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Strategies To Answer The Questions

This document provides strategies for answering IELTS reading questions that require matching paragraph headings to paragraphs of text. It recommends quickly reading the headings and topic sentences of paragraphs to identify matches, while being aware that headings may use synonyms and a shared noun does not guarantee a match. The document outlines a step-by-step process of elimination when unsure of matches and suggests picking the best fit if still uncertain after reviewing all options.

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Strategies To Answer The Questions

This document provides strategies for answering IELTS reading questions that require matching paragraph headings to paragraphs of text. It recommends quickly reading the headings and topic sentences of paragraphs to identify matches, while being aware that headings may use synonyms and a shared noun does not guarantee a match. The document outlines a step-by-step process of elimination when unsure of matches and suggests picking the best fit if still uncertain after reviewing all options.

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A common type of IELTS Reading question will ask you to select headings of paragraphs and

match them to the paragraphs from a text.


On this page there is a full reading text and some practice questions. At the end of the page,
there is a discussion of the answers and how you should have identified the correct match.

Strategies to answer the questions


1. Quickly read through the paragraph headings so you can see what they say.
2. Then look at the first paragraph.
3. Often only the topic sentence needs to be read carefully because the main idea and
answer are there - you may be able to just skim the rest.
4. Sometimes, however, the answer is not in the topic sentence and the whole paragraph
needs to be read more carefully.
5. If a match is not immediately obvious, move on to the next one.
6. If you are unsure between two answers at first, put them both in. You may be able to
eliminate one answer later if it fits another paragraph better.
7. If at the end you are still stuck between two answers for a question, pick which fits
best.

Things to beware of
1. There are always more choices of paragraph headings on the list than paragraphs, so
be careful when matching them.
2. Watch out for synonyms - often words in the paragraphs and paragraph headings will
not be the same; they will be synonyms.
3. Having a noun from a heading that is in the paragraph does not guarantee they match you still need to read it carefully to check.

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