Reading tips for IELTS

Reading Tips
Tip 1: Background Strategies
Tip 2: Read the text first
Tip 3: Overview read


The heading => Summary => key words (signposts, organizing words, conjunctions,
…)
Tip 4: Read Beginnings and Ends

*transition sentence: getting you ready for the topic sentence following
Tip 5: Check for Signposts (sequencers, transition sentences,…)


Tip 6: The quick read approach (Top down/ Overview read)


Tip 7: Know about Conjunctions
Tip 8:Guess the meaning of words

Question answering tips
Tip 9:Read the instructions
Tip 10: Use common sense: use real world knowledge and experience to predict the
answers.
Tip 11: The scanning Process

Identify the scanning words

Tip 12: Scanning techniques
The scanning word is not always an obvious features such as dates, numbers.
Sometimes it is “normal word”.
Tip 13:Think of synonyms and concepts
Tip 14: Think about answering order
Tip 15: Know the Question Types
1. Multiple-choice

2. Matching information

3. Short answers

4. Table completion

5. Labeling diagrams

6. Gap-fill

7. Sentence completion
Tip 16: Eliminate choices
Tip 17: Think of type
Tip 18: Think of grammar
Tip 19: Think of Translation
Tip 20: Reading procedure