IELTS Matching Headings Practice
IELTS Academic · Academic Reading · 8 free exercises
You match a list of headings to the paragraphs of a passage. There are always more headings than paragraphs, and the distractors are written to match a single sentence rather than the paragraph as a whole.
How to approach it
- Find each paragraph’s main idea, not its most memorable detail — the distractors are built from details.
- Read the whole heading list first so you know which ones compete with each other.
- Do the easy paragraphs first and eliminate as you go; the remaining choices narrow fast.
- A heading that matches one sentence but not the paragraph’s argument is the wrong one.
All Matching Headings exercises
Cambridge IELTS 11 Academic, Cambridge University Press
- 'This Marvellous Invention' — Test 4, Passage 3
- What destroyed the civilisation of Easter Island? — Test 2, Passage 2
Cambridge IELTS 12 Academic, Cambridge University Press
- Flying Tortoises — Test 7, Passage 1
- The Lost City of the Incas — Test 6, Passage 2
- UK Companies Need More Effective Boards of Directors — Test 8, Passage 3
- What's the Purpose of Gaining Knowledge? — Test 5, Passage 3