fairly long passages dealing with the central theme from different points of view and in different literary formsprose, poetry, drama, social documents, scientific papers, etc. There are multiple-choice questions on each passage and questions comparing the passages with one another. The writing section is based on complete papers written by students. Usually these students were asked to compare the views presented in the reading passages and then to state their own views on the same topic. The advantage of this tie-up between the reading and the writing sections is that, when the test-taker comes to the writ