Reading 7.0: The 30/40 Question-Type Priority Map

Eleven official question types, ranked by how many marks they carry and how cheaply that mark is won — a map for where your sixty minutes actually pay off.

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Contents

1. Part 1 — The 30/40 rule, revisited — and why this book is a map, not a list
2. Part 2 — What's changing in 2026 — Reading's own version
3. Part 3 — Before you read a word: the two minutes that decide a passage
4. Part 4 — The Priority Map: eleven question types, ranked by yield
5. Part 5 — Paraphrase: the mechanic that makes every type harder
6. Part 6 — Time across three passages, not just within one
7. Part 7 — One passage, start to finish
8. Part 8 — Checking your own progress
9. The end

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