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June 6, 2016
5 Top Tips for Scoring High on the IELTS Reading Section
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How do you feel about the IELTS reading section?
Many, many people think that the reading section is the hardest part of the IELTS exam.
Yes, they feel that it’s even more difficult than the speaking, writing and listening sections!
It’s true that you have to work very fast and that reading requires a lot of concentration.
Yes, you need to keep yourself very focused to find the right answers to many questions.
But there are things you can do to get better at reading. Before you steal the tips, let’s have a look at the big picture.
What You Need to Know About IELTS Reading
The reading test has three sections, which means you need to read three different texts.
There are several questions for each section and you get 60 minutes to read the texts and answer all the questions.
You may have already seen a few reading tests and noticed that some questions look similar in terms of what they ask you to do. Here are the main types
of questions you can get in the reading test:
True/false/not given questions
Multiple choice questions
Matching tasks
Gap filling tasks
Sentence completion tasks
Classification tasks
Short-answer questions
Chart, table or diagram completion tasks
So what can you do to answer the questions as correctly as possible?
1. Use Time to Your Advantage
Fill in the answer sheet as you go.
In the exam room, you’re going to receive two things: (1) a
booklet
with all the questions and (2) an
answer
sheet
. The answer sheet is the most important document because all your answers must be recorded in it. If you only write your answers in the
booklet, your answers won’t be taken into account and scored.
Many test-takers waste a lot of time by writing the answers in the booklet first and
then
transferring them to the answer sheet. And quite a lot of test-
takers find out that they don’t have enough time at the end to transfer all of their answers onto the answer sheet. Imagine what a waste it would be to
have all the answers but no time to write them down where it really matters!
So, what we advise you to do is to fill in the answer sheet as you go, not at the end. Have the booklet in front of you so you can read the texts and
questions comfortably, and also keep the answer sheet somewhere handy so you can write all the answers down as you progress with the test.
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