10 Important IELTS Reading Tips
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.
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The diagram illustrates the procedures followed in order to produce soft drinks.
Basically, There are five stages required to reach the final product starting from water that is must be cleaned and sterilized at first.
Cleaning Raw water is the process of passing water through water softener and chemicals after filtering it from impurities to be safe for use. Secondly, In the heating evaporation and carbonation stage, Water is pumped into electric heaters to be evaporated then move through cooling pipe for condensation and by addition of carbondioxide it becomes carbonated.
Consequently, Carbonated water enters mixing tank, This is the phase where colouring,syrup and flavour are added.
After filtering the water from the mixing tank, the mixture is now ready to be filled both in bottles and in cans.
The last stage for this process is packaging the bottles and cans in boxes in order to transport them to the supermarket to be available for consumption by the users.
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The diagram illustrates the procedures followed in order to produce soft drinks. Basically, there are five stages required to reach the final product starting from water that is must be cleaned and sterilized at first.
Cleaning Raw water is the process of passing water through the water softener and chemicals after filtering it from impurities to be safe for use. Secondly, In the heating evaporation and carbonation stage, Water is pumped into electric heaters to be evaporated then move through a cooling pipe for condensation and by the addition of carbon dioxide, it becomes carbonated. Consequently, Carbonated water enters the mixing tank, This is the phase where coloring, syrup, and flavor are added.
After filtering the water from the mixing tank, the mixture is now ready to be filled both in bottles and in cans. The last stage for this process is packaging the bottles and cans in boxes in order to transport them to the supermarket to be available for consumption by the users.
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Laws which are imposed by the authorities must be followed by every citizen. Giving freedom to an individual, so they can do whatever they want can cause serious problems. I totally agree to the statement that without any rules and regulations the country will fall in the chaos. In this essay we will discuss the effects of not having any rules in a society.
Firstly, rules are the boundaries for limiting problems in the society. Such as traffic laws in the society, If the there are no restriction to the speed limit the will be many deaths. People will use this freedom and not care about others at all. Risking many lives and numerus accidents on the other hand crossing only over the pedestrian can also danger many lives. Running across roads where the vehicles go in full speed is putting their life in danger.Example in many countries there is a fine imposed on an individual, who do not use the pedestrian to cross.
Where as there are many other reasons that show the importance of laws. Such as lettering in public, if there is not ristriction on where to dispose the garbage. People will start throwing letter everywhere, which creates land pollution. Above all this attracts harmful insects such as mosquito and flies etc. Increases the number of sickness and health expectancy reduces. Example in many undeveloped countries they still have problem in proper disposal of garbage and according to global standards the highest number of health issues and deaths are in these countries.
In conclusion, A set of rules imposed by the government is to keep it's citizen safe and secure. Not following them will have lead to destruction and problems to oneself. I completely agree this statement that a community in the society should follow it's laws as it is a beneficial for them.
The following diagram illustrates the process of making carbonated drinks at five different stages, each stages completing the mechanism with defferent machineries.
At stage one, raw water is being filtered and transfered to water softener to soften the water and then at stage two purified softened water is being heated using the electric heater and then passed through cooling pipes to cool down the heated water, after that they are passed through carbon dioxide gas so that the water particles reacts with carbon dioxide gas particles and get carbonated.
Carbonated water is then transferred to mixing tank, at stage five, inside the mixing tank, carbonated water, colouring, syrup and flavour are mixed all together at right amount then filtered out the excess chemicals and then transfer the pure coloured, flavoured, carbonated drink at stage four,
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