IELTS True / False / Not Given Practice
IELTS Academic · Academic Reading · 17 free exercises
You decide whether a statement agrees with the passage (True), contradicts it (False), or is simply absent (Not Given). It is the question type that separates careful readers from confident guessers, because False and Not Given feel almost identical under time pressure.
How to approach it
- False means the passage says the opposite. Not Given means the passage does not say. If you are arguing from what is likely, it is Not Given.
- Answer from the passage alone. Everything you know about the topic is a trap here.
- The statements follow the order of the text, so you never need to search the whole passage.
- Watch qualifiers — "all", "only", "always", "never". A statement that overstates the text is False, not True.
- Yes/No/Not Given works identically, but tests the writer’s opinions rather than facts.
All True / False / Not Given exercises
Cambridge IELTS 11 Academic, Cambridge University Press
- 'This Marvellous Invention' — Test 4, Passage 3
- An Introduction to Film Sound — Test 4, Passage 2
- Crop-growing skyscrapers — Test 1, Passage 1
- Great Migrations — Test 3, Passage 2
- Neuroaesthetics — Test 2, Passage 3
- Raising the Mary Rose — Test 2, Passage 1
- Research using twins — Test 4, Passage 1
- The Falkirk Wheel — Test 1, Passage 2
- The Story of Silk — Test 3, Passage 1
Cambridge IELTS 12 Academic, Cambridge University Press
- Bring Back the Big Cats — Test 8, Passage 2
- Collecting as a Hobby — Test 5, Passage 2
- Cork — Test 5, Passage 1
- The Benefits of Being Bilingual — Test 6, Passage 3
- The History of Glass — Test 8, 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