DET Interactive Reading
A passage with a set of about six linked tasks — completing it, answering about it, identifying ideas, and summarising. There are two of these sets, and they are the longest reading work in the test.
The tasks build on each other
Early tasks in the set make you read the passage closely; later ones ask you to use what you read. A candidate who rushes the opening tasks has not absorbed the passage and then has to re-read it under more pressure.
- Completion tasks — fill gaps in the passage itself.
- Comprehension — answer questions about what it said.
- Identification — select the ideas that appear in it.
- Summary — complete a short summary of the whole.
Approach
- Read the passage properly in the first task rather than hunting for the gap.
- Hold the structure — claim, support, conclusion — as you go.
- For the identification task, check each option against the passage rather than against memory.
- For the summary, prefer the option that covers the whole passage over the one that is accurate about part of it.
This is the item type where the DET most resembles a conventional reading test, and where general reading practice in English transfers most directly.
Interactive Reading — FAQs
2 questions
Two sets, each of about six questions.
Yes, which is why reading it properly at the start pays off across every task.
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Sources
Written from the test board's own published material and checked on 1 October 2026.