ILEC 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 interpretation of specific cases, and are drawn from law textbooks, reference books, articles, journals and website information.
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
- Where is the text taken from?
- How much of the first paragraph does Question 49 refer to?
- Is the answer to Question 50 located solely in the last sentence of the second paragraph?
- How is the information in the incomplete sentence in Question 51 and correct option C paraphrased in the third paragraph?
- What is the purpose of Question 52?
- What are the challenges to students of the Part 6 task?