COMMON MISTAKES IN IELTS READING
IELTS Reading, this is divided in two categories Academic and General Training. IELTS Academic text is more complicated than the General Training.
But examination pattern is set for both the examination. All candidates get 60 minutes to solve 40 questions and no surplus time is given to transfer your answers.
#Mistakes Often Committed
Do Not Try To Read Every Word
In order to avoid this mistake, it is very important to read the question first and then skim through for similar content, only to scan or read that part of the passage that pertains to the question. Why? Because IELTS Reading is a tight test with not much time for you to read everything.
So, while you are at it, read the heading first to understand what does the comprehension talk about. Then directly read and understand the question.
COMMON MISTAKES IN IELTS READING
Do Not Read The Question Normally
It is very important to take time to read the question wisely, understand and analyze it. The question is the key to answer because most often you are required to match the information of the question statement with the passage, and thus you should understand the meaning of the question. Quantitative words like ‘some’, ‘all’, ‘many’, are some major meaning
changers.
Giving Two Answers
Sometimes, in a haste to score high, we often choose two probable answers instead of one, but since there are no half marks in IELTS, both the answers are considered wrong and you get a zero in that question.
COMMON MISTAKES IN IELTS READING
Don’t Assume Anything
This is true typically in case of True/False/Not Given and Yes/No/Not Given question types. We often tend to assume information as our brains can infer and go by that.
This often leads to assigning Not Given statements as False. Remember, for a statement to be false, it needs to be of the opposite information.
Time Management
Quite against the popular belief of alloting 20 minutes for each of the three sections in the IELTS Reading test, allot 15 minutes for the first section, 20 minutes for the second section and 25 minutes for the third section.
Why? Because the level of difficulty increases as you move further in the test and thus, the first section should take the least amount of time and the final section should take the most.
Not Following The Instructions Properly. For Example,
An IELTS Reading or Listening instruction may look like this:
Write no more than two words and/or a number.
Most often, students appearing for the test overlook and fail to adhere to the instruction given on top of the questions. In this scenario, the answer “the Indian Government” goes wrong if written as “the Government of India”, because of the violation of word limit.
So, the above given are the common mistakes that are often committed by the aspirants, thus leads to score lesser in the examination.
COMMON MISTAKES IN IELTS READING
COMMON MISTAKES IN IELTS READING