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Multiple choice — evidence before intuition

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Two choices need two evidence checks

  • Outcome: choose the requested number of options that answer the actual question, using accurate passage evidence and warranted inference. Start with Reading orientation. When asked for two options, judge each against the same question; a plausible pair can still contain one unsupported choice.
  • Read the library trial below as a worked case. It reports a difference between rooms but leaves a competing explanation. Later practice introduces fresh passages, single-answer and choose-two decisions, feedback, transfer and review. These short cases do not provide a full Reading paper, timing calibration or IELTS band prediction.

This passage and every question below were written for this site. They are practice, not official IELTS material.

A district library tested whether adjustable window blinds could make its reading rooms more comfortable. For four weeks in late spring, staff measured the temperature at 3 p.m. in two west-facing rooms and asked visitors a short comfort question. Room A kept its fixed blinds; Room B received adjustable ones. Room B was, on average, 1.8°C cooler at the time of measurement. However, it also contained fewer computers, which give off heat. The survey responses varied from week to week and did not show a clear difference between the rooms. The managers postponed a decision to buy blinds for every branch. They planned a second trial in rooms with the same number of computers.

The passage reports an observation: B was cooler. It does not establish the cause of that difference. That distinction is the centre of this lesson.

The blinds could block sunlight, but they could not block bad inferences.

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