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
- Growing up between two countriesIdentities · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A school greenhouse that waters itselfHuman ingenuity · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Paying with hours: a neighbourhood time bankSocial organization · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A term on the other side of the oceanExperiences · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Save the trees in the market squareSharing the planet · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- The school with nine pupilsSocial organization · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
Higher level
Longer, harder texts, including literary extracts, with more questions on attitude and words in context
- A heritage speaker stops apologisingIdentities · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- A summer in the village bakeryExperiences · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- The woman who records a cityHuman ingenuity · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- Teenagers with a public budgetSocial organization · 13 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- What the reservoir gave backSharing the planet · 14 questions, suggested 20 minutes
- My gap year, one year onExperiences · 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