Every candidate feels that the IELTS Reading test is tough and they have a very short amount of time to answer a large number of questions on very complicated texts. You need to master the reading skills to get a 7 Band Score or higher and have a range of strategies prepared in order to tackle it. Here are some tips:
1. Read a lot of Academic texts
Develop a habit of reading in your free time! The IELTS texts are “general academic texts”. This implies that they are obtained from sources such as textbooks and specialist magazines and journals. In case you are not familiar with reading such kind of texts in English then you need to start reading them so that you become familiar with the words and language also with the structure used when you meet them in the exam. The three typical sources for IELTS Reading texts are the National Geographic, the New Scientist and the Economist.
2. Focus
Your focus should be on the text first, then on the questions! Only if you have a good understanding of the text, you can answer the questions more precisely and effectively.
3. Be able to Categorize
IELTS exam writers select a range of specific type of texts. You need to learn to recognize the type of text you are reading. It will help you predict its structure and you will be able to understand it more quickly. There are four types of IELTS Reading texts – A) analytic texts that will discuss the reasons why something happened or make recommendations or explain a concept B) descriptive texts that describe a situation, explain how something is done or categorize something C) discursive texts in which different opinions are expressed about an issue and D) narrative texts that explain a chronological sequence of events.
4. Skimming
Develop the ability to skim. Skimming means to read quickly by skipping the unimportant words like prepositions and ignoring the difficult words that you don’t have to understand. You should do this to get a general idea about a text or a paragraph or while intensively searching for the answer of a question.
5. Scanning
You must learn to scan. Scanning is exactly what you do when you look for a price in advertising text or a name in a telephone book. While scanning you do not actually need to read the text but move your eyes quickly over it. You can scan either left to right or right to left, from top to bottom or bottom to top. You should do this to find out the location of answers in the texts looking out for easy to spot words like numbers, dates and words beginning with capital letters such as place names.
6. Structure
Learn to recognize paragraph structure. This involves spotting the relationship between main ideas and supporting ideas in a paragraph. Paragraphs are mostly descending i.e., they start with the main idea somewhere near the start and develop from there, however some, frequently first and the last paragraphs of the texts, are ascending – the main idea is found to be located towards the end. This can prove to be helpful particularly when matching the headings to the paragraphs.
7. Overview
Get the overview of a text before beginning with the questions. Do this by reading the title and the subtitle as well as focusing on the beginnings and ends of paragraphs. This will help you process the information in a text.
8. Similar phrases
Develop the skill to spot similar phrases. There are different ways of expressing the same thing, such as, “I like to ski” and “skiing is enjoyable”. Many questions, for example, YES NO NOT GIVEN questions and gap fills, test your ability to match up a parallel phrase in the task with its equivalent in the text.
9. Stop panicking
Don’t panic when you face an unknown or difficult word. IELTS texts are packed with highly specialized vocabulary and therefore you are advised to read relevant texts beforehand to prepare. Skip over difficult words which are unnecessary for your understanding of the text. For words you need to understand, practice trying to guess their meaning using the overall context of the text.
10. Time management
Manage time in the exam. Most of the IELTS candidates complain about running out of time in the third reading section. Each text should take you about 20 minutes (the examiner will bring it to your notice when 20 minutes have passed). Never spend too long on a single question – either guess the answer if you don’t know the answer exactly or skip the question and return to it later. Also, if you feel you are running out of time, tackle questions like gap fills before attempting “easy-to-guess” tasks.
Comments:
I absolutely disagree with " Focus on the text first" point, instead of reading the questions first. Reading the questions first (in 1st and 2d sections) you have to keep a small idea in mind, looking for its answer in the text. While reading the text first - you have to keep in mind a much bigger piece of information and then match it to the question. While, in the 3d section the questions and the answers are messed up, so here I'd recommend to read the paragraphs first and then looking for the right answer in the questions. Traditionally, there are some names for the headings, and here you need to understand the whole idea of a paragraph to match it correctly. This is a very strange recommendation and I have never seen it in IELTS prep books.
Over time, I have improved in the TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN and YES/NO/NOT GIVEN questions. I won't say I am perfect yet. This is my suggestion. Think like this:
Is any information at all about the question statement given in the passage or not?
If it is, then the final answer will either be TRUE/YES or FALSE/NO. Then check further. If the question text agrees with the passage then the final answer is TRUE/YES, but if not, then it is FALSE/NO.
If no information about the question text is found in the passage, then the answer is simply NOT GIVEN.
But something else it tricky because IELTS likes to play a lot with words. You need to slow down and read this part of the passage carefully. You cannot skim or scan this part because you may miss the information or the point and just assume, especially when you are running out of time. Ensure you create more time for this question type. It is usually very tricky. And that's the trap!
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In my point of view importemt think is staying focused while people spend a lot of there time in social media social media try to decline our focuse daily!!!!
ACTUALLY, I REALLY CANT SOLVE THE QUESTIONS LIKE TRUE AND FALSE.I HAVE PROBLEM ON MY SYNONYMS AND SOME ADVANCE WORD. I ALSO CANNOT RECOGNIZE, WHAT THE SENTENSE IS TELLING?
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I always first read the questions and mark any useful words that I can find in the paragraphs, then I know what should I be looking for, after that I use elimination technique and that doesn't mean that I start to read paragraphs from the begining. Sometimes I start from the middle and find those quite obvious words in the task and in paragraphs, then I mark paragraphs as already red and move on. In that way I save a lot of time. Usually, I finish one reading task in 10-12min.
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