IELTS READING GUIDE

There are two categories for IELTS READING

1)     Academic Reading

2)     General reading

Candidate has to choose any one as per his/her requirement.

  Academic Reading

This test consists of three sections with 40 questions. There are three passages which are taken from journals, books, magazines and newspapers.

Question types:

ü  Multiple choice ü  identifying information(True/False/Not Given) ü  identifying writer’s views/claims(yes/no/not given) ü  matching information ü  flow-chart completion ü  diagram label completion ü  matching sentence endings ü  matching headings ü  matching features ü  sentence completion ü  summary completion ü  note completion ü  table completion    ü  short-answer questions.

 
    General reading

This test consists of three sections with 40 questions. The passages are taken from notices, advertisements, leaflets, newspapers, instruction manuals, books and magazines. The first section contains text relevant to basic linguistic survival in English, with tasks mainly concerned with providing factual information. The second section focuses on the work context and involves text of more complex language. The third section involves reading more extended texts, with a more complex structure, but with the emphasis on descriptive and instructive rather than argumentative texts. (Ref: Cambridge IELTS book 8)

Question types:

As above in Academic Reading.....

  strategies to be developed to score better in IELTS READING??

Tip 1:

Read the question first!!, YES !!, Read the question and underline the keywords and try and find the keywords in the passage or it’s synonyms, and once you find it understand the text around the keyword and see if it can get you your answer. This technique is immensely successful and adapted by so many IELTS candidates and made reading module easy!! Infect this technique has been proven as a boon for those students who could not complete their reading module in time.

Tip 2:

skimming and scanning is also very helping technique to accelerate the IELTS READING PERFORMANCE.  

What is skimming and scanning?

skimming is when you read through a piece of writing quicklyto see what it is about.

Scanning is when you scan the page with your eyes to find answers to questions.

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Tip 3:

you have to develop your speed in reading passages which will help you find the answer quickly from the paragraphs. And that doesn’t mean you should not read it actively but you should improve your speed with grasping the content as much as possible. But How To Improve Speed Reading?: Speed reading can be improved by reading news paper periodicals about different topics like space, politics, sports and all others as per your liking and capacity. You can focus more on topics of your own interest. You can read magazines or any other reading resources. Read for about an hour a day or as much as you can and 5 days a week is enough.

Tip 4:

while reading you should remember the concept or gist of each paragraph you go through, and somehow you should develop a technique to predict the location of the answer in the passage, after reading the question. Well, this will happen when you will come across the question whose answer is in the paragraph you already read. But this technique can be proven time saving many a time in whole IELTS READING MODULE.

Tip 5:

You should develop strategies to handle each different kind of questions with different techniques. Yes!! Every question can be cracked with more ease by following the right and particular strategy, which saves a lot of time. 

Tip 6:

Answers will be in the sequence most of the time, only for some questions you will need to come back to the same paragraph you already read and found previous answer.

After taking 3-4 test everytime go through this page you will grasp it more each time you read and so your skills in IELTS LISTENING will be improved.

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