Authentic CBT format with split-screen layout, 60-minute live timer, text highlighting, and instant estimated band score — just like the real computer-delivered IELTS exam.
Duration60 Minutes
Questions40 Total
Passages3 Academic
FormatComputer-Based
Band Score0 – 9
📖 About This Practice Test
This Computer-Based IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 22 faithfully replicates the conditions of the official IELTS Academic CBT examination. It contains three reading passages drawn from authentic academic sources.
Passage 1 covers Prison: The Solution or the Problem?. Passage 2 covers Physiology and Criminality. Passage 3 covers Jack the Ripper: A Bungled Investigation?.
The split-screen interface lets you read each passage on the left while answering questions on the right — exactly mirroring the official computer-delivered IELTS experience. On submission, you receive a full breakdown including estimated band score and a question-by-question answer review.
🖊 Text Highlighting — Just Like the Real IELTS CBT
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Select any text in the reading passage on the left panel by clicking and dragging your mouse over any word, phrase or sentence you want to mark.
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A floating toolbar will appear above your selection with a yellow 🖊 Highlight button. Click it to apply the highlight instantly.
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The highlight is saved permanently for that passage — it stays visible even after you click elsewhere, scroll, or switch sections and come back.
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To remove a highlight: click on any highlighted text — the toolbar reappears with a red ✕ Remove button.
Floating toolbar example →appears above your selection
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Real CBT Interface
Split-screen mirrors the official IELTS CBT with independent scrolling panels.
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Text Highlighting
Select passage text and click Highlight. Highlights persist across section switches.
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60-Minute Timer
Countdown timer with colour warnings at 10 and 5 minutes remaining.
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Instant Band Score
Estimated IELTS Academic band score calculated the moment you submit.
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Full Answer Review
Every answer reviewed with correct answers shown clearly for all 40 questions.
Test Passages
P1
Q1–13 Prison: Solution or Problem?
P2
Q14–26 Physiology and Criminality
P3
Q27–40 Jack the Ripper
📌 Test Instructions
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Read each passage on the left panel. Answer questions on the right panel. Both panels scroll independently.
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Attempt all 40 questions. There is no penalty for wrong answers, so always attempt every question.
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Highlight text: select any passage text → a toolbar appears → click 🖊 Highlight. Click highlighted text to remove it. Use the 📝 Notepad icon at the top to jot down your own notes — they save automatically as you type.
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For fill-in-the-blank questions, type only the number of words specified. Use only words from the passage.
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The timer auto-submits at 60 minutes. Use the Submit Test button to submit early.
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Use tabs at top to switch passages, and numbered dots at the bottom to jump to any question.
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IELTS Academic Reading — Practice Test 22
Computer-Based IELTS · 3 Passages · 40 Questions
0 / 40 answered
100%
60:00
Notes
Results — IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 22
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Test Candidate, here are your Academic Reading results
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