Academic Reading Tests (with tutorials)

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Academic Reading Tests

  • English Level B2-C2.
  • 12-15 hour course.
  • 5 lessons (2 hours each).
  • 800-word academic texts.
  • Vocabulary building.
  • Summary note-taking skills.
  • Summary writing.
  • Summary writing tutorials.
  • Duration: 60 Days.

This reading test course is designed to improve your reading skills through in-depth reading and summary writing. There are five reading texts on a range of subjects with comprehension questions (open answer questions, gap fill, table completion and multiple choice) to check your understanding, summary note-taking and summary writing. This course will give you authentic university reading practice.

Summary Writing Tutorials: What are summary writing tutorials? Once you have written your summary, you send it to us to check. We will provide valuable feedback on your writing in terms of task, grammar, vocabulary, cohesion and coherence. There is a email form at the end of each lesson where you copy and paste your summary to send to us. We return your work within 1-2 days with tutor comments and advice.

What will you learn on this course?

  • You will learn how to reading an academic text.
  • You will improve your academic vocabulary.
  • You will learn to identify main points and subsidiary ideas.
  • You will learn how to identify opinion and the author’s stance.
  • You will practice summary note-taking and summary writing.
  • You will have the opportunity to receive feedback on your writing to improve your writing skills.
  • Course duration: 60 days.

Who is this course for?

  • Level B2 (upper-intermediate) to C2 (advanced) Learners.
  • Second language speakers who want to improve their reading skills.
  • International students who want to go to an English speaking university.
  • International students who are studying at an English speaking university.
  • Anyone who wants to improve their academic reading skills.

An example of a reading test booklet

The 700-word text provides a clear definition of ethical consumerism, discusses what is and what isn’t ethical consumerism and summarises the future of ethical consumption. The reading test worksheet tests headings / T,F,NG / open answers / gap fill / information tables / reference words / vocabulary. Level ***** (B2-C2)


There are five lessons included in this course with each lesson taking approximately 2 hours to complete. You have to do the course in order of each lecture 1-5. When you complete the course, you will receive a certificate.

Duration: This course lasts for 60 days once you pay. Therefore, you have 60 days to the complete all 5 lessons.



Course Content

The course consists of ten lessons. Each lesson includes a digital lesson booklet to download.

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Task 1: Introduction
There will be four or five questions to introduce you to the topic.

Task 1: Introduction
Do some research and take some notes on the following questions:

Task 2:
Reading

Task 2: Reading text
Read the 800-word text and check any unknown vocabulary

Air Pollution Text Example
Task 3: Comp Questions
In this section, you are give a range of different question types to answer about the text (T/F/NG, multiple choice, multiple matching, open answers, summaries, table completion, stance and opinion)

Task 3: Task 3: Comprehension Questions
Now see if you can answer these comprehension questions
Air Pollution Comprehension Question Example

Task 4: Summary Notes
The next section is preparation for summary writing. You should know the text very well by now after completing the comprehension questions. So, this task is to take notes on the main ideas.

Task 4: Summary Writing
Take notes on the key points of the text using this outline

Summary table
Summary Notes Answers
Task 5: The Summary
After you have taken notes on the text, you use these notes to write a summary

Task 5: Summary Writing
Using your notes write a 200-250-word summary of the text.

Summary Writing Example
Task 6: Writing Tutorial

Task 6: Summary Writing Tutorial
Copy and paste your summary into this form and submit

Summary Writing Form
Summary Feedback and Return
Your summary will be checked by academic tutors. We will look at task, grammar, vocabulary, cohesion and coherence. We will give you valuable feedback to improve your writing skills quickly. It will take approximately 1-2 days to return the summary back to you.
Don’t use AI / translation software to write your summary. Please write it by yourself so we can help improve your writing.
Completed
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