TIPS TO TIME MANAGE IN IELTS READING TEST
The IELTS reading includes 40 questions, designed to a test of all around reading skills. It contains reading for core, reading for central thoughts, reading for detail, skimming and recognise writer’s opinion, attitudes and purposes.
You have solve to same usually similar type of questions in both the General Training and Academic tests. Nevertheless, the reading topics are different.
To match the shoulder with time is very essential as you have 60 minutes to answer 40 questions. Always it is advised that candidates should not spend no more than 20 minutes on the each paragraph. But if you find first passage a piece of cake, you may finish it in the less time, which allows to spend your integral time on other two passages. Paragraphs and the questions get harder as you move further, so keep in mind to save enough time to get the grips with last passage.
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General Training Reading
The IELTS General Training Reading paragraphs are excerpts from content that one can see in day-to-day basis in an English speaking country.
The questions are meant to assess your faculty to acknowledge the content in this day and age such as:
Newspapers
Advertisement
Handbooks
Notices
To go well with these text types, familiarise yourself with the different texts and questions types before test day, you will become capable to manage your time effectively and you will be perfectly prepared.
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Academic Reading
The IELTS Academic test is generally taken for university admissions and professional registrations all around the world, therefore, questions of these sections will test your ability to understand context present in academic materials.
For the preparation of this you may prefer range of texts on various topics:
Books
Journals
Magazines
Newspapers
Questions types (Academic and General Training)
Well, you can assume different question types in the both.
For instance:
Multiple Choice
Identifying Information
Identifying a writer’s views or claims
Matching information
Matching headings
Matching features
Matching sentence endings
Sentence completion
Summary, note, table, flow-chart completion
Diagram label completion
Short-answer questions
To accurately solve these range of questions in the span of 60 minutes, you need to learn manage time in an effective manner. Have a look on the advices given below so as to manage your time properly during IELTS Reading test.
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Guidelines to manage time:
•Skim the each passage
•Your reading test includes 3 different passages. You can skim through it quickly to understand the gist. Do not spend your precious time in reading and understanding the single word of the passage as it will consume a lot of time. Just lay your concentration on headings, sub headings and find out main points that defines the passages as it will help you only to find out answers easily and in the short time.
•Do pay attention to the introduction and conclusion.
•Introduction and conclusion usually contains author’s point of view and you can answer the questions correctly if you read these one’s. Thoroughly skim out body paragraphs too.
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TIPS TO MANAGE TIME IN IELTS READING TEST
•Pinpoint key words
A clue will asist you to recognise the concept correlation of the text. Highlight this clue by underlining them while skimming. This act as an aid to answer most of the questions correctly.
•Go through all the questions quickly before your begin answering. Make sure to highlight bullet points in wuestions abd do keep in view that questions appear in groups of 3 or 4 or more, so do look these ones before moving on text reading.
•Attempt each question
Keep in mind to solve particular questions of the passages, fill out the blank with an assumed answer if you are also not able to find the answer or option, may it go correct!
Although you run out of your timings do remember to make an educated guess.
•Answer transferring
Fill out the answers in the exam sheet along with attempting only as no extra time is given for transferring the answers. So, you must note down side-by-side only.
So, this is the useful information for all the IELTS aspirants about the reading section.
Thank You
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