Academic Reading Passage

IELTS Academic Reading test has three reading texts or passages that come with 40 or 41 questions in total. Each reading passage has around 13 questions. You need to answer these questions within an hour. Some useful techniques like skimming, scanning, understanding suggested meaning, guessing, eliminating wrong options etc. help you answer these questions within the stipulated time. IELTS Mentor website has a really large collection of Academic IELTS Reading passages that you can practice to prepare well for your original test.

Title Modified Date
Academic Reading # 111 - The meaning and power of smell 04 August 2022
Academic Reading # 115 - Striking Back at Lightning with Lasers 04 August 2022
Academic Reading # 116 - The Nature of Genius 04 August 2022
Academic Reading # 117 - How Does The Biological Clock Tick? 04 August 2022
Academic Reading # 120 - Land of the Rising Sum 04 August 2022
Academic Reading # 119 - Biological Control of Pests 04 August 2022
Academic Reading # 118 - Collecting Ant Specimens 04 August 2022
IELTS Essay # 500 - In some countries the average weight of people is increasing 04 August 2022
Academic Reading # 48 - William Henry Perkin 05 August 2022
Academic Reading # 49 - Is There Anybody Out There 08 August 2022
Academic Reading # 51 - The History of the Tortoise 08 August 2022
IELTS Academic Reading # 52 09 August 2022
Academic Reading 53 - Venus in Transit 09 August 2022
Academic Reading # 50 - A Neuroscientist reveals how to think differently 09 August 2022
Academic Reading # 54 - Attitudes to language 09 August 2022
Academic Reading 55 - Tidal Power 09 August 2022
Academic Reading # 56 - Information theory- the big idea 09 August 2022
Academic Reading # 57 - The life and work of Marie Curie 09 August 2022
Academic Reading # 58 - Young children's sense of identity 09 August 2022
Academic Reading # 59 - The Development of Museums 09 August 2022