The ‘Fill in the Blanks’ (Reading) question assesses reading skills and requires you to use contextual and grammatical cues to complete a reading text by identifying the single correct answer for each blank.
Number of items | 4-5 |
Prompt Length | Text up to 80 words |
Scoring | Partial credit (for each correctly completed blank) |
Communicative skills, enabling skills and other traits scored | Reading |
Subskills tested | Reading: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context; understanding academic vocabulary; understanding the difference between connotation and denotation; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; following a logical or chronological sequence of events. |
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