Tagged: ielts reading

Strategies for the reading section

A sizable vocabulary is absolutely essential for success in the reading comprehension module. While learning words your focus must be on those words that are more likely to be found in academic text books....

True / False / Not Given Questions

These types of questions ask the students to compare the given statements to information in the passage and decide whether they agree or disagree with the information given in the passage or whether there...

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...

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...

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....

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...