| Categories of Question Types | TOEFL iBT TPO54 | IELTS Cam-13 Test-1 | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Textually explicit (one sentence) | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 7 |
| Textually implicit (across sentences) | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 |
| Global (the whole text) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |