IELTS Online: Course

2 Specific Information questions

Specific Information questions are used to test your ability to locate or identify particular details in the reading passage. These details could be such basic pieces of information as names, dates and places. However, the details are usually more complex ideas.

The question types that are used to test your ability to identify these details are:

• Multiple Choice questions
• Short Answer questions
• Sentence Completion questions
• True/False/Not Given questions
• Information Location questions
• Diagram/Flow Chart/Table Completion questions.

Let's start by looking at the first of these question types, Multiple Choice.