session.
Follow a personalised route based on your target band and progress.
Track improvement across Task 1 and Task 2 over time.
Set your display preferences for Azmoon.