How to improve IELTS reading score?

By Padarbind www.mainstayabroad.com

Why some believe that IELTS reading  is difficult? Answer is very simple. It is  lake of guidance and preparation. Everything becomes a little challenging initially, it is universally acknowledged. Never take IELTS reading as a mere one. 3Ps: 1# Preparation 2# Preparation 3# Preparation some more. Below given suggestions can enlighten the beautiful ways to achieve your goal.

A wide variety of Subjects

It is not your selective studies that would be in IELTS reading. Topics are selected from various resources such as: from magazine, journal, newspaper and some books. One does not need to use prior knowledge about those topics to transfer  answers successfully. Be sure that all answers belong to passage itself. It is advisable not to apply any previous knowledge to answer those questions.

Check and eye on questions first

If you read the passage first, it doesn't mean that you can memorize everything what is there in the passage itself and when you look up questions later there are chances to forget what you have read just before. However, if you start focusing on questions and its keywords it will give us actual reach to the right location for the answers in the passage. 

Read the questions carefully and highlight any of the best keywords which all are prominent to you- names, dates, numbers, nouns, main verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Next step is to skim the text to find out the location in the passage with the help of keywords. You need to paraphrase and make proper understanding on synonymous statements in the passage from the keywords of the questions. You have to read there section carefully and match the information from the questions. Sometime you need to scan properly to comprehend  synonyms and paraphrases. 

60 minutes Management

40 questions in 60 minutes can be solved with a beautiful trick with your time proficiency. Three passages will take minimum 20 minutes each. Divide 40 questions by 3 passages  and calculate per minute to answer. Where you feel the questions are unanswered and consuming time then do it after solving rest of questions. Take 15 minutes to solve minimum 14 to 15 questions in each passage and save 5 minutes in your hand. Remember one of the most important note that answer all the questions, even if you you must predict on some of them. If you are taking much time with a question, leave it and move on to another.

Do practice on target areas

There are 11 or 12 types of questions  in IELTS reading section. The formats are Making features , Table completion ,Flow chart completion, Information matching, Headings, Matching sentence ending task, Multiple choice note completion task, Sentence completion task and Summary completion. point any of its question format and go to the passage  to solve what you have targeted. Do it for all formats of the questions and then have  self assessment where you are facing difficulties. Repeat the practice on those of challenging formats util you are satisfied answering all. 

After completion of this practice, now turn up to whole passage of three sections. Start with your stopwatch and speed up your reading with skimming, scanning, analytical skill, reasoning ability, contextual meaning, vocabulary, synonyms, paraphrases and language analysis.

Always remember it may take more practices. Your every effort  is building your skills and once you are able to solve 40 out of 40 with many different topics of IELTS reading can  build your confidence for final examination.

Thank you!

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