IBT Sample Questions

IBT Sample Questions

Reading

1 What is this text?

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Cooks Rules
1. Read each recipe before you start, to make sure you have everything
you need.
2. Wash your hands and put on an apron before you start cooking.
3. Carefully weigh or measure all the ingredients you use.
4. Always wear oven gloves when picking up anything hot, or when putting
things into or taking them out of the oven.
5. Be very careful with sharp knives.
6. Turn saucepan handles to the side of the stove top so that you do not
knock them.
7. Never leave the kitchen while electric hot plates or gas rings are turned
on.
8. Always turn the oven off when you have finished cooking.

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Reading Lower Years Samples

a recipe
a report
a set of instructions
a story about cooking

2 The main reason for Rule 7 is that

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you would waste electricity.

a fire might start.
you might burn yourself.
the food might taste bad.

3 What does the text tell you to do after finishing cooking?

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Taste the food.

Turn off the oven.
Clean the stove.
Leave the kitchen.

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IBT Sample Questions

Spelling

Peter

Over the fence

Choose the correctly spelt word for each blank space.

Peter was having

kicking the football across the

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He thought it would have been easy

Choose the correct word for each blank space.

2

now.

Vans ball went over the fence.

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truble
trubble
trouble
troubel

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feild
field
feeld
feeled

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B
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by
bi
bye
buy

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He peered over the top to see if he

There it

Grammar

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can
must
could
would

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is
was
had
were

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a
any
those
his

Grammar Lower Years Samples 

in the middle of

see it.
big puddle.

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Punctuation

Soap bubbles
The following text has punctuation missing.
Choose the correct punctuation for each blank space.

What is that
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a bubble made from soap.

You need soap

water and a special ring

to make soap bubbles.

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. (full stop)
! (exclamation mark)
? (question mark)
: (colon)

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Its
Its
Its
Itss

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, (comma)
; (semi-colon)
: (colon)
. (full stop)

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