Ielts reading skills

Ielts reading skills

Student : Ulashbayev a. A.

Reading:

• The IELTS Reading test consists of 40 questions, designed to test a wide range of reading skills. These include reading for gist, reading for main ideas, reading for detail, skimming, understanding logical argument and recognising writers’ opinions, attitudes and purpose

The IELTS General Training Reading passages are extracts from materials that you can find on a day-to-day basis in an English-speaking country. The questions in this section will test your ability to understand content present in everyday materials such as:

• The IELTS General Training Reading passages are extracts from materials that you can find on a day-to-day basis in an English-speaking country. The questions in this section will test your ability to understand content present in everyday materials such as:
• Newspapers
• Advertisements
• Handbooks
• Notices.

The IELTS Academic test is used for university admissions and professional registrations around the world, so the questions in this section will test your ability to understand content present in academic materials.To prepare for test day, make sure you read a range of texts on different topics from:

• The IELTS Academic test is used for university admissions and professional registrations around the world, so the questions in this section will test your ability to understand content present in academic materials.To prepare for test day, make sure you read a range of texts on different topics from:
• Books
• Journals
• Magazines
• Newspapers

You can expect a variety of question types in the General and Academic Reading tests such as:

• You can expect a variety of question types in the General and Academic Reading tests such as:
• Multiple choice
• Identifying information
• Identifying a writer's views/claims
• Matching headings
• Matching sentence endings
• Sentence completion
• Summary, note, table, flow-chart completion
• Diagram label completion
• Short-answer questions

A multiple-choice question (MCQ) is composed of two parts: a stem that identifies the question or problem, and a set of alternatives or possible answers that contain a key that is the best answer to the question, and a number of distractors that are plausible but incorrect answers to the question.

Matching paragraph information question in IELTS reading requires you to match the sentences given with information that is contained in different paragraphs. You must have strong skills of paraphrasing for this type of question. See if you can complete this practise lesson which I have written for you.

Tips for Matching Headings Pay attention to headings that are different or similar to each other. Spend time paraphrasing keywords in the possible headings. Read the paragraphs to find the main idea. Distinguish between main ideas and extra information in the paragraph

Strategy In IELTS reading, might be asked to complete a ‘matching sentence endings’ question type. In this question, you will be given a list of incomplete sentences with no endings and another list with possible endings. Your job is to match the incomplete sentences with the correct ending based on the reading text.

When you get sentence completion questions you must fill in the miss word or words with an appropriate word(s) taken from the reading passage. The completed sentence must be grammatically correct. This is a common type of question in IELTS reading.

Flow-chart or table: You will be given a table of information with gaps in it.You are required to fill the gaps with appropriate words from the reading text.

Diagram label completion: The main problem with these questions is students focus too much on the diagram and try to understand everything about it. Unfamiliar diagrams can cause panic and lose you time. This is not a test of your technical knowledge but a test of your reading skills. You should try to understand generally what is happening in the diagram, but the relationship between the text and the diagram is more impor

Short - answer questions:Many students find short answer questions amongst the easiest to answer. You have to read a text and answer a set of questions about it in one to three words.

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