Aptis for Teens: Reading Test Practice

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Aptis for Teens Reading Test Practice

This post on Aptis for Teens Reading Test practice gives you an overview of each part of the test. It includes practice exercises and we also give you some tips on how to pass it. 

There are four parts to the Aptis for Teens Reading Test, and four question-types.  The questions get progressively more difficult as you move through the exam.  It takes 30 mins to complete the 25 reading questions component of the test.

As with the rest of the test, the content is designed specifically for teenagers. This means that the questions relate to themes and scenarios that teenagers could come across.

So let’s have a look at the four parts and question-types.

Aptis for Teens Reading Test

Part 1:  Sentence comprehension

This is the easiest part of the reading test.  It takes the form of a very short informal email, note or letter.  There are six gaps in the text, and the first gap is filled for you as an example.  You have to fill the remaining five gaps by choosing the correct word from a selection of three.

Tip:  Read each of the three options of the multiple choice questions carefully before deciding how to fill the gap.

Part 2:  Text cohesion 

You have to put six sentences in the correct order to form a very short text.  The first sentence is done for you as an example. There’s only one correct way to organise the sentences.  In the text you’ll find clues to help you with the activity.

Tip:  These clues could be:

Sequencing words: then, after, before, next, etc.

Numerical information: times, dates, ages, the first, the second, etc.

Logical structure: you go to bed, then you wake up, etc.

The texts are often about everyday activities – for example, taking a train journey.  So using your common sense can help (you need to buy the ticket, get on the train, sit in your seat, show your ticket to the ticket collector, etc).

Part 3:  Opinion matching

You will read four short texts that give the opinions of four different people (A, B, C and D) on the same topic.  Then you read seven statements and you have to match each statement to one of the four opinions.  The questions are of this kind:  ‘Who said …?’, ‘Who thinks …?’

Tip: Read all four opinions fully before you start to match the statements.  Sometimes the statements contain the same words as one of the opinions, but that doesn’t always mean it’s the answer.

Part 4: Long text comprehension 

This is the final and most difficult part of the reading test.  In this part you read a long text of seven paragraphs (a total of around 750 words).  You then read eight paragraph headings, and you have to choose the best heading for each paragraph.  There will be one heading that you won’t need, as it doesn’t match any of the paragraphs.

Tip:  The paragraphs are numbered, and you have to select the number of the paragraph from the drop-down box next to each heading.

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