How to answer
Yes/No/Not Given: how to approach it
- 1
Look for opinion signals in the passage: adjectives, adverbs like surprisingly, and verbs like argue or doubt.
- 2
Yes means the writer holds that view; No means the writer holds the opposite view.
- 3
Not Given means the writer never says what they think about it, even if the topic is mentioned.
- 4
Questions follow the passage order, so a missed answer is usually between its neighbours.
85 drills
Yes/No/Not Given drills
- Athletics and Politics at Ancient OlympiaThe ancient Olympic Games · 8 questionsStart →
- Beavers and Modern River ManagementBeavers as ecosystem engineers · 7 questionsStart →
- Civilian Helicopter Transport in CitiesThe helicopter · 7 questionsStart →
- Deep-Sea Vents and the Origins of LifeHydrothermal vents · 8 questionsStart →
- Deep-Water Sanctuaries for Bleached CoralsCoral bleaching · 8 questionsStart →
- Demographic Flux and Grammatical LossLinguistics and language change · 8 questionsStart →
- Designing the Sonic LandscapeArchitecture and building design · 8 questionsStart →
- Elephant Infrasound in Landscape ConservationElephant infrasound · 8 questionsStart →
- Engineering the Viking LongshipViking ship building · 8 questionsStart →
- Evaluating Mangrove Reforestation SchemesMangrove forests · 8 questionsStart →
- Funding Coastal Rescue ServicesLifeboat services · 8 questionsStart →
- Glassblowing and the Scientific MethodGlassblowing · 8 questionsStart →
All 85 Yes/No/Not Given drills
- Hot-Air Balloons in Nineteenth-Century Warfare
- How the Typewriter Shaped Writing
- Human Endurance in Early Submarines
- Interpreting Ancient Board Games
- Jellyfish Proliferation and Marine Ecosystems
- Magnetic Navigation in Marine Turtles
- Magnetic Navigation in Migratory Birds
- Navigating by Time at Sea
- Navigation and Olfactory Memory in Salmon
- Preserving Medieval Stained Glass
- Public Libraries in the Digital Era
- Reassessing the Age of Celluloid
- Reintroducing Apex Predators to Working Landscapes
- Rethinking Ancient Amazonian Urbanism
- Rethinking High-Altitude Wind Energy
- Rethinking Our Messages to the Stars
- Rethinking Slow-Slip Earthquakes and Seismic Risk
- Revising the Modern Calendar
- Sanitation Systems of Leafcutter Ants
- Sculpting the Urban Soundscape
- Seagrass Meadows and Climate Policy
- Techniques and Debates in Ancient Bronze Casting
- The Chemistry and History of Iron Gall Ink
- The Complexity of Honeybee Communication
- The Conflict Over Uniform Railway Time
- The Conservation of Historic Musical Instruments
- The Conservation of Historical Bookbindings
- The Cultural Architecture of Communal Water Courts
- The Development of Crucible Steel
- The Dilemma of Heritage Replicas
- The Environmental Challenges of Jet Propulsion
- The European Quest for Porcelain
- The Evolution of Celestial Navigation at Sea
- The Evolution of Cephalopod Intelligence
- The Evolution of Early Football
- The Evolution of Shorthand Writing
- The Evolution of the Modern Playing Card
- The Evolution of the Modern Zoo
- The Evolutionary Enigma of Animal Play
- The Fallacy of Plant Cognition
- The False Promise of Post-Agrarian Food
- The Forgotten Hazard of Urban Noise
- The Fragility of Digital Memory
- The Hidden Costs of Frictionless Learning
- The Ideology of the First Public Museums
- The Illusions of Virtual Water
- The Imperial Airship Experiment
- The Limits of Marathon Performance
- The Limits of Ocean Afforestation
- The Making of the Modern Dictionary
- The Material History of Parchment
- The Mismatch of the Modern Clock
- The Monarch Butterfly's Navigational Riddle
- The Over-Collaboration Trap
- The Perils of Frictionless Commerce
- The Persistence of the Sundial
- The Power of the Watermill
- The Price of Outsourced Memory
- The Pursuit of Natural Stability in Early Gliders
- The Resistance to Decimal Measures
- The Restoration of Kelp Habitats
- The Rise and Endurance of the Fountain Pen
- The Rise of Closed-Circuit Diving Gear
- The Rise of Early Encyclopaedias
- The Rise of European Beet Sugar
- The Rise of European Coffee Houses
- The Shifting Mission of Botanical Gardens
- The Sinking Promise of Blue Carbon
- The Transformation of Medieval Chess
- The Wooden Road Revolution
- Understanding Dolphin Communication Systems
- Ventilation Systems of Termite Mounds
- Windmills and the Reclamation of Wetland
One type is not the whole test
The real Reading paper mixes question types across three passages in 60 minutes. Take a full timed test free and get your band.
Take a full Reading test free →Other question types
Practise another type
© 2026 BandLadder. Written and checked by the BandLadder team. You may quote or cite this page with credit to BandLadder and a link to it; republishing it in full needs our written permission. Content use policy