Practice
Each text is a third of a Paper 2 reading, on a suggested time. Check your answers at the end, then see why each one is right.
Standard level
One text each, on the five themes, with every Paper 2 question type
- Learning a grandmother's languageIdentities · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A student's clay coolerHuman ingenuity · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A young town councillorSocial organization · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Volunteering on the beachSharing the planet · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A long train journey across IndiaExperiences · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A speech about the school fieldSharing the planet · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
Higher level
Longer, harder texts, including literary extracts, with more questions on attitude and words in context
- Retiring the phrase 'not a maths person'Identities · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A summer of night shiftsExperiences · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Farming on the roof of a car parkHuman ingenuity · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A town lets a lottery decideSocial organization · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- The slough at the bottom of the fieldSharing the planet · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Thirty days without a map appExperiences · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
Writing
- Paper 1 tasks16 tasks at SL and HL, each with three text types, instant checks and a model answer