Two complete Academic Reading papers, written to the Cambridge specification and sat in a timed split-screen exactly as the computer-delivered test presents it. Every one of the 40 questions comes back with the paragraph the answer lives in and an explanation of why each wrong option was placed where it was.
The nineteenth-century trade in natural ice; the psychology of waiting in line; and the argument that the lone inventor never existed.
The underground water channels of the Iranian plateau; dating the past by counting tree rings; and what happens to a measurement once it becomes a target.
Twenty-eight ways a Reading question is made hard, each one taken from a task Cambridge published itself, each paired with the counter-move. Read it after your first paper, not before.
Every paper you finish is recorded with the pattern behind each mark you dropped, so you can see which two or three mechanisms are actually costing you the band. No account, nothing uploaded.
Every passage here was written for this site. These are not scanned Cambridge past papers. Nobody may lawfully hand you one of those, and a site offering them is distributing someone else's copyright.
Three passages of 2,150–2,750 words rising in difficulty, 40 marks split 13 + 13 + 14, sixty minutes with no transfer time, and question types drawn from the same eleven the real paper uses.
A wrong answer in Reading is rarely a failure to understand English. It is a mechanism someone placed there. Each item here was written to a named pattern, and the answer page tells you which one it was.
Scores convert through the standard Academic table. But a real paper is pre-tested on thousands of candidates and these have not been, so read the band as a position, not a prediction.