Reading Assessment
Assess your reading comprehension skills with texts of varying complexity levels to determine your proficiency.
Test Overview
About This Assessment
This comprehensive assessment evaluates your reading skills across all proficiency levels, from beginner to advanced. The questions start easy and get harder as you go.
When you finish, you'll see your CEFR level, an estimated IELTS band and Cambridge English Scale range, your score, the topics you got wrong and practice picked for them.
Test Structure
Questions: 40 multiple-choice questions
Time limit: 45 minutes
Proficiency Standards: CEFR level (A1–C2), with estimated IELTS band and Cambridge English Scale range
Feedback: The topics you missed, with practice picked for them
How the Assessment Works
Take the Test
Answer a series of 40 questions that evaluate your reading skills across all proficiency levels.
Instant Scoring
We mark your answers, place you on the CEFR scale and find the topics you missed.
Get Your Results
See your CEFR level with estimated IELTS and Cambridge English Scale equivalents, your score and practice suggestions.
Understanding English Proficiency Levels
Basic User
A1 (Beginner)
Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases.Estimated IELTS 1.0–2.5, Cambridge English Scale below 120
A2 (Elementary)
Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple exchange of information.Estimated IELTS 3.0–3.5, Cambridge English Scale 120–139
Independent User
B1 (Intermediate)
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered.Estimated IELTS 4.0–5.0, Cambridge English Scale 140–159
B2 (Upper Intermediate)
Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible.Estimated IELTS 5.5–6.5, Cambridge English Scale 160–179
Proficient User
C1 (Advanced)
Can express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.Estimated IELTS 7.0–8.0, Cambridge English Scale 180–199
C2 (Proficiency)
Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read, and express themselves spontaneously and precisely.Estimated IELTS 8.5–9.0, Cambridge English Scale 200–230