IELTS READING TEST - MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TIPS AND STRATEGY

This article will help you answer multiple choice questions more effectively. Your job is to simply choose the correct answer from a list of possible choices.

IELTS READING TEST - SUMMARY COMPLETION QUESTIONS TIPS AND STRATEGY

In these kinds of questions you will be given a summary of information from the text and there will be some gaps in that summary.

You will either be given a list of words to fill the gaps with or asked to find the answers in the reading text. Your job is to insert some of the words from the list into the gaps, or if asked, to fill the gaps with words from the text. There will be more words in the list than required to fill the gaps.

IELTS READING TEST - MATCHING SENTENSE ENDINGS QUESTIONS TIPS AND STRATEGY

In this IELTS reading question you will be given a list of incomplete sentences with no endings and another list with possible endings. Your job is to match the incomplete sentences with the correct ending based on the reading text.

This is not one of the more common questions but should be studied all the same. You are being tested on your understanding of how the ideas in the sentences are connected to the main ideas in the reading text.

IELTS READING TEST - SENTENCE COMPLETION QUESTIONS TIPS AND STRATEGY

In this kind of question you will be given a number of sentences with gaps in them and asked to complete the sentences with words from the reading text.

These questions are as much vocabulary tests as they are reading tests because they require you to be aware of paraphrasing (using different words to repeat a sentence so that it has the same meaning) and synonyms (words with the same or very similar meanings).