Earlier this year, I was analyzing all reading passages in Cambridge books (from 10 till 19) and categorized them by topic. These four were the most common:

Humanities (history, human culture, art) – 23.17%
Environment & animals – 17.68%
Psychology & Neuroscience – 16.46%
Architecture & Engineering & Transportation – 15.85%

These numbers may be meaningless to you, but let me cook.

See, reading passages are basically vocabulary tests, but they are also tests of your general knowledge. If you like history generally, you will like a passage about history, too. It will be easier to read, and things like BC and AD will be easy terms for you.

But what if you don't like history and want to avoid it? Well, percentages are not looking good for you. As you see, according to a very simple way of categorizing passages, there is approximately 23% chance that your passage will be based on history or related to history (part of humanities). So maybe you need to improve your knowledge of history to prepare yourself for the test better. At least you have to force yourself to learn the basics related to history.

@ieltsaidbydilshodbek ✅

Still don't believe me? Let me mention some passages related to humanities from real Cambridge books (10-19). See the post below ⬇️