IELTS Reading Task Types

IELTS Reading Task Types

 

 IELTS Reading tip 🍬. 

Start with the shortest paragraphs

Instead of starting with the first paragraph, why not start with the shortest paragraph?
If there is a really short paragraph, it should be easier to match it to a heading. Then you will have fewer headings to choose from for the longer paragraphs. 🤓

IELTS READING TIP 🕯️ 

Choose your own technique 🤓

•It may sound strange at first, but… There is no ultimate advice which technique fits you the best. You should choose yourself how to search for right answers and what to do first:
read questions or text.?! A lot successful candidates prefer to read the text first, and only then answer the questions.
But some say it’s better to do the other way. Practise doing IELTS Reading samples to determine which technique fits you more.
 

IELTS Listening/Reading tip 🍉

Capital Letters 🅰️

You can write your answers in capital letters or lower case - your choice(even combination of both). My recommendation is to use all capital letters as it is easier to read and avoid mistakes.
                                                   
For example:
✅Car                                ✅car
✅cAr                                ✅CAR 

Type 1 - Multiple choice 🗂

Type 2 - Identifying information (T/F/NG)  🔗

Type 3 - Identifying writer's views/claims (Y/N/NG) 📰

Type 4 - Matching information 🔖

Type 5 - Matching headings 🔎

Type 6 - Matching features 🔓

Type 7 - Matching sentence endings

Type 8 - Sentence completion 📝

Type 9 - Summary, note, table, flow-chart completion 🗓

Type 10 - Diagram label completion 

Type 11 - Short-answer questions ⌛️

 

More About Reading :

Reading is an essential skill to learn if you want to say you are fluent in a language. Without this ability you would miss out on the chance to obtain information from a wide range of different types of material like, newspapers, magazines, journals, books, leaflets and brochures. Certainly, you would never be allowed to enter a university to study if you were unable to read academic literature. 

As a student entering either an undergraduate or postgraduate course, you are expected to have reached a reasonably high level of ability in all four skills – reading, writing, listening and speaking. How high these levels need to be varies from student to student (partly because of the subject they have chosen to study) and from university to university. It might be possible, for example, to start a postgraduate course at university with an overall IELTS grade of 5.0 on the condition that a presessional course is taken first at the university. 

However, due to the amount of reading required to complete your studies at university, it is far better to aim for an IELTS grade of at least 6.0 in reading before you go to study. For some students this grade or higher would be a basic requirement that has to be met before they are accepted at a university to study their chosen course.

 

The IELTS exam:

 
Your reading level can be measured by taking the IELTS exam. The reading section is made up of three passages with each passage being approximately 700 to 1000 words in length. These texts are not written specifically for the exam but are taken from a wide range of sources such as newspapers, books, journals, and magazines, and can be academic or non-academic in style. 

Although a wide range of topics are possible, no specialist knowledge is required. However, a fairly extensive vocabulary range is needed if the text is to be completely understood. Topics can range from subjects such as tea tree oil, herbal medicine, international airports, and beetles. 

Some students find that some knowledge of the subject can encourage them to “guess” the answers rather than use the text to get the correct answer. Many of these “guesses” can be wrong because the student has not read the instructions or questions carefully enough.  

The test itself consists of forty questions and a time of exactly sixty minutes to finish it. At the end of the test your answers must be on the answer sheet provided. Note that, unlike the listening test, no extra time is provided to complete the answer sheet, and so a grade of zero would be given if this is blank after the allotted time.