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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 9, Passage 2

Investment in shares versus investment in other assets – which gives the greater gain?

Questions 14–26 of Reading Test 9. Do it online and every answer is marked the moment you finish, with your band score and the exact line of the passage each answer came from.

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Do the passage here and every answer is marked the moment you finish — the correct answer beside each one you got wrong, your raw score out of 13, and your band. It takes about 20 minutes. Vertex does not post a bare list of answers, because a list tells you nothing about why you missed a question, which is the only part that changes your score.

How many questions is it?

Questions 14–26 — 13 questions, in these types: Matching Features, Matching Headings, Summary Completion.

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How the passage begins

How one university collected the data to try and answer this question. It all began in 1958 with a phone call from Louis Engel, a banker at Merrill Lynch, a US-based financial management company, who wanted to know how investors in shares had performed relative…

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