IELTS TIPS - READING

IELTS TIPS - READING

I appeared for IELTS more than 2 yrs back.

The methods mentioned below are what my various teachers and gurus taught me and that I used to appear for this IELTS and various other Tests.

READING

This is my toughest section – because I am not a good and fast reader.

I think it has 3 reading articles. Most probably 1 of these articles will be tough. This is used by IELTS for research purpose.

The most important skill needed here > you need a habit of fast and good reading.

To improve this > start reading newspapers and slowly you will become a fast reader. Actually fast reading means skimming through the article very fast – you don’t need to understand each and every aspect. Just read it as fast as possible.

Actually time allotted to read the articles and answer the questions is very very less – you will mostly be short of time to complete the answers to all questions.

This section is not in sequence as mentioned in my other Blog > IELTS TIPS - LISTENING in the listening section. The answer of the question 2 will not follow answer to question 1. May be your 10th question answer will be in the 1st paragraph and 1st question will be in the 8th paragraph. Unfortunately there is no sequence for this section. But this doesn’t mean that answer to a question in the 2nd article will be in the 1st article.

As you will be short of time to complete all answers to all questions you can follow the same trick as mentioned above in the Listening section:

Read the questions and look for what they are asking for and then look into the article to find where this particular answer can be found out and get its answer. But sometimes IELTS questions may be asked in a tricky way. For example: the question may be asking for characteristics of a product/person – but no where in the article this word CHARACTERISTICS will be mentioned instead it may be mentioned as BEHAVIOUR/HABITS/SPECIFICATIONS/TECHNICAL DETAILS or any other word that has this similar meaning. So these are places in the article where you will find the answers to these questions.

Sometimes you may be asked to match paragraphs A-D for example with the titles 1-6, This is indeed tough – as there are only 4 paragraphs but 6 titles > 2 of the titles will not fit the paragraph titles. But some of the titles may look similar to each other and may be fitting to the same paragraph > this is just to increase more confusion. So select the best matching title for the paragraph. As far I remember sometimes you may also be asked to arrange the jumbled paragraphs A F D C B E in a correct order, as it should appear. For this you will have to understand each paragraph and arrange it 1 after another exactly as the flow of the article should be.

Practice a lot for this section.

More will be added shortly – if any.

Keep smiling and practicing.

May God Bless You.

Suju.the.Archer