Reading Pack 10 Tests v2

IELTS ACADEMIC · BAND 8 PLAN Academic Reading — 10 Practice Tests R01–R10 · denser than the Cambridge books, on purpose Prepared for Md Ahbab Hamid Khan · Dhaka, Bangladesh IELTS Academic, computer-delivered · target Band 8.0 overall Plan runs 18 August 2026 – 16 January 2027 File 07 · Revised edition, typeset in LATEX By Md Ahbab (https://ahbab.dev) Page 1 of 176

Academic Reading — 10 Practice Tests How to use this pack These ten tests are harder than the Cambridge books on purpose — the passages are denser, the paraphrase gaps are wider, and there are more NOT GIVEN items than a real paper usually carries. If they feel tough, that is correct. How to use this pack • Follow the week given in 01_Syllabus_22_Weeks. Do not race ahead. • Sit each test once, in 60 minutes, with no dictionary and no pauses. A test you have already read cannot give you a real score. • Mark it the same day. Read the Answer Key and the Timing and Strategy Debrief in full — that is where the learning is. • Put every wrong answer into your error log in 05_Trackers, with its category code. The timing you are training Passage Questions Time Clock check 1 1–13 16 minutes start Passage 2 at 16 min 2 14–26 19 minutes start Passage 3 at 35 min 3 27–40 22 minutes stop and guess at 57 min Check — 3 minutes fill every blank Splitting the pack with your partner You take tests 1–5 first. Your partner takes 6–10 first. Then swap. This way neither of you ever sees a passage before sitting it. Do not judge your band from these tests alone. Use Cambridge papers for your true score an

Academic Reading — 10 Practice Tests How to use this pack Reading Test 1 — Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Passage 1 — The Coming of Uniform Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Passage 2 — The Economics of Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Passage 3 — The Architecture of Expertise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Reading Test 1 — Timing and Strategy Debrief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Recommended time split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The three items most likely to be lost by a band-7 candidate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Vocabulary worth banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Reading Test 1 — Band Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Reading Test 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Reading Test 2 — Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25