IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 28

A complete 40-question Academic Reading paper: the North Karelia Project, which set out to cut heart disease in a Finnish province, experiments testing whether New Zealand's kea parrots can reason about chance, and what kind of congestion charge the voters of Geneva might accept. Seven question types, one hour, and a band score the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: 60 min
Marked: Instantly

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Exam conditionsThe passage as the paper prints it, and 60 minutes on the clock.PracticeThe same passage and the same questions, with the harder words marked in the text — hover or tap one for its meaning, in English or in your own language. You can check your answers as you go. The clock counts up rather than down, and nothing is handed in for you.

The clock starts when you press the button.