The Test of Listening contains four parts. Each part requires the test taker to
listen to a recording (between 3 and 10 minutes) while answering a set of multiple-choice
questions about the recording. The four parts are of different and increasing difficulty
level, such that the first part is the easiest and the last the most difficult.
The recordings are of different types (e.g., dialogues, discussions, announcements,
lectures, etc) and different topics.
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The Test of Reading contains three parts. Each part requires the test taker to read
a text (of between 400 and 800 words) and answer a set of multiple-choice questions
about the text. The three parts are of different and increasing difficulty level,
such that the first part is the easiest and the last the most difficult. The texts
are of different types (e.g., news or magazine articles, extracts from academic
papers, essays, etc) and different topics.
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