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Do you find it difficult to finish the IELTS Reading questions in 60 minutes?
A common complaint about IELTS Reading is that there is too much to read in too short a space of time: just 20 minutes each for 3 long texts and 40 questions!
And what’s more, you don’t even have extra time to write your answers on the answer sheet – you have to do all of that on top of everything else!
You can’t change the length of the texts or the number of the questions or the time you’re given, that’s for sure.
BUT! You can change the way you approach the texts.
All of my Reading Lessons show you:
I’m using a real test so that I can guarantee it is reliable in terms of the question types and difficulty. Get the full text here.
So what you need to do first is find where the first half ends and the second half starts.
This will save you so much time.
Look at the questions first – they are divided into
How does this help?
Look at the second group (Question 8). This starts with some numbers.
Now look at the text. Can you find the numbers quickly? Yes, they’re about half-way through the text.
This is where these questions will start. If you work this out first, you will know where to focus when you answer all the questions.
Now look at the text again. What else do you notice?
Yes, the questions are IN ORDER and you can find them by looking for synonyms, so you don’t need to jump around looking for information and wasting time.
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