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IELTS practice test

Here are 20 free IELTS-style questions with answers: short reading passages in the official question types, plus vocabulary and grammar. They’re our own questions, not official ones. IELTS has no pass mark, so we use 70% as a target, which is 14 right. Each answer quotes the line of the passage that gives it away and says why the other options don’t fit, which is where True/False/Not Given catches most people. The questions you get wrong come back at the end.

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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

Question 1 of 20

The Harlow Community Garden opened in 2019 on land that had been a car park for more than thirty years. Volunteers removed the tarmac by hand over two summers, and the first vegetables were harvested in 2021. Today about 60 families rent small plots, while a larger shared area grows food for a local primary school. According to the text, when were the first vegetables harvested?

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