At present, according to the statistics of IELTS Chinese official website, there are 10 kinds of A-type questions in IELTS reading test. There are 1 1 types of G-type questions, namely: multiple-choice questions; Many pairs; Fill in the blanks; Complete the sentence; Complete notes, abstracts or flowcharts. Complete the summary; Select the corresponding subtitle for the paragraph or part of the article; Looking for information; Judge the author's opinions, opinions or specific information in the article; Classification; Pairing problem. However, there are no multiple matching and summary questions in the A-type IELTS reading test, but there is an additional question in the A-type IELTS reading test, that is, the "marking chart" question. From the analysis of the above problems, it is still impossible to distinguish the difficulty of the exam.
Whether it is IELTS reading Class A or Class G, the test time is 60 minutes and 40 questions. But there are three articles in IELTS reading (Class A). Class G reading consists of three parts. The first part of class G IELTS reading usually contains two or three short essays or several paragraphs (such as advertisements). The second part usually consists of two articles, and the third part is a long article. From this point of view, IELTS reading test G contains more articles than IELTS reading test A. Let's take a look at the word count of two articles. The total number of words in three articles in IELTS reading test A is about 2000 to 2750 words, and the total number of words in all articles in IELTS reading test G is about 2400 words. In this way, you can see that although there are many G articles, the number of words in the articles is not much different.
Class A articles in IELTS reading test mainly come from magazines, periodicals, books and newspapers, which are very similar to the articles that candidates will read in university courses in the future. The content of G-test's articles is from easy to difficult, so the sources of the articles are miscellaneous and extensive. The contents of the first part are selected from notices, advertisements, timetables, promotional materials and other similar contents. The content of the second part is selected from the university enrollment brochure, course introduction, university course introduction, library guide, regulations and other similar contents. The third part is selected from newspapers, magazines, periodicals, novels or non-fiction books, and other similar contents. To sum up, there are obvious differences in test questions, article content and test focus because of the different test purposes of IELTS reading test A and G. Therefore, we can't simply say that the difficulty of G test must be lower than that of A test. IELTS officials have repeatedly said that the two are not comparable in difficulty.