Is the IELTS Reading section very challenging for you Cant finish all the readings and questions before the time is up In this lesson you will learn three approaches to the IELTS Reading section and their pros and cons The goal of this lesson is to help you finish the test on time without compromising your understanding of the readings Learn how to read less while answering more questions correctly After watching make sure to do the quiz to test your understanding Good luck on your again Welcome back to wwwengvidcom Im Adam Todays lesson is about IELTS As usual with IELTS lessons I will be speaking a little bit faster than normal Its good for your listening practice But if youre not taking the IELTS you can still listen and try to follow us as we go through this section
So lets begin Today Im going to look at the IELTS reading section Im going to look at three different approaches to tackling the IELTS reading section Students always ask me What should I do with the reading How do I do it How can I finish on time How can I answer more questions Right So Im going to give you three approaches three different ways to try to do the IELTS Okay Were going to look at three different ways Theyre completely different from each other
The most important thing I want to tell you before we start you have to know what works for you Okay One of these approaches will work for you the others may not Practice all three If youre comfortable with one and it seems to work for you and your score seems to be getting better stick with that one and practice that one Dont try to do all three each time Figure out which one works and just practice that one the most Okay
The most obvious one and the first one were going to talk about read the entire passage and then tackle the questions Now a few things to say good and bad about this approach So you have 20 minutes lets say that youre going to start from the first passage youre going to do about 17 minutes the second passage youre going to spend 20 minutes the last passage youre going to spend 23 24 25 minutes So you have to do this very fast
So can you read the entire passage and do the questions in that timeframe Okay Thats the question you must ask yourself Are you a fast reader Can you comprehend everything youre reading How is your vocabulary Things like this Some people they must read everything from beginning to end and then go to the questions But they can also keep they can retain the information theyve read so when they go to the questions they know where to go back and look for the answers
Now the good part about this is that you have all the information in your head once youve read the entire passage The bad part is that youre going to be reading the passage twice Okay Or not the whole passage but youre going to read big chunks of the passage twice Youll have read it the first time youll go to the questions and then youll be reading again to find the answers because youre looking for specific words now When you get to the questions sometimes its only one word difference from what you read in the passage
So do I recommend this Yes and no If youre a fast reader and you can comprehend then yes do that If youre not a fast reader then no dont do this Youll be wasting too much time and reading more than you need to
What Im going to do with these two approaches is show you how to read less So you dont need to read the entire passage you just need to read the areas that contain the answers to the questions
So the second approach go straight to the questions You look at the question First of all understand the type of the question Is it a multiple choice Is it a fill-in-the-blank like a summary Are you looking for like headings for each paragraph Are you looking for the title Etc Figure out what youre looking for read the question carefully pick out the keywords in the question or the key idea in the question and then scan the passage Dont read the passage Just quickly look everywhere for where that information ought to be
