Aptis reading Test: General Tips and Strategies

Part 3: Opinion matching
In part 3 there are four short texts of about 100 words. Each text is different but they all share the 
same theme. Each text will describe what someone likes or thinks. After the texts, there are seven 
statements. The task is to match the statement to the correct person. 
Part 4: Long text comprehension
Part four if the Aptis test is a long text of around 750 words. This tests your ability to understand 
the main ideas in long texts. The text is separated into eight paragraphs and you have eight headings. 
The first question will already be done and the task is to match the paragraph with a heading. Each 
heading will sum up what is in a paragraph and so there can only be one correct answer. 
Top Tips For The Reading Test
There are some things that you can do in order to improve your APTIS reading score. Improving 
your reading will raise the level of your English in general. 
Analyse context:
For example, the word ‘arduous’ does not appear in texts very often but 
look at this sentence. 
The children were extremely tired but relieved after their arduous journey.
Arduous comes before ‘journey’, and so it is probably an adjective. The journey made the children 
tired, and so ‘arduous’ must describe a journey that is tiring. They were ‘relieved’ when it had 
finished. Therefore, ‘arduous’ must mean tiring and difficult and must be a negative word.
 

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Be Aware Of Timing:
Don’t spend too long on one part. Learn to ‘pace yourself’ by 
practising the test at home using a timer. Learn the reading skills demonstrated and don’t spend large 
amounts of time trying to understand the complete text. 
Flag the question for later review if not sure: 
Remember you can always go back to a 
question and often something will become clearer if you stop concentrating on it for a moment.