Title The title of the text that you are reading will tell you | Muhammad Abrayev / IELTS

Title
The title of the text that you are reading will tell you what the text is all about. First, read the title. It will give you an idea of the content of the text.

Skimming
This is an IELTS reading task technique that allows you to read through a given text quickly and efficiently while identifying the main ideas of the text.

Scanning
This is a technique where you read through every line very quickly, looking for a specific word or phrase. It comes in handy when you are looking for a one-word answer.

Use Keywords
This is self-explanatory. Reading a text without identifying the keywords is a suicide mission! Ensure that you mark some of the keywords, as they will be helpful when the time for answering questions comes. You wouldn’t need more time to scan through the text again.

Time management
The IELTS reading task module is 60 minutes long. Do NOT share time equally so that you allocate each question twenty minutes.

Check grammar
Be extra careful with the grammar at the beginning of the questions. If you are not careful enough you may end up answering oppositely with all your gathered confidence.

Do not read the whole text
There will never be enough time to read through all the text. There are parts of that text that you will never find any question rising from so no need to read. Your job is to look for the right answers, not read everything.

If you can’t find an answer to the current question, leave it pending and proceed
The trick here is moving from the known to the unknown, so just mark it and move on to answer another question. Once you have finished writing your answers, go back for them.

 It is very tragic to answer all the questions on the question paper and get caught up before transferring them to the answer sheet
After answering every question, just flip over to your answer sheet and write your answer.

Spelling mistakes will always count
Try as much as possible to check your spelling when you are writing short answers, and if you get time after answering all the questions, then check once again in case you made any spelling errors.

Intelligent guessing
At times, you’ll be given difficult words in the passage which you may have no clue at all. What should help you make a correct guess is the context in which the word has been used. Certainly, this difficult word will always be related to the topic of the given text.

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