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 39 faithfully replicates the conditions of the official IELTS Academic CBT examination. It contains three reading passages drawn from authentic academic sources, covering topics in sport science careers, renewable energy economics, and Bronze Age archaeology.
Passage 1 examines the psychological difference between density and crowding, and the research into how crowded environments affect human behaviour. Passage 2 looks at the surprising cognitive benefits video games may offer the brain. Passage 3 explores how engineers and designers are mimicking nature’s own solutions to build more efficient, sustainable technology.
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 Sport Science in Australia
P2
Q14–26 Micro-Wind Turbines
P3
Q27–40 Pottery Production in Akrotiri
📌 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 39
Computer-Based IELTS · 3 Passages · 40 Questions
0 / 40 answered
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Results — IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 39
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Test Candidate, here are your Academic Reading results
IELTS Academic Reading Practice Test 39 · Completed on —