Academic SELT Reading
Four parts, 30 questions and 50 minutes covering vocabulary in context, gap completion, missing sentences, linked short texts and academic argumentation.
Choose first, then prepare the right test
Start with the route's required skills and CEFR level. Four-skill Academic and General tests and the two-skill A1-A2-B1 suite are not interchangeable.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Reading begins with local vocabulary and gap choices, then progresses to text cohesion, cross-text information and longer academic argument.
Exam cue: Check grammar, meaning and collocation for every word or gap option.
Concept 2
A missing sentence must fit reference words, logic and paragraph development, not only topic vocabulary.
Exam cue: Use pronouns, transitions and repeated concepts to restore removed sentences.
Concept 3
Long-text answers require locating evidence and understanding argument, stance and relationship between claims.
Exam cue: Label the role of each paragraph before answering argument questions.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Choosing a synonym that is grammatically or collocationally wrong.
Guardrail: Use a 15-second safety pause before finalizing your action.
Matching a removed sentence by subject alone while ignoring cohesion.
Guardrail: Use a 15-second safety pause before finalizing your action.
Answering from outside academic knowledge instead of the supplied text.
Guardrail: Use a 15-second safety pause before finalizing your action.
Memory anchors
Thirty in Fifty
Academic Reading has 30 questions in 50 minutes.
Local Fit
Vocabulary choices must fit meaning, grammar and collocation.
Sentence Bridge
A removed sentence must connect what comes before and after.
Four Texts
Cross-text questions require keeping sources separate.
Argument Map
Identify claim, support, contrast and conclusion.
Text Evidence
Choose from the passage, not background knowledge.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What distinction does preregistration make more visible?
How does the author answer the criticism that preregistration blocks curiosity?
Answer all questions to submit.
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