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British Council IBD Team
IELTS reading tips
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IELTS listening tips
IELTS reading tips
IELTS reading tips
  1. Leave a question if you can’t answer it. To spend a long time on one answer is disastrous. Go back later if you have time and guess if you have too.

  2. Don’t panic if you don’t know anything about the passage. All the answers are in the passage and you don’t need any specialist knowledge.

  3. Remember you have no extra time to transfer your answers at the end. Many candidates think that because they have extra time in listening they are able to do this in reading too. In the reading test you need to answer all the questions and transfer your answers within the 60 minutes.

  4. Try to predict the content of a paragraph from the opening sentence.

  5. Give a paragraph you read an imaginary heading.

  6. Don’t concentrate on words you don’t know. This just wastes valuable time.

  7. Careless mistakes cost many marks. Copy the answer correctly if it is in the passage.

  8. Check spelling. Be careful with singular/plural.

  9. Only give one answer if that is all that’s needed.

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