Aptis reading Test: General Tips and Strategies

Skimming and scanning:
You should be able to skim and scan passages to do well in 
APTIS. Skimming is reading a text quickly to get a general idea. To look at the topics of each 
paragraph and decide briefly what the paragraph is about. Scanning is looking for specific 
information. When you have read the questions you may find that there is a name or number in the 
text that will lead you to the answer. You would then skim the text looking for that word before 
reading the information around it in detail. 
Getting used to difficult passages on a range of topics: 
Although most English tests do 
not require specific knowledge of a subject and will not you technical words, some passages can 
seem difficult. You can make sure that this becomes less of a problem by reading in English more 
and by reading texts similar in length and style to the ones you would find in the test. Doing this will 
help your writing as well. 
Practice as many APTIS practice tests as you can:
You can find practice tests online 
(check the exam library on our website) for free or you can buy APTIS practice test books online. 
You can find largest database of free APTIS reading tests in here.
APTIS Reading Part 2: Sample Questions, Tips And Strategy 
This article will help you answer APTIS reading part II: Text cohesion questions more effectively. 
On all versions of the APTIS reading papers you will be asked to put sentences into the correct 
order to make a story. 
Your job is to simply re-arrange the sentences so as whole story would make a sense.
Explanation
: Part 2 of the APTIS - Text Cohesion. 
In the part of the test you are given two different texts. Each text contains six sentences but only 
the first sentence is in its correct place at the start of the text. This is given to you as an example. The 
task is to put the sentences in each text into the correct order. To do this you have to know how 
sentences are connected.