Ace The ielts essential tips for ielts general Training Module

Choose your battles  

 

If any question takes you too much time – give up, move to the next one. Don't forget 

to mark it with some sign (like "?"), so you could identify and come back to it later. 

There are a lot of questions and you might miss the easy ones if the hard ones take all 

of your time. Another reason to leave hard questions for last is that after you do all the 

easy ones, you know more about the text, so then solving the tricky questions might 

become easier.  

 

Use passage layout 

 

Every text and every paragraph in it has a certain structure, meaning it is written 

according to some rules.  

 

Usually first paragraph contains the main idea of the passage and the author’s opinion. 

Last paragraph often summarizes the main points of the passage. 

 

Every paragraph has its structure that is similar to the structure of whole text. It has 

introduction, body and conclusion. The main idea is usually can be found in the 

introduction. It means that if you want to understand quickly what paragraph is about, 

it is enough to read only its introduction.