Interactive reading gives you one passage and several tasks built on it in sequence — completing the text, answering about its content, identifying its main idea, choosing a title. It is longer than the other items and it rewards a deliberate first read.
Read the whole thing before the first task. These tasks build on one another, and the understanding you get from a proper first read is paid back across all of them. Skimming to reach the first question is a false economy here in a way it is not on shorter items.
Fill-in-the-blank tasks are decided by grammar as much as by meaning. Ask what PART of speech the gap needs before you consider meaning — noun, verb, adjective, preposition — and the options narrow immediately. Then read the whole sentence back with your choice in it.
Main-idea and title tasks want scope, not truth. The wrong options are usually true statements that are too narrow — one paragraph's point offered as the whole passage's — or too broad. Ask "does this cover the beginning AND the end?"
You cannot go back. Like the rest of the test, once a task is submitted it is gone. So do the checking before you move, not after.
The clock rewards steadiness, not speed. The test as a whole runs about an hour, and this item is one of the longer ones by design. Rushing it to save time for shorter items is the wrong trade — the shorter items do not need the time.
It is adaptive, so difficulty is feedback. A passage that feels hard means the test has placed you high, which is good news. Students who read difficulty as failure start rushing, and rushing is what actually costs marks.