IMAT Reading and General Knowledge preparation
Prepare for reading comprehension, vocabulary and the official general-knowledge areas.
4 questions in the latest completed format.
Read closely and review knowledge with focus.
The 2025 paper used four passage-based questions. The 2024 paper mixed reading, literature, history and English language use.
Practise both reading accuracy and the knowledge areas named in the MUR syllabus. The question mix can change.
Latest checked against the MUR 2025/2026 syllabus. Check the official source before applying in a new cycle.
📖What this section tests
The latest completed IMAT format assigns 4 of the 60 questions to Reading Skills and Knowledge Acquired During Studies.
Questions can use short passages or ask directly about knowledge gained at school. Prepare both reading accuracy and the official general-knowledge areas.
What recent papers looked like
- 2025: four passage-based questions.
- 2024: reading inference, literature, history and English language use.
📘Reading and knowledge topics
The detailed 2026 syllabus has not yet been published. This checklist uses the latest completed MUR syllabus.
🔍 Reading and inference
- Main idea and purpose
- Explicit information and relevant details
- Inferences supported by the text
- Coherence across a short passage
🧩 Vocabulary and text structure
- Meaning of words from context
- Abstract, uncommon and specialist vocabulary
- Connectors, contrast and cause-effect language
- Cohesion between sentences and ideas
📰 Text types
- Short scientific essays
- Classic and contemporary literature
- Newspaper and magazine articles
- Texts with different purposes and audiences
🌍 Knowledge acquired during studies
- Historical, geographical and cultural context
- National and international institutions
- Law, economics and citizenship
- Contemporary public debates
Practise IMAT reading questions.
Read carefully, choose precisely.
Use topic practice and explanations to get more comfortable with short passages, vocabulary, inference, general knowledge prompts and answer elimination before full IMAT simulations.
🧭How to practise reading
Build reading accuracy first, then review the official knowledge areas. Do not try to memorise random facts from endless lists.
A simple study routine
- Read the question task first: know whether you need the main idea, an inference, a vocabulary clue or a detail from the text.
- Find the evidence: choose the answer supported by the passage and eliminate options that add unsupported claims.
- Review one knowledge area: rotate through history, geography, institutions, law, economics, citizenship and current affairs.
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📝Weekly reading plan
Keep this section active with short weekly sessions. Focus on evidence, useful vocabulary and one knowledge area at a time.
What to do each week
- Read one short English text from science, literature or current affairs.
- Answer using textual evidence and explain why the other options are wrong.
- Review one knowledge area and keep only short, useful notes.
Official source baseline
This page uses the latest checked MUR 2025/2026 sources: Decree no. 599 of 7 August 2025, Allegato A syllabus and the 2025 English paper and 2024 English paper. MUR's 2026 announcement says the detailed content will be defined in a later decree. We will update this page when it is published.
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