IELTS Reading Multiple Choice Question Practice

IELTS Reading - Multiple Choice Question Task

You are given questions, which have to be answered by choosing from the given options. Your task is to carefully read the given passage and choose the correct option.

There are 2 types of questions with MCQs in IELTS – one where there are multiple correct answers, and one where there is just one correct answer.

IELTS MCQ Sample Task

Find the reading passage at this link to the official IELTS page: https://www.ielts.org/-/media/pdfs/pb-sample-test-materials/academic-reading-sample-task-identifying-information-true-false-not-given.ashx?la=en. Then come back and answer the following questions.

Choose TWO letters, A-F. Write the correct letters in boxes 1 and 2 on your answer sheet.

Marie Curie’s accomplishments include:

1. The sole winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903

2. The sole winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911

3. Sole woman to win a Nobel Prize 

4. The first woman to attend the Sorbonne University

5. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize

6. First woman in her family to go to university

Write the correct letter, A, B, C, or D

2. Marie Curie first met Pierre Curie in:

1. Summer of 1894

2. Spring of 1894

3. Spring of 1893

4. Autumn of 1893

Read till the end for the answers!

How to Solve the Task?

Follow these steps:

1. Read the questions and options.

2. Keeping the question and options in mind, read the passage carefully. 

3. Make note of/mark all the places where you find information that comes close to the given options. 

4. Review the passage again to finalize your answer. 

5. Fill in the answer.

Tips and Tricks

• Cross out the wrong options. There are two ways to identify the wrong option: a) that information will not appear at all b) that information will directly contradict the passage.

• Don’t search for the exact wording of each option in the passage. The information may be spread out across 2-3 sentences, or maybe written completely differently. Pay attention to meaning.

Correct answers: 1) B, E  2) B