Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer · Part 2: Reading

In the more progressive schools throughout the world…

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In the more progressive schools throughout the world, attempts are being made to synthesize subjects previously taught separately. Examples of this are efforts to combine reading with literature and history with geography. In North America and Western Europe, innovation such as team teaching, the use of more teachers’ aides or clerks, and the establishment of ungraded school have been tried. Most significant and pervasive, however, has been the widespread and growing acceptance of the principle that elementary education should focus on activity and experience as well as on subject matter.

Which of the following most accurately summarizes the opinion of the author in the text?

  1. ATeaching of hand skills in the elementary school varies from nation to nation.
  2. BSchools have introduced teaching in “practical” subjects along with the theoretical ones.
  3. CIt is necessary to provide school education in vocational or pre-vocational skills.
  4. DExperimentation and innovation in curriculum and teaching methods have taken place at the elementary and other levels.
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Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer format (Pearson)

Pearson's name: Multiple Choice, Single Answer

PromptText up to 110 words
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes)
Skills assessedReading

How it is scored

  • Scored as either correct or incorrect.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 2: Reading, checked 9 October 2026.