Posts tagged ielts reading

How to prepare for the reading test?

Here are a few tips to improve your band score in the IELTS Reading module. Make notes During the IELTS test, you can make notes on the question booklets. And because the examiners will not take a look at them, you don’t have to worry about them being in bad English. Therefore during the [...]

Reading module: overview

The IELTS reading module takes about 60 minutes. You will have to answer 40 questions based on three reading passages containing between 2000 and 2750 words. Both the passages and the questions appear on the same question paper. You can write on the question paper, but you can’t take it [...]

IELTS reading practice – idioms

Read the following passage and then answer the questions given below it. Famine has taken a heavy toll of thousands of lives in Somalia. At the same time a civil war is going on. Those engaged in it have an axe to grind and are least concerned about the starvation deaths around them. [...]

Answering the True / False / Not given questions in the IELTS reading test

While answering the true / false / not given questions in the IELTS reading test, you are not supposed to use your understanding of the subject. Instead, read the passage carefully and give your answers based on what is given in the passage. Don’t spend a lot of time looking for answers [...]

IELTS Reading

The IELTS reading test takes about an hour. Your task is to read passages and answer questions based on what you have read. Note that the passages given for reading are different for Academic and General Training. The reading test has three sections in the order of increasing difficulty. [...]
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