ielts reading - general structure and strategies

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Reading Test

IELTS Preparation


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Format

The IELTS General Training Reading Test has 3

sections. You have 60 minutes to complete the

test. There is NO extra time at the end of the

test to transfer your answers to the answer

paper.


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The test has 40 questions based on a series of

texts, which could be: notices,

advertisements, newspapers, instruction

manuals, leaflets, timetables, books and

magazines.


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Part 1:

2-3 "texts" with 13-14 questions in 2-3 sets of

differing formats;

"social survival;

finding and providing factual information;

texts are relatively short and there may be a

number of "mini texts' to look through, e.g.: aseries of advertisements on similar subjects.


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Part 2:

2 texts with 13-14 questions;

training and welfare;

texts are more complicated using more intricate

language and structure.


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Part 3:

1 text with 13-14 questions;

deal with longer pieces of writing;

more complex language.


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Strategies

Don't spend too long on a single question.

Come back to it later.

Read the questions and instructions. For

example, people often will mix the yes/no

answers with the true/false answers.

If the question asks for one answer then give

one answer. Giving two is wrong.

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Respect the word limit in the question.

Good grammar and spelling are important. Ifyou spell something wrong, it will be marked

as wrong. Test whether you prefer to read the questions

or the text first.

The test gets more difficult as it goes on soyou will probably need more time for thequestions at the end.



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For many item types, the questions follow the

order of information in the reading passage.

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Skimmingis reading fast to get the "gist" orthe general idea of the text. You can run youreyes over the text getting the general

meaning, not stopping at words that you don'tunderstand as this will slow you down.

Scanningis moving your eyes around the text,back and across and up and down searchingfor some specific information: a word orname.



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