ICFE Reading – Part 6

Task Description

What do candidates have to do?
Read a text and answer six multiple-choice questions about it.

What texts are used?
Texts usually contain some opinion or analysis of practices / events and are mainly taken from reference books and financial textbooks, financial newspapers and journals, financial websites, company annual reports and research reports.

What is being tested?
Candidates have to display detailed understanding of a text and be able to interpret opinion and inference.

What specific reading skills are relevant?
Reading for detailed meaning, gist, opinion, implication and referencing

Understanding the Task

It may help you to work through a sample Part 6 task yourself. Use this task from the sample paper. As you complete it, think about the wording of the four options in relation to the text.

Sample Part 6 task (PDF)
Answers

Things to consider

  1. What is the text about?

  2. How much of the second paragraph does Question 50 refer to?

  3. Is the answer to Question 51 located solely in the penultimate sentence of the third paragraph?

  4. How is the information in Question 52 and correct option B paraphrased in the fourth paragraph?

  5. What is being tested in Question 54?

  6. What are the challenges to students of the Part 6 task?