General Training — Reading
Five 90-minute sessions built on the texts General Training actually uses — community notices, job advertisements, staff handbooks and one long general-interest article. Every practice set here is marked on the General Training band scale, not the Academic one.
Sessions
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Day 1
Section 1 — Social Survival & the Scanning Habit How the GT paper is built, the 15/20/25 time budget, and finding facts in notices, advertisements and listings.
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Day 2
Completion Tasks & the Word Limit Note, table and sentence completion. Why “ONE WORD ONLY” is a scoring rule, not a suggestion.
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Day 3
Section 2 — Workplace Survival Staff handbooks, contracts and training documents. Conditions, exceptions, and matching headings to sections.
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Day 4
Section 3 — The Long Text Where band 7 is won or lost. True/False/Not Given versus Yes/No/Not Given, and summary completion.
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Day 5
Full GT Reading Mock & Error Analysis Three sections, 40 questions, 60 minutes, marked on the General Training scale. Then a structured post-mortem.
Tools & reference
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Mock
Full GT Reading Mock 40 questions, 60 minutes, in the computer-delivered test player.
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Sheet
GT Answer Sheet Printable numbered answer sheet laid out by GT section.