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Ielts Reading

This document provides tips and strategies for the IELTS reading exam. It discusses the different types of questions on the exam, including multiple choice, true/false, matching headings, short answer and others. It emphasizes techniques like underlining keywords, doing easier questions first, and reading only relevant parts of passages to find answers. The goal is to help students feel more confident and prepared for the exam format and question styles.

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Ielts Reading

This document provides tips and strategies for the IELTS reading exam. It discusses the different types of questions on the exam, including multiple choice, true/false, matching headings, short answer and others. It emphasizes techniques like underlining keywords, doing easier questions first, and reading only relevant parts of passages to find answers. The goal is to help students feel more confident and prepared for the exam format and question styles.

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Ielts Reading (academic)

- 1 hour
- 40 questions
Read the passages and answer questions about the information
Reading comprehesion
Testing your understanding of written English
A vocabulary test
- Exam technique
- Types of question
- Feel more confident
- Be better prepared
Basic exam techniques
1. Don’t read the passage first
2. Just read the title
3. Then go to the first question
4. Underline ‘keywords’ in the question
5. Then search for those words in the passage
‘keyword technique’
6. Underline them
7. Read that part of the passage careful
8. Try to get the answer

1. Read at normal speed


2. Only skim/ scan for names or numbers
3. Miss any difficult questions, get to the end
Question types
1. Gap fill
2. True/ false/ not given
3. Yes/ no/ not given
4. Multiple choice
5. Matching paragraph headings
6. Matching paragraph information
7. Matching sentence endings
8. Matching other features e.g. names
9. Short answer questions
Gap-fill
Types of ‘gap-fill question
1. Fill the gaps with words from passage\
2. Fill the gaps to label a diagram
3. Fill the gaps with words from a list/ box
4. Fill the gaps in a table
http://ielts-house.net/ielts-simon/Reading/IELTS-Simon-
Reading-Gap-fill-reading-practice_2.pdf
True, false, not given
Yes, no, not given
Remember
Find the ‘keywords’ and then compare the question and
passage carefully
Answers are are always in the correct order in the passage
Matching paragraph headings
-List of headings
-Choose the best heading for each paragraph in the passage
‘Paragraph headings’ questions are difficult…
Because the answers are not in order in the passage
And because some of the headings may be similar
A few simple techniques can help to make these questions
easier
Techniques
1. Do’paragraph headings’ questions last
-Do all other questions for the passage first
-You will then be more familiar with the passage
-You might get some of the answers from memory
2. Underline’keywors’ in each heading on the list
3. Then read the shortest or easiest paragraph
-Read at normal speed
-Underline the main ideas in the paragraph
-Compare with all of the headings
-Choose the best one
Which paragraph contains
-List of statements
-Find which paragraph contains the information in each
statement
‘Which paragraph contains’questions are difficult…
-because the answers are not in order in the passage
-the same paragraph may contain more than one answer
-some of the paragraphs may not contain any answers
Techniques
1. Do’which paragraph contains’ questions last
-Do all other questions for that passage first
-You will then be more familiar with the passage
-You might get some of the answers from memory
2. Underline ‘keywords’ in each statement
3. Then start with the easiest statement
-Information that you remember reading about
-Easy keywords that you scan for
Multiple choice questions
Can be difficult because there is a lot to read, and the choices
can be similar and confusing
You can normally find the answers in order in the passage
Matching names
-A list of question statements
-A box containing a list of names
‘Matching names’ sections can be difficult because..
-the answers are not in order in the passage
-one name may be used for more than one answer (if it matches
more than one of the statements)
-some of the names may be not needed
Techniques
1. Underline’keywords’ in each statement
2. Scan the passage to find all of the names
-Highlight each name clearly (e.g. circle them)
3. Choose the name with the shortest description
-read the sentences around the name
-underline the main ideas relating to that name
4. Compare with all of the question statements
-go through the question statements to see it
-any of them match you read
‘Short answer’ questions
Matching sentence endings
Remember:
1. Underline keywords in the sentence endings
2. Then start with the first question
3. Underline keywords in the question
4. Read the passage at normal speed
5. Underline keywords that you find
6. Compare the passage with the sentence endings
7. Choose the best one

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