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Old Roast Duck IELTS 3000 Q&A Series: Is IELTS Reading More and More Difficult? Students who pay attention to the IELTS exam may find that after each exam, there is [...]

Old Roast Duck IELTS 3000 Q&A Series: Is IELTS Reading More and More Difficult?

Students who pay attention to the dynamics of IELTS may find that after each exam, some candidates say that the reading questions are more difficult than those in Cambridge IELTS or their last exam. Is IELTS reading more and more difficult to adapt to the growing English ability of everyone?

Answer: Not like this. Like listening, IELTS reading has a huge question bank（ Will the IELTS question bank have timeliness ）。 Each exam will draw questions from it to form an exam paper. The question bank is also constantly updated. This means that the reading articles you encounter in the examination room may be taken 10 years ago or recently published. According to the feedback from the statistics of the old roast duck editor, no more students complained about the difficulty of the test when taking the new question than when taking the old one. In other words, the IELTS official has done a good job in controlling the difficulty of the topic, and has maintained a roughly uniform level for more than ten years.

However, we do have to admit that there are differences in the difficulty of IELTS reading topics between different sessions. Generally speaking, when there are more matching and multiple choice questions, it will be harder, and when there are more blank filling questions, it will be easier. But there is no rule for this difference. There is no one simple, one difficult; Or the situation that simple questions are given after the difficult ones. So we still don't have expectations in this regard. It is the king's way to review conscientiously and consolidate the foundation.

The above is a detailed answer to "Is IELTS reading getting more and more difficult?" I hope it will be helpful to you.